Monthly Archives: June 2012

Old Volcanic Stuff.

Posted on 30/06/2012 by luisvrey

Giganotosaurus extreme close-up as I envisioned for my first and only Pop-up book called “Dinosaurs In The Round”… I’m including the cover here too. It is a book that represented a challenge but it was so much fun to do!  Layer upon … Continue reading →

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Mammal Evolution

Posted on 29/06/2012 by luisvrey

The strange world of mammal evolution is present in these two pieces.  The dog-like cynodont therapsid Cynognathus and the utterly handsome dinocephalian (more like a side branch in evolutionary terms) Estemmenosuchus. Both have been published in Anusuya Chinsamy’s  “Forerunners Of Mammals” previously mentioned … Continue reading →

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The Deinonychus Saga (Part 2)

Posted on 27/06/2012 by luisvrey

We were talking about female Deinonychus in the previous post… what about this dandy. flamboyant male? I did this as a challenge: we really don’t have much evidence of the exterior of dinosaurs… what is underneath all that flamboyancy  is … Continue reading →

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The Deinonychus Saga (Part 1)

Posted on 27/06/2012 by luisvrey

Since I’m going backwards and forwards with the artwork in this blog, I decided to include a bit of the Denonychus Saga that inspired the  3D restoration you can see  in previous pages. I have depicted the deadly embrace of Deinonychus and Tenontosaurus many … Continue reading →

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Our daily dose of dino-weirdness…

Posted on 26/06/2012 by luisvrey

We are used to Nature’s jokes, but this one… well… this is the joke nobody expected in the mosaic of dino=bird evolution… could it be lemur-mimic dinosaur like Epidendrosaurus?  That is why I reconstructed it this way… fully covered with … Continue reading →

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Some mammal stuff from “Prehistoric Monsters”

Posted on 25/06/2012 by luisvrey

Denizens of the Ice Age and Platybelodon protecting its baby…. These two pieces that are part of the Prehistoric Monsters book I did with Dr. Bob Bakker some years ago and in turn they are now part of the newly … Continue reading →

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Announcing: “Dinosaurs In Your Face”

Posted on 24/06/2012 by luisvrey

Random House has just re-released several of my collaborations with Robert Bakker (“Dinosaurs!”, “Dino Babies!” and “Prehistoric Monsters!” … for the first time in 3D! Yes… more exclamation marks… they have compiled several of the children books we have done … Continue reading →

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Surrealist intermission… Home’s Garden.

Posted on 23/06/2012 by luisvrey

It’s Sunday, so it’s time for something completely different… Since I have had some enquiries about Dave Hone’s post regarding my home’s garden (the actual title of this piece!), I’d like to tell a little story. Some people know that … Continue reading →

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Baby Ceratosaurus

Posted on 23/06/2012 by luisvrey

This juvenile Ceratosaurus is based on a real skull… note the enormous teeth compared to the maxilla. “Beard” is optional…. but since it is a juvenile I dared to be a little heretical and added protofeathers to a fairly basal … Continue reading →

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To Fly or not to Fly…

Posted on 22/06/2012 by luisvrey

Now… I know some people are going to be not precisely happy with a flying Archaeopteryx (it was a poor one after all, if it was at all)… however, as you can see here it is not flying higher than … Continue reading →

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