Comments on: Book review – Dinosaur Art II: The Cutting Edge of Paleoart/2017/12/20/book-review-dinosaur-art-2-the-cutting-edge-of-paleoart/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:33:29 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Mesozoic Art: Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Animals in Art | The Inquisitive Biologist/2017/12/20/book-review-dinosaur-art-2-the-cutting-edge-of-paleoart/comment-page-1/#comment-81383Sun, 05 Mar 2023 13:34:53 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1380#comment-81383[…] White previously edited Dinosaur Art and Dinosaur Art II, published by Titan Books. For reasons unknown to me, this collaboration has not continued. You […]

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By: Book review – Tropical Arctic: Lost Plants, Future Climates, and the Discovery of Ancient Greenland | The Inquisitive Biologist/2017/12/20/book-review-dinosaur-art-2-the-cutting-edge-of-paleoart/comment-page-1/#comment-48728Fri, 27 May 2022 11:45:24 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1380#comment-48728[…] I first leafed through this book it was not quite what I was expecting. Spoiled as I have become by portfolios of palaeoart I thought this was going to be an art book first. Seeing just three full-page spreads (and, […]

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By: Book review – Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds | The Inquisitive Biologist/2017/12/20/book-review-dinosaur-art-2-the-cutting-edge-of-paleoart/comment-page-1/#comment-42881Fri, 04 Mar 2022 12:51:11 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1380#comment-42881[…] reconstructions. An open-hearted conversation with palaeoartist Robert Nicholls touches on his Psittacosaurus model, the importance of thorough background research, and his frank opinion that most dinosaur art that […]

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By: Book review – Paleontology: An Illustrated History | The Inquisitive Biologist/2017/12/20/book-review-dinosaur-art-2-the-cutting-edge-of-paleoart/comment-page-1/#comment-42161Mon, 21 Feb 2022 12:49:16 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1380#comment-42161[…] Notably absent are well-known young palaeoartists such as Mark Witton, Emily Willoughby, and many others. Though some modern palaeoart is included, I did not recognize any of the artists (but maybe that […]

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By: Book review – Drawing and Painting Dinosaurs: Using Art and Science to Bring the Past to Life | The Inquisitive Biologist/2017/12/20/book-review-dinosaur-art-2-the-cutting-edge-of-paleoart/comment-page-1/#comment-41731Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:39:28 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1380#comment-41731[…] articles, museum exhibitions, magazines, newspapers, websites, and, of course, books (e.g. in Dinosaur Art 2). To me, a standout feature of Drawing and Painting Dinosaurs is her philosophy. First, palaeoart […]

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By: Book review – Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils | The Inquisitive Biologist/2017/12/20/book-review-dinosaur-art-2-the-cutting-edge-of-paleoart/comment-page-1/#comment-19648Wed, 26 May 2021 11:35:32 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1380#comment-19648[…] tastefully reproduced in grayscale. He was featured in Dinosaur Art and wrote the introduction to Dinosaur Art 2 where he discussed his Psitaccosaurus reconstruction mentioned here on p. 75. Nicholl’s […]

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By: Book review – Life through the Ages II: Twenty-First Century Visions of Prehistory | The Inquisitive Biologist/2017/12/20/book-review-dinosaur-art-2-the-cutting-edge-of-paleoart/comment-page-1/#comment-10727Fri, 26 Jun 2020 09:43:59 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1380#comment-10727[…] was missing was an introduction to Witton’s method of making art. An interview with him in Dinosaur Art 2 revealed that he primarily works digitally, although to my eyes his works might just as well have […]

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By: Book review – The Palaeoartist’s Handbook: Recreating Prehistoric Animals in Art | The Inquisitive Biologist/2017/12/20/book-review-dinosaur-art-2-the-cutting-edge-of-paleoart/comment-page-1/#comment-1261Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:20:36 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1380#comment-1261[…] and the developments of the last decade (see Dinosaur Art: The World’s Greatest Paleoart and Dinosaur Art 2: The Cutting Edge of Paleoart for some spectacular […]

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