The next series in my project of reproducing Charles R. Knight paintings using the Louis Marx toys from the 1950s that used the paintings as models. The hadrosaur (duck billed dinosaur in this case an Edmontosaurus as it was reconstructed at the time). The second is the ankylosaur-clade Panoplosaurus (although the toy manufacturer called it […]
This continues my project of photographing old Louis Marx toy dinosaurs. Most of the photographs are based on Charles R. Knight paintings. The Marx company, however, created these two as perching, probably easier to produce and for the children of the 1950s to play with. So here we have a day in the life of […]
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.
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 […]
My latest vintage toy repaint, a 1950s Louis Marx Toys wooly mammoth, photographed in the first day of snow in Kitimat, BC, December 8, 2918. (Normally we get snow in the first week of November not the second week of December)
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.