Announcing Archosaurs

I (along with some folk) have started work on what amounts to my second art show. Very much untentatively titled: The Archosauria, it will, I hope, be a substantial overview of animals belonging to this most diverse group.

More so than my first show (The Dinosauria), it will be a journey, even with the help.

The show will run 9 August 2008 through 12 September 2008 at Vagabond Blues 1 October through 31 October 2008 at Sidestreet Cafe, Downtown Anchorage (address to follow). Hope to see you there.

Migrating Grumblecakes

Ah, the new blog smell.  This will be, I think, the last stop between Sacramento and Alpha Centauri.

I'll explain everything later. Meantime...

Monsters, Johnny, Monsters from the Id

Nshalya-Uduuluuhuud:

_Tyrannosaurus_ galorosmorgasboard...

The chief reason to draw Tyrannosaurs well is to show them being stomped all over by Pachyrhinosaurus.

But first, I must get to the point where I'm doing them well. Here's a smattering of the better ones I've done:




(16 Oct 2007)



(Interestingly, the above image was nicked by a local tabloid without asking for permission. I do give permission, but I also ask that one asks before snagging my stuff and running with it. And I do respond favorably to offers of money.)


Jacky Lantern:
No explanation needed, I hope.


(30 Oct 2007)

Just a random, unfinished sketch:


(9 Oct 2007)


Though this came out a bit weird, I kinda like it:

(Drawn with purplish ink and lots and lots of little lines, 10 Feb 2006.)

Huh. Looks a bit on the Brian Froud side of things to my mind.

*snap!* Chamberlain rex!

I've never seen a purple T. rex ... until I drew one in purple ink, no sketching, no pencil underneath, no white-out, no erasing, and no chance I could have started the damned animal somewhere on the page so I could fit the rest of it on the same page. (Purplish ink, 10 February 2006).

Astute viewers will note the feathers.

Yes, feathers on all the rexes! Why? Two words: phylogenetic bracketing.

Gif for you, because it was smaller than the JPEG, and better-looking.





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Great Cats

Drawn from the taxidermy mounts at the Alaska Museum of Natural History:





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Gavials Galore

A couple of gavial studies, for an upcoming show on the Archosauria:





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_Spinosaurus aegypticus_

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