Artist/illustrator specializing in large-scale murals of prehistoric animals and landscapes | Lead muralist Blue Rhino Studio | RISD alum |
#paleoart
#sciart
Just wild to me that it's been 10 YEARS since I started working on this set of graphics and
#illustrations
for the Ancient Ozarks
#NaturalHistoryMuseum
....looking back some of this information has aged well, some not so much....
It’s official, we at
#bluerhinostudio
are lucky enough to be working on a lifesize
@SUEtheTrex
, coming soon to a museum near you! All hail the majestic murderbird!!!
Amazing new research in the international journal Nature—using environmental DNA, the team was able to gain incredible details of a 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland—and with my illustration on the cover!! ❤️🦣
My new ice age project features a herd of extinct North American Wild Horses—ancestor to all caballine horses we know today! Horse color genetics are fascinating and I’m playing around with some plausible alternative coat colors—what’s your favorite color scheme?
Ready for round 2? After some new info (thanks SS!) I revamped my ice age horse color chart to be more accurate (by recent-ish available research anyway). What do you think?
Advances in imaging technology have let scientists study dinosaur brains, offering insights into how intelligent these creatures were and how they experienced the world.
Learn more in our September issue:
Super COOL new steppe mammoth study dropped today in Nature! Oldest sequenced DNA ever, cold adaptations! Wonderful stuff by an incredibly talented team, along with a wintry illustration by yours truly. ❤️🦣
These really fired me up to work on
#paleoart
as much as I could, though I still work on a lot of modern
#naturalhistory
projects, even now (still love it too)
There were a series of 12 for this museum, each is set up near a full
#bluerhinostudio
diorama or real fossil mount, spanning the
#cenozoic
. This was one of my favorite projects I've been lucky enough to work on. 🎨🥰🦣
Decided to post some of my shorthand notes on American Lion (Panthera atrox). I often do these kind of things in the margins of stuff but I don’t usually post them...since they’re not to be taken literally and are mostly for my own reference.
@anatotitan
I wouldn’t say “favorite” but occasionally I think I’m not terrible at this stuff....actual favorite muralists run more along the lines of old natural history diorama artists—James Perry Wilson, Carl Rungius, Francis Lee Jaques...
Truly the highlight of my year to be awarded the Lanzendorf National Geographic Paleoart Prize in 2D! A huge thank you to everyone at
@SVP_vertpaleo
for the honor! (And of course the
@RoyalAlberta
for the opportunity to create their gigantic Pleistocene hall mural!)
Happy
#FossilFriday
! I ended up going with reddish pelage colors for this
#smilodon
....bonus points if you guess the modern feline the colors are inspired by....
A unique spotted zebra foal was first seen on the Maasai Mara Reserve Kenya, by a Maasai guide on the weekend. Named Tira, this zebra will be a star! A very unusual and completely beautiful genetic mutation!
Photo credits: frankliuphotography photo 2&3
RS Photography: photos 1&4
I don’t think people acknowledge how awesome fallow deer are enough, they have stunning antlers and a neat pattern. Not to mention they *might* (heavy emphasis here) be the last of the Megacerines
We see depictions of T. Rex in action mode so often it was really difficult to figure out an appropriate “resting” pose; I tried 9 different versions of
@SUEtheTrex
before we settled on the final for the
@FieldMuseum
mural!
My work from
#PicturingthePastSVP
is featured in this article for NAT-FREAKIN-GEO you guys!! And I’m quoted quite a bit as well!!! Couldn’t be happier—Amazing!!! How dinosaurs are brought back to life—through art via
@NatGeoScience
Happy
#FossilFriday
! I Encountered a decomposing adult T. rex in a Bavarian forest the other day - including an easily missed 'Easter egg' (a dromeosaurid?). Wonderful to see a display like this; the autumn mood & litter made it even better! (DinoMuseum Altmühltal)
It's a bird, it's a plane, no... it's a Quetzalcoatlus, who will soar to the Science Museum soon! 🛫 Share your
#NationalFossilDay
love by telling us which ancient plant or animal is your favorite ⤵️
Well my Scotty the T.rex illustration found it’s way into the (digital) pages of National Geographic! Everyone follow
@WScottPersons
and
@royalsaskmuseum
for more Scotty-related news!! So exciting, more T.rex to come....
@DreadfulK
and I finished patching and painting the seams of the
#quetzalcoatlus
pair, and now they are all tucked into place at their new home
@sciencemuseummn
! I hope I can visit them again soon when the expanded dino hall is open. ❤️🦖
I don’t know how but these are the best pictures I took of the Antarctosuchus polyodon while it was still in the shop.....really need to work on that. 🧐😩
There she is! Our newest woolly mammoth produced by
#bluerhinostudio
for
@theboxplymouth
—she’s more of a blonde this time, and I just love how those dreadlocks turned out
It's taken me four years of work, to finish the new natural history gallery at the
@theboxplymouth
. It is full of stories about climate change, extinction and biodiversity loss displaying 6948 specimens.
Went to
@labreatarpits
today and got to see
@BZaiken
’s work with Blue Rhino Studios!
Was awe-inspiring and gorgeous sculpted, illustrated, and fabricated work.
Highlighting the Blue Rhino Studios (
@BZaiken
and heaps of other insanely talented people in the team), because there is blowing it out of the park and this -
A perfectly preserved woolly mammoth trunk has gone on display in Tokyo this week along with other ice age animals recovered from the Siberian permafrost
#MammothExhibition
Amy Balanoff & I have a piece out on what it was like to be a dinosaur - how did they perceive the world in terms of smell, vision, hearing, and cognitive capacity. We are thrilled that
@BZaiken
created this beautiful illustration for our article. Thanks to
@katewong
for editing!
Mammoth Tusk Reveals Ancient Mammal's Travels via
@sciam
In case you missed this cutie I illustrated for the last volume of Scientific American (v325, i6)...🦣🥰
Yup, it’s the biggest digital mural I’ve ever done—both in physical scale and GB....she’s a monster....reveal coming soon. 🤓😉
#paleoart
#digitalpainting
Super stoked to have visited the Antarctic Dinosaurs exhibition yesterday
@nhmla
if you’re in
#LA
I would recommend a visit! First up, not a Dino but this rather lovely Antarctosuchus polyodon! What an old smoothie!
#dinosaur
#exhibition
Um, yeah, that’s a 3D virtual model 😱 Part of our continuing effort to get critical specimens online, designed & led by three undergrads: a Classics major, a History major & a Biology major. That’s not the start of a joke, it’s collaboration across the liberal arts!
My big secret project is done and INSTALLED! A monster 60-foot-by-13-foot digital painting of Pleistocene fauna for Ice Age Fossil Hall at the Royal Alberta Museum!
#paleoart
#digitalart
Great to get a preview of
@theboxplymouth
today, seriously impressive - you are going to love it! Not allowed to share photos yet, but everyone knows there's one of these there right?
Never saw this before! Check out how these boar tusks can circle back and wipe out other teeth in the jaw as they grow!
@FieldMuseum
#osteology
#anatomy
Feathered dinosaur palaeoart hack: rhea have some nice dino legs hiding under their wings. They also are pretty good overall reference for some flightless coelurosaurs where the feathers around the arms bare semiplumes, but the rest of the body more plumaceous feathering.
Dinosaur/bird wings are tricky for a lot of artists. I have wanted to put together a handy little graphic like this for a while. Hopefully this make sense to you guys.