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Behold, the Cryolophosaurus.by ~Archosaurian

Traditional Art / Paintings / Animals

Behold, the Cryolophosaurus! Denizen of the primæval Antarctic forests, it was the mighty rival of the Glacialisaurus.

Eherm!
I mean… I painted this sketch of a Cryolophosaurus ellioti based on my skeletal reconstruction. I'm gradually working my way back into palæo-life restoration and I aim to use a more palæontographic method eventually. I don't consider this to be much since I didn't really put any thought into the composition, it's more a study than anything else. I'm sure there are a lot of technical details like lighting that might be off.
This is an animal whose fossils I have had the chance to take a close look at in person and I've been working on a few illustration projects for one of the scientists studying it.

I used a combination of watercolour and gouache for this painting (I really don't see why both media can't be used together, many early watercolourists did so, before anybody decided to come up with 'rules' for the art, e.g. only transparent, never use black, no white). My palette was very earth-heavy and centred around Payne's grey, yellow ochre, raw sienna, English/light red, raw and burnt umber, white, and neutral tint. For some of the atmospheric effects and landscape I used burnt sienna and tiny bits of cerulean blue and viridian, for spots of vegetation I used a pre-mixed Hooker's green that I made from Prussian blue and nickel azomethine yellow. The signature used cadmium scarlet. I think artists today, especially those who restore prehistoric animals have gone too far in using extremely high-saturated primaries, the result is a synthetic look to their paintings.

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*MrCoolJoeCool Feb 23, 2013 Student General Artist

Freakin awesome dude

~sporething Dec 14, 2011

Wonderful job! Just not seeing the fenestrae beneath the skin is already very refreshing!

But I think the neck would do good to be just slightly thicker. Just slightly

~Dinomaniac Nov 24, 2011

dude! Very very nice! I'm really enjoying these paintings of yours and definately wan't to see more. The neck seems a bit thin but that's the only complaint I have anatomy wise.

I'm not fan of purist idea of using just one medium or keeping with strict rules. Black and white can be very useful but one should be very aware what those two do to colors.

~pilsator Nov 24, 2011 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Love your approach, and especially giving an anorexic-supermodel-grade neotheropod something such as plausible mass

~nemo-ramjet Nov 23, 2011

Great piece, goes very well with your essay earlier this week...

~percafluvi Nov 22, 2011

Awesome painting.

*EWilloughby Nov 22, 2011

Excellent job giving the animal a realistic-looking sense of mass and space.

~DinoHunter000 Nov 22, 2011

I very much like the principle in which you are taking paleoart recently

~painted-wolfs-den Nov 22, 2011

Very nice! I love the colors. It has a nice atmospheric feel.

Don't worry about using gouache and watercolors together... it's actually really common among nature painters.

*hezoo Nov 22, 2011 Traditional Artist

I love the values. They really give the cryolophosaurus shape and dimension. Awesome job!

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