#robert nicholls

paleocreations:

Here is my new life-size model of #Ichthyostega for #Muse, Italy.

Bob Nicholls: paleocreations.com

Pliosaurs by Robert Nicholls |Follow on Tumblr.

1· Escaping the Odds     (Leicester New Walk Museum)
The first Liopleurodon attacked the Muraenosaurus from below and behind. In this ambush the Liopleurodon, a pliosaur, tore away half of a forelimb. But the smell of blood in the water attracts a second nearby Liopleurodon, and the following confrontation will allow the Muraenosaurus, a plesiosaur, to escape!. PRINTS

2· Leviathan     (Museum of Jurassic Marine Life)
The greatest predators in the Jurassic oceans were pliosaurs, some of which grew over 12m in length. Here an enormous Pliosaurus lunges forward to capture and swallow a Cryptoclidus whole. Above this attack are four large fish, called Pachycormus, and below swim ammonites, Pectinates, and a shoal of belemnites, Belemnoteuthis.PRINTS

3· Dancing Pliosaurs
At dusk, two pliosaurs dance while a third takes advantage of a pterosaur cleaning station. The pliosaurs and pterosaurs are no particular species; I just thought it was a nice idea that I hope to paint one day soon (in future I might try to make my sketches more species specific). And I realise the low sun may attract criticism because of the sunset cliché, but I figure every place on Earth (except the poles) has a sunrise and a sunset every 24 hours so they are very frequent events.

4· Jurassic Red Tide     (Private commission)
A paleoartwork with an abstract expressionist twist! Here a Liopeurodon ferox is swimming amongst a bloom of red algae near a coastal coral reef. This was rendered using photographs, digital painting, and an acrylic painted scale model of Liopleurodon.PRINTS

paleocreations:

How Bob Nicholls produced the official artwork of “Sophie,” the world’s most complete Stegosaurus, for the London Natural History (2014).

Continuing with the paleoart book recommendationrequest: 

I was going to make a proper photoset with some pics from “Dinosaur Art, The World’s Greatest Paleoart”, which truly is a great book illustrated by nearly all my heroes (really, it’s like the best paleoartists went all Avengers Initiative and made a book), but I guess you’ve already seen a lot of the pictures here on Tumblr, so I think It’ll be best if I just include a link to Darren Naish’s review (in case my stupidly-intense fanboying right now doesn’t convince you and you need a real review). And a link to buy the book.