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Think this is done, for now. Gonna try printing it with the hyoid attached via flexible material. Possibly also magnets for the lower jaw.

Have some future plans to print one in two "halves", with a brain inside, but still need to make the brain. And make the inside of the cranium match.

Rhamporhynchus Muensteri 🎨 🖍️

Behind this barbaric name lies a small pterosaur... An adorable physiognomy that I have reconstructed in drawing from existing fossils!

🦖 It is neither a bird nor a dinosaur.
🐦 No feathers or scales, but a rather special coat of hair called pycnofibres
🦇 Membranous wings, supported by the 4th finger, which is particularly long

Loved working on this black rhino drawing. Played with textures, subtle tones, and even used a small makeup brush for clouds. I chose to indent paper for the grass over skin on the feet with an empty .3mm pencil! Did you know a group of rhinos is called a “crash”. #sciart

Loved working on this black rhino drawing. Played with textures, subtle tones, and even used a small makeup brush for clouds. I chose to indent paper for the grass over skin on the feet with an empty .3mm pencil! Did you know a group of rhinos is called a “crash”. #sciart

Rhamporhynchus Muensteri 🎨 🖍️

Derrière ce nom barbare se cache un petit ptérosaure, dont j'ai reconstitué en dessin le physique et l'adorable physionomie à partir des fossiles existants !
🦖 Ce n'est ni un oiseau, ni un dinosaure.
🐦 Ni plumes ni écailles donc, mais un pelage un peu spécial de poils appelés pycnofibres ! 
🦇 Des ailes membraneuses, notamment soutenues par le 4e doigt, particulièrement long

Thinking about pollinators, so sharing a favourite. This is a hand-printed lino block print of the charming Hummingbird Clearwing moth (Hermaris thysbe) seeking pollen from cherry blossoms. The olive-headed burgundy moth has transparent wings (though colour can be variable). It beats its wings rapidly to hover above flowers, like a hummingbird, meaning it is often confused with a hummingbird or bee. It has a 5 cm wingspan. 🧵

Continued thread

a jumble of Feynman diagrams and coloured shapes with a Bauhaus feel.

#linocut #printmaking #physics #Bauhaus #quantumMechanics #FeynmanDiagram #penguinDiagram #particlePhysics #sciart #WorldQuantumDay

*I am somewhat dubious of this date because a) I was trained to use the metric convention day/month/year and b) physicists use the reduced constant h-bar (that’s h divided by 2 pi) and then, cause it’s easier they just change units such that h-bar = 1 but it’s as good an excuse as any

🧵3/3

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax - Palaeontologist & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "Froghopper sex" shows a pair of Anthoscytina perpetua engaging in Jurassic sex.

Making progress on the horse skull. You get a close-up of the temporal bone (just behind/below the ear), because it's taken as much time as the rest of the model combined. 😭

Still needs teeth and some other details. (Yes, this is box-modeled.)