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Prints, custom palaeoart, and antisocial Triceratops
Hey now - look at this: there's a way to buy high-quality prints of my artwork, and it's dead simple. Drop me an email at wittonprints@gmail.com with your requirements, pay off the invoice, and wait...
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Of tiny tyrants and Triassic big-heads: Tyrannosaurus rex and Garjainia madiba
This week sees two new pictures of mine being 'released' in one way or another. Much as I'd like to go into lots of detail about each, that realistically isn't going to happen anytime soon. I'm going...
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You won't believe how interesting the Mesozoic mammaliaform Morganucodon...
Morganucodon watsoni forage for insects and spiders at night among Carboniferous limestones in early Mesozoic Wales. Empty, torn webs suggest they're having a good night, while forest fires burn in the...
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Overcooking Aucasaurus garridoi
Aucasaurus made a note in its diary after this. Simply said: "Bugger". Prints are available.This week I've been mostly rendering an abelisaurid, the theropod group best known for short-faced,...
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Taking in the festive air with an azhdarchid pterosaur
An azhdarchid pterosaur takes off in a festively-coloured woodland, because it's Christmas. Prints are available. I was recently thrilled to have the above image featured on the front cover of The...
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Babified Allosaurus and prehistoric sphenodontians
A curious juvenile Allosaurus is told to get off the lawn owned by a grumpy Opisthias. Prints are available. With Christmas 2014 fading into memory, I can start sharing pieces of artwork commissioned...
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Pterosaur art you've never seen before! (sort of)
Later this week I’m travelling to the Netherlands to give a talk on pterosaurs at the Museon, The Hague. I’ll be part of a series of public talks on Mesozoic reptile lifestyles celebrating the opening...
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Bonus pterosaur (anurognathid) art you've never seen before! (sort of)
Anurognathus ammoni makes itself like a tree, but doesn't leave. Prints are available.Last week I unceremoniously dumped several revamped pterosaur images on the blog after they were prepared for a...
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Tyrannosaurus, Mesozoic bees, and bee-friendly palaeoart!
The stem-birds and the bees - two juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex investigate a Cretaceous honey bee nest. Prints are available, and you'll be contributing to bee conservation if you buy one in February...
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Controversial ceratopsids revisited: woolly Pachyrhinosaurus and scavenging...
Spurned on by a print request, I've spent free time this week revising two images of ceratopsids which may be familiar to long-term readers: my woolly Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum and scavenging...
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Deinonychus, Parasaurolophus, Dreadnoughtus and Carnotaurus welcome in the...
Since launching a limited print buying service at the close of last year I've had enough interest to warrant investing more resources into print sales. The result is an online print store over at the...
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How Ornithocheirus simus and other pterosaurs took to the air... from water?
Aquatically-adapted ornithocheiroid Ornithocheirus simus takes off using aquatic quad launch, as hypothesised by Habib and Cunningham (2010). Prints of this painting - which might be the first...
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Torvosaurus tanneri and the progressiveness of Knight and Burian
Mother Torvosaurus tanneri, reclining in Late Jurassic North America, wondering when her life became all about the kids. See the original version of this painting here, and check out my store to buy a...
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Short-necked azhdarchid pterosaurs - say what?
LPV (FGGUB) R.2395, our unnamed short-necked azhdarchid from Maastrichtian deposits of the Hațeg basin. Prints of this chap are available.Odds are that most regular readers of this blog are familiar...
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More new-old art: Therizinosaurus, superpigeon, and Polacanthus, walking...
Two Therizinosaurus cheliformis hanging out in Late Cretaceous Mongolia. The guy on the left thinks he's all that: she doesn't. Prints are available from my online store. Time for more new takes on old...
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Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops - friends at last?
Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops, not locked in mortal combat. Something must be wrong. Cretaceous interspecies adoption concept, mimicking similar behaviours seen in modern mammals and birds, by...
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The weird, awesome, and weirdly awesome, Triassic hindlimb-glider...
Sharovipteryx mirabilis, a tiny reptilian 'hindlimb glider' from the Late Triassic of Kyrgyzstan. A Triassic spider is thrown in for fun (spiders are a very ancient group, and were almost certainly...
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Mamenchisaurus youngi presents a money-off print offer and other links of...
Jurassic sauropod Mamenchisaurus youngi was a pretty freaky looking thing: a weird, upturned tail base; some sort of 'sail' along the hip/tail junction; a hugely oversize neck and massive shoulders....
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And I, for one, welcome our new wukongopterid pterosaur overlords (to Europe)
Upper Jurassic pterosaur Cuspicephalus scarfi, a species of some uncertain affinity, now confidently restored as a wukongopterid. How come? Read on. If you'd like a print of this image, please head to...
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New takes on the Wealden Supergroup palaeobiota, part 1: Iguanodon,...
Regular readers will know that I'm prone to dabbling in palaeoart depicting the environments and animals of the Wealden Supergroup, the 18 million year stretch of Early Cretaceous time represented by...
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