Public domain Troodon formosus silhouette for PhyloPic. Free for use anywhere.

by cubelight

The tyrannosaur Tarbosaurus is the “Alarming lizard hero,” the stuff of legend and fear, and now mashed into a Warhol meme.

by cubelight

Trikeratos, product of biology and technology. If someone asked me what it meant, I suppose I’d say, “a fanciful expression of how technology can illuminate details of the distant past.”

But no one ever asks me that.

(A sequel, A Gloom of Duralumin Dragons, is here: http://www.redbubble.com/people/cubelight/works... )

The skeleton for this piece is based on photos taken of the Triceratops mount at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (I was attending SVP in 2008, and had the opportunity to take lots of photo reference).

Digital painting of _Platanista gangetica_ skull (Ganges River dolphin). Photoshop & Cintiq.

My mimicry of Warhol. Of course, instead of Marilyn as a subject, I chose to do the Tyrannosaurid _Tarbosaurus bataar_. Originally in color pencil, with color in Photoshop.

As featured on Boing Boing back in October 2011, this is the completed front piece for the Dinosaurs and Robots Show we had back in October (and then November) for Modern Dwellers in Anchorage.

Color variation of Good Hunting, a speedpaint from February 2011.

Creating scenes from deep time requires not only an understanding of the animal life of an era, but plant life as well.

Sketches of Mesezoic-era plants Zamia furfuracea (in purple) from a live specimen and Zingiber officinale from photographs (in green).

Color and patterning idea for Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis.

The quills are pure speculation - but I think they're neat.

inspired this guy. He is also neat.

Speed painting of Lambeosaurus lambei - approximately 4 hours.

An ancient marine reptile from the Early to Late Triassic era based on John C. Merriam's reconstructions of Thalattosaurus from his 1905 book "The Thalattosauria".

A nearly complete articulated skeleton of a member of this clade was recently found in Southeast Alaska last May.

Displacer Beasts! Awwwwww! Mom looks tired.

C entry for alphabeasts: Carrion Crawler.

Bulette, which I'm still not certain I know how to pronounce, became my B entry for alphabeasts.

Anhkheg watercolor for the alphabeasts thing on Tumblr.

Rusty the rustymonster! Watercolor. I should really rescan this.