Lucy's Homemade Fossils

The amazing Lucy Walsh shares with us her homemade fossils!

Hi, thought I'd send ART Evolved my homemade fossils!

I started this as a little experiment to try to see how fast I could colour match the fossils I made with the real thing. I started out bymaking a cast of two of my fossils from my collection. Having never used thisbefore, apart from on the kid's hands which you know will wash off!, I wasworried the liquid that sets into a mould would damage my precious fossils, butit worked beautifully and only cost 99p from a cheap craft shop! So I filledthe mould with plaster of paris and then when it was dry started painting myfake fossils.

It took me about two hours to paint both fossils, and givethem a matt varnish, and I was quite pleased with the outcome!!

The next day I took them to my sisters house as a gift, anda test! I put them on her worktop and said that they were a present for her.She didnt know they weren't the real thing, until she picked them up!!! Missionaccomplished!

Great fun, easy, cheap and effective! Well worth a go!!!

Kind Regards,

Lucy Walsh.

See more of Lucy's work at her blog and in her deviantArt gallery.

Guest Artist: Vasika Udurawane

Check out this wonderful paleoart from Vasika Udurawane!

Velociraptors

Citipati

Pinacosaurus

Platecarpus

Thalassomedon

Bonnerichthys

Kryostega

Guest Artist: Bryan Foote

Tyrannosaurus

Pachyrhinosaurus mother & calf in mud

Parasaurolophus

Camarasaurus

Canadian palaeoartist Bryan Foote shares some of his fantastic sketches with the palaeoblogsphere.  Check out his art here on deviantART!

Poetry: DRAGONSEED by Claire M. Jordan

Dragonseed

Listen to the song of the world's wind

See my children leap up
See my children cast off
Soaring
Into the sky

Seek my seed - my children were born
Dancing
In a dazzle of colour
Now they spiral upwards
Climbing
Feathered with fractured light -
The light of the sun
Streams past the out-stretched hand

Shedding their teeth
To sow an army

Death and the fire of heaven
Cast them down
Shipwrecked in stone, still fringed
With frozen light -
Shall the stones take flight?

Listen to the song of the world's wind
See my children leap up
See my children cast off
Sorrow
Into the sky

Icarus fell, but Daedalus
Sweeps on - the storm
Could not out-pace him
Listen to me tell
How the same claws that grasped the ground
Clutched at the sundered sky
How the great beasts of thunder
With their bones of stone leapt up
And dwindled
Into bones of air
To glitter and shine

Listen to the song of the world's wind
See my children leap up
See my children cast off
Singing
Into the sky

Cauldron of changes
Feather on the bone
Circle of eternity
Heart in the stone

See my children leap up
Singing
Into the sky

[N.B. verse beginning "Cauldron of changes" is a traditional pagan chant which normally ends "Hole in the stone".]

by Claire M. Jordon

Dinosaurs on DrawBridge

"On you go Wullie, You can do it!" by Simon Fraser

This is a heads up from Simon Fraser, comic book artist and a contributor to the cooperative art blog DrawBridge, who wants to share some wonderful dinosaur art.

Check out the dinosaurs on DrawBridge, I dare you not to smile!

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Evan Boucher's Thoracosaurus

My name is Evan Boucher, and I am a CG character/creature artist from Pennsylvania, PA with a major passion for zoology/paleontology. I have been following ART Evolved for quite some time now, as I've been venturing into Paleoart. I learned a great deal about Paleoart, and it's place in our culture through this blog, and wanted to share some recent work. I recently completed my MS in Digital Media at Drexel University; my thesis being a paleoart reconstruction and restoration of an extinct crocodylian, Thoracosaurus neocesariensis.

The project involved digital scanning of fossils, reconstructing the rest of the skeleton based on the literature/modern analog, restoring the musculature based on modern analogue, and then finally restoring the skin. The goal of the project was then to be an animation showcasing a proposed slice of life for the animal, while also showcasing the science that went into it. The project was also mentored by both artists and paleontologists. If you are interested, please feel free to check it out. The final animation and accompanying thesis document can be found here:


http://thoracosaurus.blogspot.com/2010/10/final-animation.html



And if interested in my other work, the rest of my portfolio is here:

http://www.evanboucher.com/