I am continuing my project of taking photographs of my childhood Louis Marx models of dinosaurs and other ancient creatures. Here is the toy pterosaur, Rhamphorhynchus, based on the famous painting by Charles R. Knight. The toy is repainted to match as possible to the painting.
A summer stay-at-home project. Repainting cheap dollar store dinosaurs into actual miniature creatures, in this case, some sort of theropod family, with a mother, a yearling and two juveniles now old enough to leave the nest and follow the family into the world.
On February 21, Parks Canada announced the discovery of fossilized tracks of the Permian sail-backed mammal like reptile Dimetrodon (Bathygnathus borealis) in the red rocks of Prince Edward Island. A Dimetrodon walked through mud about 290 million years ago. That inspired my next project to recreate the classic paintings by artist Charles R. Knight of […]
Two Tyrannosaurus Rex hunt a triceratops in a recreation of the famous Charles R. Knight painting The original in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. A sabre tooth tiger (Smilodon), watches for prey in a recreation of the 1903 Charles R. Knight painting in the American Museum of Natural History. How the idea […]
Some images of dinosaurs from a toy photo class I taught in July.