Plastic Critters

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Raven, Safari, 2014, ID 150829.

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Brown Bear, CollectA, 2012, 88560.

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Octopus, Papo, 2014, ID 56013.

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Velociraptor, Carnegie Collection, Safari Ltd., 2015 ID 410201. Feet tweaked to produce bipedal position.

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A couple of Pinacosaurus grangeri cross a river in a gorge in Late Cretaceous Mongolia, aout 750 million years ago.

The style of this painting is hugely influenced by the work of Ely Kish, who died recently. She was one of the best painters to work on dinosaurs, and her 70s and 80s work was instrumental in teaching myself to paint.

Ely Kish wasn’t a specialised palaeoartist, and she got rather ahem strange direction from palaeontologist Dale Russell, which resulted in weird emaciated dinosaurs. On top of this, her later dinosaur work took on a cartoonish aspect which I don’t like, but I don’t think any of this should detract from the sheer painterly brilliance of her classic work.

There aren’t reproductions on the web that do here work justice, but Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs has a nice writeup with scans of her work in An Odyssey in Time.

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holy mackerel John Conway is a wonderful paleoartist.

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Cobra, Schleich, 1998-2002, ID 14141. 

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Pachyrhinosaurus, Battat Terra, 2014, AN4000.

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Sun Bear, Mojo Fun, 2014 ID 387173.

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Springbok, CollectA, 2014 ID 88684.

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Snow Leopard, Papo, 2014 ID 50160

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Gastonia, CollectA, 2014, ID 88696.

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Snowy Owl, Safari, 2006, Toob ID 680404.

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Pangolin, Mojo Fun 2014, ID 387174.

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Bistahieversor, CollectA, 2014, ID 88676.

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Mountain Goat, "Snow Goat," Preiser 47713.

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Sheep, Ewe, Schleich, 2014, ID 13743.

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Tyrannosaurus rex skull, Kaiyodo, Capsule Q, Tyrannosaur series, 2013.