Bob Nicholls Art

Full-time palaeo-reconstruction artist. Our new book, THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, is out now! Buy here: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-secret-lives-of-dinosaurs/9780231211307/

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Had a brilliant time with my family at the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival last weekend. So much to see and do! Also pleased (relieved!) to have had a full crowd at my talk on the Sunday afternoon. 😃

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Interested in making a living from palaeoart? Then you might be interested in my Lyme Regis Fossil Festival headline talk:

A DINOSAUR ART LIFE, How Painting & Sculpting Prehistoric Animals Became My Job.

This Sunday 14th June, 1.30pm at the Marine Theatre

Adults £7 / Children £4. Tickets available here: https://www.marinetheatre.com/lyme-regis-fossil-festival.../

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Want to make a living from palaeoart? Then you might be interested in my Lyme Regis Fossil Festival headline talk:

A DINOSAUR ART LIFE, How Painting & Sculpting Prehistoric Animals Became My Job.

This Sunday 14th June, 1.30pm at the Marine Theatre

Adults £7 / Children £4. Tickets available here: https://www.marinetheatre.com/lyme-regis-fossil-festival-a-dinosaur-art-life-how-painting-and-sculpting-prehistoric-animals-became-my-job/

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Interested in making a living from palaeoart? Then you might be interested in my Lyme Regis Fossil Festival headline talk:

A DINOSAUR ART LIFE, How Painting & Sculpting Prehistoric Animals Became My Job.

This Sunday 14th June, 1.30pm at the Marine Theatre Adults £7 / Children £4. Tickets available here: https://www.marinetheatre.com/lyme-regis-fossil-festival-a-dinosaur-art-life-how-painting-and-sculpting-prehistoric-animals-became-my-job/

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Fossil Festival HEADLINE TALK at the Marine Theatre

A DINOSAUR ART LIFE, How Painting and Sculpting Prehistoric Animals Became My Job

Sunday 14th June, 1.30pm

Bob Nicholls began drawing prehistoric animals as soon as he could to hold a pencil and today he has twenty-six years of freelance art experience. In this talk Bob will explain his development from an obsessive young hobbyist into a full-time professional illustrator and sculptor. He will show how his artistic workflows have changed from traditional mediums to digital methods, and finally he will talk through the inside-out palaeo-reconstruction process – fossils to skeleton, to soft tissues, to integument, and behaviour. The talk will end with a look at Bob’s newest artworks and perhaps some Lyme Regis Fossil Festival exclusives!

Stay after the talk for a Q&A- your chance to meet Bob Nicholls, ask questions and chat about his work.

Sunday 14th June – 1.30pm

Adults £7 / Children £4. Tickets available here: https://fossilfestival.com/palaeontological-festival.../

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THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, Unearthing the Real Behaviours of Prehistoric Animals, written by Dr Dean Lomax - Palaeontologist and illustrated by Bob Nicholls Art, is OUT NOW!

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The Lyme Regis Fossil Festival programme is online: https://fossilfestival.com/

I will be talking at 13:30 on Sunday June 14 and again with Dr Dean Lomax at 15:00. See you there!

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It is exciting to see snippets of Surviving Earth coming out from Impossible Pictures (see: https://www.instagram.com/picturesimpossible/). One of the clips released features Arctodus, the "short faced bear", here is my official design sheet, which was used by the production team.

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Here are some crops from "The Twisted Feast," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of fossil species from the museum and the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay: a bait ball of Thrissops, Grendelius and Nannopterygius ichthyosaurs, diving Rhamphorhynchus pterosaurs, Caturus, Gyrodus, and Pachycormus fishes, a Dakosaurus croc, and three Kimmerosaurus.

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Here are some crops from "The Twisted Feast," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of fossil species from the museum and the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay: a bait ball of Thrissops, Grendelius and Nannopterygius ichthyosaurs, diving Rhamphorhynchus pterosaurs, Caturus, Gyrodus, and Pachycormus fishes, a Dakosaurus croc, and three Kimmerosaurus.

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NEW ARTWORK for Fossil Friday Here is "The Twisted Feast," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of fossil species from the museum and the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay: a bait ball of Thrissops, Grendelius and Nannopterygius ichthyosaurs, diving Rhamphorhynchus pterosaurs, Caturus, Gyrodus, and Pachycormus fishes, a Dakosaurus croc, and three Kimmerosaurus.

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I'm finally able to show my new cover artwork for the 10th anniversary 4th edition of DINOSAURS, HOW THEY LIVED AND EVOLVED, by Darren Naish and Paul Barrett (published by the Natural History Museum, London). The sauropod is the wonderful Amargasaurus. It isn't available yet, but it will be soon!

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Today's marine reptile artwork features Platecarpus hunting Enchodus. It was commissioned by the The Children's Museum of Indianapolis in 2021.

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Today's marine reptile artwork depicts a mother Nannopterygius giving birth. This is one of about 60 artworks I produced for Prof Michael J. Benton's book, DINOSAUR BEHAVIOR (published by Princeton University Press).

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Today's marine reptile artwork is a 2008 digital artwork of Corosaurus.

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Today's marine reptile artwork is "Cretaceous Jaws," an acrylic painting from 2001; featuring Cretoxyrhina (top left), an adult Tylosaurus (top right), two Squalicorax (bottom right), and a juvenile Tylosaurus (middle left).

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Remembering my friend Richard Forrest, a marine reptile expert, with a week or two of marine reptile artworks. I'll start with this old acrylic painting, called The Wreck, which I created for Richard back in 2004.