Recreating an age of reptiles
Witton, Mark P., 1984-2017
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Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals have always fascinated people but they pose vast problems for the artist. How do you go about recreating the anatomy and behaviour of a creature we've never seen? How can we restore landscapes long lost to time? And where does the boundary between palaeontology -- the science of understanding fossils -- and artistic licence lie? In this outstanding book, Mark Witton shares his detailed paintings and great experience of drawing and painting extinct species. The approaches used in rendering these impressive creatures are discussed and demonstrate the problems, as well as the unexpected freedoms, that palaeontological artists are faced with.
Main title:
Recreating an age of reptiles / by Mark P. Witton.
Author:
Imprint:
Ramsbury, Marlborough : The Crowood Press, 2017.©2017.
Collation:
110 pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Careful now: we're only predatory dinosaurs -- Of Mesozoic seas -- Sauropods: the (second) best animals -- The Mesozoic was full of holes -- A world of pterosaurs -- Mesozoic synapsids: coming of age -- Rethinking Dimorphodon -- River masters -- Local heroes -- Controversial ceratopsians -- Hey Triassic, you so crazy -- An accidental Tyrannosaurus fan -- Those persistent azhdarchid pterosaurs.
ISBN:
9781785003349 (paperback)
Dewey class:
758.9567
Language:
English
BRN:
369592
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 758.9567 REC | Available |