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Category: Paleoart Gallery

Love in the Time of Centrosaurs?

Paleoart Gallery December 31, 2020 by David Orr

Happy New Year! Here’s one last paleoart piece for 2020, Centrosaurus Canyon. I’ve had this slowly gestating for a while and finally wrapped it up this month. Any piece that takes long enough ends up being reworked from the ground up a few times, and this one evolved considerably. The concept is a bull Centrosaurus …

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My Paleoart Year

Paleoart Gallery December 8, 2020December 7, 2020 by David Orr

2020’s been a weird one, but I have managed to create some paleoart. I don’t write much about my own work, so I thought it would be fun to round up what I’ve been up to in this post. Hope you enjoy! First up is my newest one. I was very excited to see this …

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Invertefest: The Paleoart Gallery

Paleoart Gallery August 29, 2020August 29, 2020 by David Orr

From August 21-23, researchers and admirers of invertebrates celebrated them by flooding Twitter with photos and art under the hashtag #Invertefest. It also resulted in nearly 3,000 observations recorded at iNaturalist. As promised, here’s a collection of paleoart shared on the tag! Please click through to follow and see more from these artists. also reposting …

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Cropped view of an illustrated creek bed in the Permian Bromacker ecosystem of Germany, featuring a paleodictyoperid insect and roachoids.

Invertefest is coming!

Announcements Paleoart Gallery August 3, 2020August 28, 2020 by David Orr

Invertefest is a periodic event begun on Twitter to celebrate the wonders of invertebrates through photos, videos, and art. Begun by Kelly Brenner, Maureen Berg, and Franz Anthony, the next incarnation of the event will take place on August 21-23, 2020. Franz contacted me because he was interested in getting some paleo-folk involved, so I …

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Flesh to Stone to Flesh: the Tattoos of Glendon Mellow

Paleoart Gallery August 6, 2019September 17, 2019 by David Orr

Combine a fascination with the spectacular lifeforms that once haunted the Earth with the common human desire to decorate one’s flesh, and you wind up with a lot of people walking around with fossil-inspired tattoos. Glendon Mellow, the artist and social media marketing pro known for putting wings on trilobites, has done his fair share …

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The Big One: Christoph Hoppenbrock’s Massive Palaeoart

Illustration Museums Paleoart Gallery July 16, 2019July 17, 2019 by Marc Vincent
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Pot-bellied T. rex vs. Jurassic PArk T. rex

When Dinosaurs Attac

Paleoart Gallery October 4, 2018October 16, 2018 by David Orr

Several years ago at LITC 1.0, I put up a post poking fun at the past-time of imagining prehistoric animals in one-on-one, Mortal Kombat style battles. I let my imagination fly and came up with my own wishlist of ludicrous match-ups: A hundred Mononykus vs. Carcharodontosaurus: They’d swarm the big brute and crawl into all …

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Natee Himmapaan's Camptosaurus Challenge

The Camptosaurus Challenge Strikes Back!

Illustration Paleoart Gallery April 10, 2018April 9, 2018 by David Orr

More Camptosaurus coming at you! As in literally, a lot of these look like they’re coming directly at you! I have to say, I’m just tickled by this whole thing. To think that Brian tweeted out this hashtag and then people all over the place spent the next few days drawing Camptosaurus in front-view… it’s …

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Brian Engh's "Camptosaurus Challenge" call to action

The Camptosaurus Challenge!

Illustration Paleoart Gallery April 9, 2018April 9, 2018 by David Orr

It began, as anything of any merit does these days, with some joshing around on Twitter. Brian Engh made a remark about paleoartists who rely on lateral view too much. lol paleoartists so shook by non lateral views. — Brian Engh (@GreyGriffon) April 4, 2018 So, I replied that a good way to quickly test …

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