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Bob Nicholls Art@bobnichollsart.bsky.social |
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Full-time palaeo-reconstruction artist. If it's dead & long gone, I'll bring it back to life. You will have seen my art in a book, a museum, or on TV somewhere ...
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2011 I created four digital composite illustrations for the refurbished fossil gallery at Leicester New Walk Museum. Here are some close-ups of the Cetiosaurus (the "Rutland Dinosaur").
#PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #SciComm #SciArt #JurassicWorld
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2011 I created four digital composite illustrations for the refurbished fossil gallery at Leicester New Walk Museum. Here are some Cetiosaurus (the "Rutland Dinosaurs") feeding near a lake.
#PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #SciComm #SciArt #JurassicWorld
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😆 Very good! I will be posting this artwork soon, as a part of my 25 years chronology. 👍
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I do indeed! Thank you.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2011 I created 4 digital composite illustrations for the Leicester New Walk Museum. Where possible, I used Photoshop to put my scale models into the compositions. Here's the Liopleurodon.
#PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #SciComm #SciArt #JurassicWorld #Liopleurodon
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Bob Nicholls Art
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2011 I created 4 composite illustrations for the Leicester New Walk Museum. For continuity, I used Photoshop to put my scale models into the compositions. Here are Liopleurodon & Muraenosaurus.
#PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #SciArt #JurassicWorld #Liopleurodon
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Bob Nicholls Art
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Back in 2011 I created 54 illustrations for the refurbished fossil gallery at Leicester New Walk Museum. Here is a scattering of the many pencil reconstructions.
#PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #SciComm #SciArt #JurassicWorld
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Bob Nicholls Art
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Back in 2011 I created 54 illustrations for the refurbished fossil gallery at Leicester New Walk Museum. Here is the Rutland Dinosaur (Cetiosaurus), it took six draft drawings to get the anatomy correct.
#PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #SciComm #SciArt #JurassicWorld
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Thank you.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2011 I created a bunch of models for the Leicester New Walk Museum. Here is the scale model of the marine crocodile, Metriorhynchus (the leathery skin armour was unwise, it is too easy to interpret as scutes).
#PaleoArt #Crocodile #SciComm #Metriorhynchus
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2011 I created a bunch of models for the Leicester New Walk Museum. Here is the scale model of the plesiosaur, Muraenosaurus.
#PaleoArt #Plesiosaur #SciComm #SciArt #JurassicWorld #Muraenosaurus
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2011 I created a bunch of models for the Leicester New Walk Museum. Here is the scale model of the ammonite, Kosmoceras.
#PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #SciComm #SciArt #JurassicWorld #Kosmoceras
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2011 I created a bunch of models for the Leicester New Walk Museum. Here is the scale model of the giant (up to 16m long) filter-feeding fish, Leedsichthys.
#PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #SciComm #SciArt #JurassicWorld #Leedsichthys
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Here's a photo of the scanned and animated model...
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2011 I created a bunch of models for the Leicester New Walk Museum. Here is the scale model of the ichthyosaur, Ophthalmosaurus.
#PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #SciComm #SciArt #JurassicWorld #Ichthyosaur
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The models I built in 2011 for Leicester New Walk Museum were scanned and animated for the interactive displays.
#PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #SciComm #SciArt #FossilFriday #Liopleurodon
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Bob Nicholls Art
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2011 I created a bunch of illustrations and models for the refurbishment of the Leicester New Walk Museum. First here is the scale model of Liopleurodon I built.
#PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #SciComm #SciArt #JurassicWorld #Liopleurodon
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
I built a fourth and final copy of my juvenile Iguanodon model in 2011. I've since destroyed the mould because it had become damaged and it had quite a few anatomical inaccuracies.
#PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Iguanodon #SciArt #JurassicWorld
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Two close-ups from my 2011 acrylic painting "Lion Cave." It features a family of cave lions (Panthera spelaea) and passing woolly mammoths (Mammothus primigenius).
#PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #IceAge #Mammoth #WoollyMammoth #Lions
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Here is the draft drawing...
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Bob Nicholls Art
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here is a 2011 acrylic painting of a family of cave lions (Panthera spelaea) and a passing herd of woolly mammoth (Mammothus primigenius).
#PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #IceAge #Mammoth #WoollyMammoth #Lions
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A few photos from an exhibition of my work at the Gloucester Museum and Art Gallery (summer 2011).
#PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #JurassicWorld #SciArt #SciComm
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2011 a bunch of artists were commissioned to create some dinosaur stamp designs for the Royal Mail. Here's my "awesomebro" Baryonyx design.
#PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Baryonyx #StampCollecting #stamps #JurassicWorld
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2011 a bunch of artists were commissioned to create dinosaur stamp designs for the Royal Mail. It eventually came down to me Vs the great John Sibbick... & he won. Here is my Polacanthus design.
#PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #StampCollecting #stamps #JurassicWorld
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You've not heard of the famous "fossil bucket and brush of old Bristol town"?
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Another view angle...
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Bob Nicholls Art
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Here's my Giraffatitan having a wash outside my workshop.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Into 2011 with a model of Giraffatitan (82cm tall). Sculpted in 3 pieces, the SuperSculpy was oven baked before assembly. It stands by my coffee machine, outside my studio, & he's watching me!
#PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Giraffatitan #Brachiosaurus #JurassicWorld
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here is the last post from 2010, a sketch of two Spinosaurus (with out of date anatomical proportions) at an underwater cleaning station. To stay submerged, they've bitten onto the branches of a fallen tree.
#PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Spinosaurus #JurassicWorld
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2010 sketch of two giant ammonites (Parapuzosia seppenradensis) investigating the dead & bloated carcass of a juvenile Telmatosaurus. There are also lots of little fish, a few sharks, & crinoids growing on the shells.
#Sharks #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Ammonites
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2010 sketch of doom. An abnormally long and hot drought has decimated a once green environment and now the countless corpses have brought disease to the survivors.
#SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
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Thanks. I wish I had time to do some similar sketches these days! 👍
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2010 acrylic painting, of Mississippian (the first half of the Carboniferous) fish and crinoids. I've lost the fish species but the crinoids are Abrotocrinus, Dizygocrinus, Dorycrinus, and Decadocrinus.
#SciArt #PaleoArt #Sharks #Crinoids #JurassicWorld
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Yeah, I can see it from both sides.
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Cheers, thank you. 😀
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2010 sketch of two dancing Quetzalcoatlus. I never decided if it was two males showing off or a male and female courtship. You can choose.
#SciArt #PaleoArt #Pterosaurs #FossilFriday #JurassicWorld
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Two 2010 sketches of Styracosaurus. Top is a show-off male embellishing his head spikes with a fallen branch. Bottom is a polycephalic (two-headed) Styracosaurus that has made it to adulthood.
#SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #FossilFriday #JurassicWorld
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2010 sketch of a sauropod with growths on its head and neck, caused by palaeo-papilloma virus.
#SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
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I simply don't have the time to build maquettes often, but they can be a huge help when planning a composition.
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Thanks, building the maquette really helped with that. 👍
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's the production process for "Waterspout Victim," a digital composite painting (not A.I.) of a Mosasaurus left high and dry. It started with a thumbnail sketch, then a maquette.
#SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Mosasaurus #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here is "Waterspout Victim," a digital composite painting (not A.I.) of a Mosasaurus left high and dry after being sucked out of the ocean and dumped on the edge of a beach.
#SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Mosasaurus #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2010 sketch of a beaten up old tyrannosaur with a dragonfly on his nose.
#SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
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This has been a common response. 👍
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2010 sketch of a baby therizinosaur with cyclopia (alobar holoprosencephaly), a congenital disorder characterised by one eye.
#SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2010 sketch of a young male Adasaurus attempting to catch and kill a Mononykus. However, the Mononykus flock escape by leaping high before scattering in all directions.
#SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2010 sketch of an albino male dromaeosaur (left) showing off to a bunch of females. He has chosen his spot carefully, in the moonlight, on top of a standing sauropod rib.
#SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2010 sketch of 5 male Anchiornis (left) competing for the attention of a female (right), by showing off their plumage. Halfway between the males and female is a confused gynandromorph (half male, half female).
#SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #JurassicPark
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2010 sketch of a "High and Dry" Sauropelta.
#SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
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There were two, Akmonistion and Stethacanthus.
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