My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (Dr Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Mire Siren," showing a family group of Utahraptors becoming trapped in quicksand.

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Zooming into my 2022 Nature cover, featuring Tupandactylus. This painting was commissioned by Cincotta et al for their paper describing multiple feathers and their colours from a pterosaur fossil!

My next Canadian province is Manitoba with its provincial animal the bison and flower the crocus (Anemone patens) in this linocut. The block was inked 'à la poupée' (with different colours, pale violet, umber and brown, in different areas) and printed by hand on lovely Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper.

It's no mystery how the bison could symbolize this prairie province. Manitoba is one of the few places where 1/n

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's my 2022 Nature cover featuring Tupandactylus. This painting was commissioned by Cincotta et al for their paper describing multiple feathers and their colours from a pterosaur fossil!

Abdomen is done, mostly. The rest of the "space" is mostly digestive glands (I think?), which I'll add once I see how this works printed/painted.

The weird tabs on the book lungs/spinnerets, are openings for me to put paint into the cavities. We'll see how it works!

Montanazhdarcho minor, a basal azhdarchid from the two medicine formation

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "Condemning the host," showing a prehistoric wasp (Xenomorphia) injecting an egg into a fly pupa.

Happy birthday to Wilhem Röntgen (1845-1923), the German physicist who discovered x-rays and earned the Nobel Prize for physics in 1901. I’ve depicted him in this thermochromic portrait at work, studying this mysterious, newly discovered, invisible form of light, based on a photograph of him in his lab, using a Crookes tube to produce x-rays. The form of the print mimics the nature of his discovery -

#MastoArt #linocut #sciart #Roentgen #physics #histstm #xrays #printmaking

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The lady looks on," showing male theropods lekking to impress a female.

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Some zooms from my 2022 painting of a Thescelosaurus (front lit by the low Sun from the west) amidst the Tanis devastation caused by the end Cretaceous Chicxulub asteroid impact. Also features are Triceratops and Quetzalcoatlus.

Hello Mastodon! Here's a first project: a series of illustrations for #Tolkien et les sciences, published by Belin

Classification of dragons, phylogenetic tree of humanoid species in Middle-earth, comparative anatomy of elephants and oliphants... In short, scientific illustrations like no other!

See my portfolio: www.dianerottner.com/tolkien-et-les-sciences

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's a 2022 painting of a Thescelosaurus (front lit by the low Sun from the west) amidst the Tanis devastation caused by the end Cretaceous Chicxulub asteroid impact (the orange glow from the south). Also features are Triceratops and Quetzalcoatlus.

I saw the cutest photo of Charadrius hiaticula, a common ringed plover, and I just had to paint it. Such a sweet little floof!

Original photo credit to @falterwelten #birds #watercolor #MastoArt #SciArt

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "His Best Moves," showing a male Confuciusornis showing off to a female.

Next in my Canada series: the Yukon. The symbols of the Yukon, its official bird, the Raven & its flower, fireweed cover the hand-carved map of the Yukon in this linocut. The block was inked ‘à la poupée’ (with different colours, pink-magenta and black in different areas) and printed by hand on lovely Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper.

The raven is the largest member of the crow family

I hope one day to visit!
#linocut #printmaking #Canada #Yukon #raven #fireweed #mapart #sciart #MastoArt

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2022, the Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dean R Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Formidable Opportunists," an Allosaurus pack tearing apart a rotting Camarasaurus.

leidyosuchus canadensis, a stem-#alligator from the dinosaur park formation of alberta's late cretaceous

mesodma formosa, a mid sized multituberculate from the latest cretaceous and earliest Paleocene of north america