Showing posts with label paleoart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paleoart. Show all posts

Thursday, 18 November 2010

Pteraspis

The last for a while of all these devonian fish. At least until I get back to the subject...

Incidentally, it was hard trying to track down useful reference for contemporary seaweed species. I took a guess, but too wild a guess.

Groenlandaspis.

Another of the Devonian armoured fish genus, this one swimming in amongst a drowned forest.

A lot smaller in life than it might look here.

It's sometimes hard to think of a scale that won't be a wild anachronism.

Drepanaspis.












Placoderm, the Devonian armoured fish.

Wednesday, 17 November 2010

Paleoart - cephalaspis

Two cephalaspis making their way towards something under the sand... warm, clear tropical waters.

Calamite forest

This image took way too long to finish with me moving and then getting distracted by work during the course of it. It's a vision of when the once magnificent "horsetail"  order dominated landscapes.

Seems a  shame to think of the only remaining genus "Equisteum" so shrunken and the bain of some gardeners.

Tuesday, 16 November 2010

hello blogosphere

It's paleoart time. I find it hard to resist the giant mesozoic predators. Including enormous cretaceous monsters such as this Sarcosuchus.














While it's always compelling to draw something with quite so many teeth, in the case of this artwork, it was actually the plants that I enjoyed painting best.