tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32120295677597620452024-03-13T07:21:47.555-07:00HimmapaanensisDinosaur DelineationsNateehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869685234493116483noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3212029567759762045.post-34024150450250224822012-10-12T18:17:00.000-07:002012-10-12T18:17:15.236-07:00Floof!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This might hopefully grow into a page of studies, but I thought I would share this as it is now.</div>
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Also trying out this watermarking lark.</div>
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Nateehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869685234493116483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3212029567759762045.post-23133896991098069412012-08-14T12:44:00.001-07:002012-08-14T12:44:36.266-07:00Maiasaura Egg<div style="text-align: center;">
An altogether far gentler interlude to the recent posts. </div>
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I recently made this 'card' for a dear friend of mine to welcome her new baby daughter. </div>
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A dinosaur egg, which, when the tabs at the base are pulled, opens to reveal...</div>
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...A little <i>Maiasaura</i> hatchling.</div>
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The wonderful <a href="http://babbletrish.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Trish</a> made my day when she first gave her characteristic <a href="https://twitter.com/Babbletrish/status/233020038813216770" target="_blank">response</a>. </div>
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This one perhaps has a slightly personal tinge, for those who recall <a href="http://himmapaanensis.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/portrait-series.html" target="_blank">why</a>.</div>
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Nateehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869685234493116483noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3212029567759762045.post-45557197182582389222012-08-06T12:35:00.000-07:002013-09-10T10:11:25.829-07:00Squish<div style="text-align: center;">
More spleen-venting of the saurian kind. A follow-up to <a href="http://himmapaanensis.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/soul-of-gentleness.html" target="_blank">the T. rex</a> in the 'Soul of Gentleness' series. </div>
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It alarms me slightly to think of the extent to which this series might possibly grow. </div>
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The Higgs boson is all very well. I think I should prefer the Hugs Bison, however.
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Not a dinosaur, but this was received quite unexpectedly well elsewhere that I thought I may as well post it here, too. Besides, I rather think the readers of this blog would appreciate it at any rate.
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I am the very soul of gentleness, as everybody knows (cough). But if you push the right buttons...</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Such as certain quarters on DeviantArt who fail to understand what 'illustration' is and call it by a certain dreaded 'f' word, for instance. Ahem...</span></div>
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A birthday card for another friend and <a href="http://www.dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php" target="_blank">Dinosaur Toy Forum</a> member, <a href="http://www.xing.com/profile/Andre_Mursch" target="_blank">Dr. Andre Mursch</a>, biologist and Research Associate at <a href="http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ecoevo/" target="_blank">Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Dept. of Evolutionary Ecology and Animal Biodiversity</a>.</div>
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His saurian portrait is a <i>Therizinosaurus </i>(yes, <a href="http://himmapaanensis.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/as-regular-readers-will-have-noted.html" target="_blank">another one</a>. There are a number of therizinosaurs on the DTF, it seems). Also present is a <i>Dynastes granti</i> beetle, who is supposed to signify Andre's love of insects (among a host of other things) as much as because I fancied drawing it.</div>
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As regular readers will have noted, often, the smallest seed of a picture will plant itself in my head from the vaguest of references, and I would find myself unable to resist realising it in illustrative form.</div>
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So it is with this drawing, which perhaps will only have any real significance for the members of the <a href="http://www.dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php" target="_blank">Dinosaur Toy Forum</a>, but which I nevertheless hope will afford you a moment's visual entertainment.</div>
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Stefan (the <i>Therizinosaurus</i>), one of the long-standing members of the forum staff (and Dinosaur Toy Blog <a href="http://www.dinotoyblog.com/about-the-authors/libraraptor/" target="_blank">author</a>), has decided to step down from the team. And although he still remains as a regular member on the forum, the news was a rather sad one. Here, the team says goodbye. They are, from left; <a href="http://www.plesiosauria.com/" target="_blank">Adam</a> (<i>Rhomaleosaurus</i> -- who, by the way, is able to swim through the air much in the manner of the whales in the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGZeT07rqlU" target="_blank"><i>Pines of Rome</i> sequence</a> from <i>Fantasia 2000</i>), our forum admin and plesiosaur expert, whom you've <a href="http://himmapaanensis.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/dtf-aceos.html" target="_blank">encountered here</a> before; <a href="http://seppenator.deviantart.com/" target="_blank">Lisa</a> (<i>Coelophysis</i> -- scaled up, because this is all in fun); <a href="http://www.dinotoyblog.com/about-the-authors/bokisaurus/" target="_blank">Ashley</a> (<i>Amargasaurus</i>); yours truly (<i>Diplodocus</i>) and <a href="http://blade-of-the-moon.deviantart.com/" target="_blank">Chris</a> (<i>Allosaurus</i>), whom we also welcome as the newest recruit to the moderating team.</div>
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I'm almost tempted to begin this post with 'I r a srs palaeo artist too,' for reasons yet unclear even to myself.</div>
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<i>Thecodontosaurus</i> (with sphenodont). Sepia ink on Saunders Waterford hot pressed watercolour paper; 150 x 280mm. <span style="font-size: x-small;">I've decided that her name is 'Thesis'. Yes.</span></div>
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This was originally conceived as my entry for Bristol Dinosaur Project's <a href="http://www.thebristoldinosaurproject.org.uk/?q=node/46" target="_blank">Thecodontosaurus Illustration Competition</a>. Sadly (though perhaps predictably), I failed to make the competition deadline. My attempt to rally a few palaeo-minded friends into entering also bore no fruit, alas. It would have been lovely to see familiar names among the entrants.</div>
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My many thanks to Jon Tennant of <i><a href="http://fossilsandshit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Green Tea and Velociraptors</a></i> for very kindly supplying me with the <i>Thecodontosaurus</i> paper (Adam M. Yates (2003)) and Dr. Heinrich Mallison of <i><a href="http://dinosaurpalaeo.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Dinosaurpalaeo</a></i> for his input during the progress. I feel like quite the grown-up palaeo artist.</div>
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">So when I recently sent him a tin of loose leaf green tea (some very fine sencha) to supplement his already limitless stock, I had to include this sketch of his saurian portrait in the accompanying note.</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Last June, a small gathering of a few members of the <a href="http://dinotoyforum.proboards.com/index.cgi" target="_blank">Dinosaur Toy Forum</a> (which readers may recall my mentioning in a <a href="http://himmapaanensis.blogspot.com/2012/01/portrait-series.html" target="_blank">previous entry</a>) took place at the <a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Natural History Museum</a> in London. Prior to the event, I asked those who would be attending what their favourite dinosaur (or prehistoric animal) was, with an aim to surprising each of them with a small gift. As it happened, I ended up staying awake the whole of the night before the meet-up, feverishly finishing off these <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist_trading_cards#ACEO:_art_card_editions_and_originals" target="_blank">ACEO</a>s.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From left: Marc (who surely needs no introduction), Andrew (from New Jersey, USA), me (<i>kill it with fire!</i>), Lea with her boyfriend, Jasper (from the Netherlands), Dr. Adam Stuart Smith (<a href="http://www.plesiosauria.com/" target="_blank">palaeontologist and marine reptile specialist extraordinaire</a> and founder of the DTF and blog -- I can scarcely thank him enough) and Rob (who most helpfully distinguished himself with a carnation 'buttonhole' and a copy of <i><a href="http://www.prehistorictimes.com/" target="_blank">Prehistoric Times</a></i>). An extra special thanks to Marlies, Adam's girlfriend, who was also present and who took this picture of us (looking, in <a href="http://www.dinotoyblog.com/about-the-authors/libraraptor/" target="_blank">Stefan</a>'s words, 'like a bunch of random scientists about to enter a time machine'. Though 'a bunch of scientists and one clueless wannabe artist' would be more accurate...). She is next to Adam in this picture below!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1778342/" target="_blank">The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore</a></i> (2011) won the richly deserved award for Best Animated Short at this year's Oscars. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">'Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, the Wizard of Oz, and a love of books, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story.' (From IMDB)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Why, no, I'm not <a href="http://himmapaanensis.blogspot.com/2011/09/airing.html" target="_blank">obsessed</a> with <a href="http://himmapaanensis.blogspot.com/2011/09/hadrosaurs-for-win.html" target="_blank">this hadrosaur</a>, whatever gave you that idea?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This page in my sketchbook was the victim of an accident with my bottle of sepia ink. It did, however, add much to the appearance of this being an actual page of field sketches. I ran with the idea and added a few notes. Perhaps the messy spattering was because I needed to get out of Ruslan's way in a hurry...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Nateehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869685234493116483noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3212029567759762045.post-58831173819850544482012-01-29T04:05:00.000-08:002012-01-29T09:15:15.120-08:00The Portrait Series<div style="text-align: center;">I have the <a href="http://www.dinotoyblog.com/" target="_blank">Dinosaur Toy Blog</a> to thank for a great many things. Since joining its <a href="http://dinotoyforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?" target="_blank">official forum</a> about a year and a half ago, the latter has been instrumental in rekindling my dormant passion for dinosaurs and prehistoric life, has prompted me to resume drawing saurians in earnest once more after many years, and has led me to this corner of cyberspace inhabited by the palaeo-community, eventually leading to the creation of this nonsense of a blog. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have also made a number of friends there, some of whom have become dearer than ever to me, which perhaps was the very best thing of all. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">This ongoing (though highly intermittent) portrait series was the result of my having begun a thread asking the members to declare 'What dinosaur are you?' </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There is no mystery at all as to which dinosaur the member 'MightyJPTrex' sees himself as. The presence of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie" target="_blank">Andrew Carnegie</a> next to him is an indication of his <a href="http://www.carnegiemnh.org/" target="_blank">place of employment</a>. The money bags are my own tongue-in-cheek reference to his collection of the very finest high-end dinosaur models and collectibles. He and Carnegie are being photographed by forum moderator and official blog author, 'Boki', whose highly distinctive and professional photographs furnish many a forum thread and continually draw compliments from its members. He is, of course, an <i>Amargasaurus</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I daresay the readers of this blog must be no stranger to my good friend Marc Vincent, co-author of <i><a href="http://chasmosaurs.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs</a> </i>(and yet another Dino Toy Blog author)<i>. </i>It is thanks to his and David Orr's kindness that my saurian offerings have received notice from those who may not otherwise have stumbled upon them. Marc is a <i>Deinonychus</i> and this portrait was his birthday card from 2010. He is also particularly fond of magpies.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And this is what happened when the last three subjects had the good fortune to convene one day. Chris visited London on <strike>vacation</strike> holiday in May, 2011, and Marc and I met up with him at London's <a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Natural History Museum</a>. It should be noted that none of us are properly in scale here for several artistic reasons, not least because Marc would have had to be drawn very tiny indeed. I have grown increasingly discontented with this illustration (with my execution of it, not with the subject matter), and am rather hoping to re-draw this scene one day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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