I think I finally finished one set of commissioned paintings, now it's on to a second set of two for another collector.
That doesn't mean I stop thinking about other paintings I want to do, probably for myself, or maybe to post on Fine Art America to make prints for sale.
But in the meantime, drawing is a fast way of making art compared to painting. Like making dino drawings!
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| Deinonychus |
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| Dimetrodon |
Of course, nobody knows exactly what dinos look like. All we've got are bones and, in some cases, fossilized impressions. (And fossilized dino eggs and dino poop!) But the computer-generated image (CGI) critters we see in the movies are convincing enough to get us excited about these ancient animals!
Incidentally, Dimetrodon, a denizen of the Permian era, is not considered a dinosaur, but was a synapsid -- more reptilian (and even mammal-like in some ways) and was wiped out in the mass extinction event at the end of the Permian, before true dinos began to appear. Too bad -- as a kid, this was my favorite "dinosaur."
Back to painting. I'm sure more drawings will follow.
Mark Junge
