Category Archives: Dinosaurs

It’s official… The *New* Big Golden Book of Dinosaurs is advertised at Amazon!

Posted on 21/01/2013 by luisvrey

Sixty years ago children and dinosaur fans in general marvelled at the great illustrations of Rudolph Zallinger (both at the Yale Museum famous mural and at children books like Dinosaurs And Other Prehistoric Reptiles)… Artistically his stylish artwork remain a landmark, … Continue reading →

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HEY… WE ARE STILL HERE!

Posted on 12/12/2012 by luisvrey

This is dedicated to everybody supporting this blog (and more)… thank you for making it a success and hey… you may love dinosaurs enough to become vegetarian this end of the year… fine by me! After all, who really wants … Continue reading →

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Charlie gets his wings…

Posted on 02/09/2012 by luisvrey

This famous landmark (at least in my home) that some of you may have seen before is a Velociraptor originally modelled by the famous dino-sculptor Charlie Mc Grady and that got a total makeover by yours truly (with his permission … Continue reading →

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Dinosaur Sex!

Posted on 21/08/2012 by luisvrey

The subject has always been a spiny one…let alone the problem of size and the (sometimes) the spikes! Her are a couple of my solutions. The first one  is this couple of T.rexes having fun and putting their puny forelimbs … Continue reading →

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Presenting: Dinosaur Art

Posted on 10/08/2012 by luisvrey

I’m making public this picture in celebration of having participated in a new Steve White project due out very soon. It is entitled Dinosaur Art, The World’s Greatest Paleoart (due to be released the 28th of September)and  compiles some of the all-time … Continue reading →

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Yutyrannus. This is how things really change…

Posted on 30/07/2012 by luisvrey

As I have been stressing in my recent talks in Aarhus, Bristol and London the Image of the Dinosaur in modern times keeps changing at an alarming speed rate that many times threatens a good chunk of our work to become obsolete … Continue reading →

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Bringing it down (Having fun with Allosaurus Part 2)…

Posted on 26/07/2012 by luisvrey

This piece is taken from “Dinosaurs In The Round” too. Hunting pack of allosaurs try to bring down a medium sized sauropod (Camarasaurus). This scene is inspired by a sculpture group scene I saw in an  “exhibition” made in the … Continue reading →

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Oldies from Dinosaurs In The Round… From 3D to 2D.

Posted on 20/07/2012 by luisvrey

Here’s the Cretaceous diorama from Dinosaurs In The Round . When you have to do a cardboard cut-out 3D piece, the computer layering system is quite valuable . Here I tried to put together all the layers as they would … Continue reading →

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Having Fun with Hadrosaurs… a few sketches.

Posted on 16/07/2012 by luisvrey

For anyone with a  taste for creativity and colour, Hadrosaurs -like this strangely crested Olorotitan- simply open the gates for a flood of possibilities. I could finally see a mounted Olorotitan specimen in the Natural History Museum in Brussels (the … Continue reading →

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The Murals for Hatching The Past.

Posted on 06/07/2012 by luisvrey

This expanded  and modified version of my nesting oviraptors (Citipati) facing the storms in Mongolia is part of the trilogy I have devised for the ambitious itinerant exhibition Hatching The Past that has been organised by my friends the Magovern … Continue reading →

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