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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

I illustrated several books in 2004 (via the Beehive Illustration Agency). One of them was PLANET DINOSAUR, by Steve Parker and Miles Kelly Publishing. I will post the five main paintings (acrylic on card) throughout today. Last is the Late Cretaceous.

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[bobnichollsart]

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

I illustrated several books in 2004 (via the Beehive Illustration Agency). One of them was PLANET DINOSAUR, by Steve Parker and Miles Kelly Publishing. I will post the five main paintings (acrylic on card) throughout today. Fourth is the Early Cretaceous.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology

[bobnichollsart]

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

I illustrated several books in 2004 (via the Beehive Illustration Agency). One of them was PLANET DINOSAUR, by Steve Parker and Miles Kelly Publishing. I will post the five main paintings (acrylic on card) throughout today. Third is the Late Jurassic.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology

[bobnichollsart]

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

I illustrated several books in 2004 (via the Beehive Illustration Agency). One of them was PLANET DINOSAUR, by Steve Parker and Miles Kelly Publishing. I will post the five main paintings (acrylic on card) throughout today. Second is the Early-Mid Jurassic.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology

[bobnichollsart]

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

I illustrated several books in 2004 (via the Beehive Illustration Agency). One of them was PLANET DINOSAUR, by Steve Parker and Miles Kelly Publishing. I will post the five main paintings (acrylic on card) throughout today. First is the Triassic.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology

[bobnichollsart]

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2004 I played with a book idea but never took it to a publisher. I did 100 draft drawings for the proposal (never completed), I'll post a few throughout today. Fourth is Sarcosuchus.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2004 I played with a book idea but never took it to a publisher. I did 100 draft drawings for the proposal (never completed), I'll post a few throughout today. Third is Kronosaurus.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2004 I played with a book idea but never took it to a publisher. I did 100 draft drawings for the proposal (never completed), I'll post a few throughout today. Second is Stegosaurus.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology…

In 2004 I played with a book idea but never took it to a publisher. I did 100 draft drawings for the proposal (never completed), I'll post a few throughout today. First one is Tanystropheus.

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Two quite different murals from 2004. The top painting is on the wall of a lab at the University of Manchester and depicts a Carboniferous coal forest. I'm quite sure it includes the world's first reconstruction of Megarachne as a eurypterid because I received a tip off before a paper redescribing Megarachne as a eurypterid was published. Below is a more playful multimedia mural in the Earth Science department in the University of Bristol. The Bristol mural has gone but I believe the coal forest is still in good condition in Manchester.

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Another acrylic painting from 2004. It was commissioned by a publisher for a book called "Being There," but it was never published (as far as I know!). It features Stegosaurus and Diplodocus.

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2004 I built my first large model, a life-size juvenile Iguanodon for Lancashire Museum. It was a near vertical learning curve. Two of the biggest mistakes I made were 1) using polyester resin in a poorly ventilated area and almost poisoning my housemates and neighbours, and 2) rolling around unprotected in chopped strand fibreglass and spreading the skin irritant through my clothes, furniture, and bedding. However, in the end, despite some anatomical mistakes, the painted cast was good quality.

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

An acrylic painting on card, from 2004. Titled "The Wreck," it depicts a submerged sauropod carcass and a collection of small marine reptiles. I painted it for my friend and marine reptile expert Richard Forrest.

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

...and into 2004. Although I always prioritised palaeo-projects, I was never going to pass on an opportunity to illustrate some DUNE covers, by Frank Herbert. This artwork was my cover illustration for THE GREAT DUNE TRILOGY (a large volume that included DUNE, DUNE MESSIAH, and CHILDREN OF DUNE). I also illustrated GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE, HERETICS OF DUNE, and CHAPTER HOUSE DUNE. The crazy thing was, the publisher accepted and published my colour draft drawings and paid me in full anyway!

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

One of the most fun projects in 2003 was a series of greyscale murals I painted at the University of Liverpool. They went all around one of the palaeo-labs and represented the Cambrian, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian and Triassic, Cretaceous, Neogene, and Quaternary.

Oh, and the face of the ice-age hunter was a portrait of the head of department at the time. We thought he would like being in the painting but it didn't go down well at all.

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Just a mock-up of an X-rayed Dippy, from 2003.

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2003 I decided that if I was daft enough to limit myself to palaeoart, I should be able to supply clients with 2 and 3D reconstructions. Adding 3D work to my services would increase the number of potential commissions considerably. I started with Dippy the Diplodocus, at the London NHM. The late Angela Milner was kind enough to meet with me to discuss Dippy, and I sculpted most of the model, but I never finished it.

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