Recreating an Age of Reptiles

Description

Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals have always fascinated people but they pose vast problems for the artist. How do you go about recreating the anatomy and behaviour of a creature we've never seen? How can we restore landscapes long lost to time? And where does the boundary between palaeontology - the science of understanding fossils- and artistic licence lie? In this outstanding book, Mark Witton shares his detailed paintings and great experience of drawing and painting extinct species. The approaches used in rendering these impressive creatures are discussed and demonstrate the problems, as well as the unexpected freedoms, that palaeontological artists are faced with. AUTHOR: Dr Mark P Witton is an author, palaeontological artist and researcher who hs wokred with major museums and universities around the world to understand and reconstruct extinct animals. He has acted as consultant to numerous dinosaur documentaries and folms including the Walking with Dinosaurs franchise and the BBC's Planet Dinosaur. SELLING POINTS: . An outstanding book with over ninety paintings of dinosaurs and other creatures of the Mesozoic Era brought to life with habitats and likely behavioural traits. . Of great interest to palaeontological artists, researchers, museum curators, dinosaur enthusiasts and fossil hunters. . Explains how each image was created with details of the artistic process. . Discusses where the boundary between palaeontology and artistic licence lie. . Superbly illustrated with 90 paintings. . Dr Mark Witton is an author, palaeontological artist, researcher and has acted as consultant to many dinosaur documentaries and films. 90 colour paintings

Dr Mark P Witton is an author, palaeontological artist and researcher who has worked with major museums and universities around the world to understand and reconstruct extinct animals. He has acted as consultant to numerous dinosaur documentaries and films including the Walking with Dinosaurs franchise and the BBC's Planet Dinosaur.

This book is an enjoyable and at times humorous discussion of the artistic reconstruction of Mesozoic reptiles by palaeontologist and palaeoartist Mark Witton. -- Emma Askew reviewer * Open University Geological Society *