Arthur Denison calls a meeting in Waterfall City. At the Round Table, the humans sit on high chairs to be at the level of the dinosaurs.Oil illustration from the book Dinotopia: The World Be… Read More
Would giant pterosaurs with saddles make cool toys? I did these marker sketches to explore some of the possibilities.This one-of-a-kind toy prototype was made by Hasbro in 1997, part of a pr… Read More
What happens inside the mysterious stone monuments of Ebulon? They're hollowed out inside, with a library, kitchen, and privy. It's the headquarters of the skybax riders who practi… Read More
I did this portrait of paleontologist Robert Bakker to illustrate an article in a science magazine using oil wash over pencil.Bakker has been a proponent of the hypothesis that dinosaurs we… Read More
An English actor named Colin Salmon net worth is around $6 million. Colin Salmon, who was born on December 6, 1962, in Bethnal Green, London, England, is most known for his performances in t… Read More
The breakthrough idea for developing Dinotopia was creating this relief map, which is painted in oil.As an illustrator for National Geographic, this sort of map came naturally to me. I made… Read More
Usually colors get cooler as they recede. When you reverse that principle (as sometimes happens in nature), it looks weird and magical.Into the Golden Realm, from Dinotopia: Journey to Chan… Read More
Arthur Denison pilots his submersible toward the sunken entrance to the World Beneath. At right a flock of ammonoids drifts toward shipwrecks of galleons. The animals on the left are eurypte… Read More
Animals are able to communicate in the realm of sound with much more complexity and nuance than scientists had suspected.It turns out that animals are able to communicate in the realm of sou… Read More
Arthur Denison helps a young Giganotosaurus with a stuck foot, oil illustration from Dinotopia: The World Beneath.An editor of Ranger Rick Magazine asked: "Were you crazy about dinosaur… Read More
This maquette of the Protoceratops named Bix in Dinotopia was sculpted by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. The sculpt is about 36 inches long, cast in resin from a clay original. It ha… Read More
+30 City Sports Gym Near Me. At city sports they offer cycling classes, yoga, zumba and ab classes so that check a very important box for me. Your oakland gym membership offers access to ove… Read More
What to do in Taipei?
Have you chosen to visit Taipei, the capital of Taiwan?
Excellent choice!
To help you organize your stay, I have prepared a comprehensive guide to… Read More
To play bucktail, a Stegosaurus stands between two large mounds of straw. Each player in turn climbs on the tail and holds onto the spikes. The tail begins to wag back and forth un… Read More
Attack on a Convoy, from Dinotopia: The World Beneath. We've got a few of these rare posters in inventory in our webstore Find me on Mastodon Read More
For those of you attending Lightbox Expo in Pasadena, CA next week, I'll be there. I'll be doing two scheduled presentations.1. Keynote Presentation, IMAGINATIVE REALISM: CLASSICAL HOW-TOSAT… Read More
I did a lot of sketches before painting "Dinosaur Parade."I interpreted the scene in a variety of techniques: red chalk & charcoal, pencil & wash, markers, and oil.What would the sc… Read More
Skimmers are floating vehicles based on the design of trilobites and other Cambrian and Permian arthropods. I originally produced this small painting as a concept for a virtual-reality ride… Read More
Color wheel masking helps you create new color schemes that feel complete but are really limited. The mask reveals only the colors we want in the picture and leaves out the colors that… Read More
Cody asks: "Did you give your dinosaurs facial expressions?"Answer: Yes, I tried that idea in Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara. I suspect dinosaurs didn't have very mobile faces, so instead of… Read More