The other day I mentioned that I was thinking of putting up a new banner for this blog, and although a number of you have said you thought Knight's painting should stay up, I still felt the need to shake things up a bit. Paleo-artist Mike Skrepnick has kindly let me crop his painting of some Deinonychus catching a group of Tenontosaurus by surprise, and I like the new effect. The old banner isn't going way though; as soon as I figure out how to make the banners rotate I'll bring it back (along with some other new ones based upon some old paleontological artwork). Thanks, Mike!
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Paleo-artist Michael Skrepnick
It is difficult for me to pick up a book about dinosaurs and not find some gorgeous artwork by artist Michael Skrepnick gracing the pages, if not the cover, of the book. He has created beautiful restorations of the distant past for Nature, National Geographic,…
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OK, ad rotation is easy. I'd tell you how to do it on the Back Channel, but I no longer communicate with my fellow Sciencebloggers back there because I don't want to accidentally evolve a novel insular form of ethics.
Anyway, its in the Secret Science Blogger's Handbook, Page 22, between the sections on "Feeding Pharyngula" and "Destroying Non Sb Blogs"
Beautiful! I wish I could figure out how to superimpose my blog's title over a picture, like you and Amanda do. I'd put one of my skulls up there...
It's funny that you chose this picture, Brian. Just the other day I was going back through my old (oooold) science magazines that I've collected over the decades, and came across an issue of "Earth" in which Bob Bakker contributed a "field guide to Jurassic Park," including original illustrations and brief run-downs for each dino in the movie and book, as well as Utahraptor and Drinker. More interestingly, the article's title picture was a Skrepnick painting of two Utahraptors going after an Astrodon! It remains to this day one of my favorite of Mike's paintings.
Very nice! =)
Zach: You have more than one skull? :0 Also, I didn't know Mike Skrepnick had a painting of Utahraptor versus "Astrodon"; I thought only Luis Rey had done work on that.
Seeing your new banner immediately took me back to one of my great geological life experiences: in 1994, I was able to take 15 of my students to Montana to help re-open John Ostrom's quarry where he found deinonychus and tenontosaurus. We were there as diggers and not so much excavators, but it was a great experience for the students, and 5-6 became geology majors as a result. 2 of the students wandered off and found a relatively good specimen of a Zephyrosaurus, apparently only the second one ever found. Like Bob Hope used to sing: "Thanks for the memories"!
Hai: By skull I mean skulls I've drawn! :-)
Zach and Hei-Ren - Wow, there's a taste of nostalgia! The Utahraptor / Astrodon painting was done in collaboration with Jim Kirkland in 1992, and subsequent printing of that image in the "Earth" magazine article was actually the first, commercial publication of my dinosaur artwork! It was later reprinted as a poster insert in Weekly Reader magazine in 1995 ( in fact Zach, I still have one extra copy of it kicking around. if you want it, email me your address offlist, and I'll send it up to you.)