Dinosaur in a Space suit

He cannot say with certitude that this is not part of his body.

Happy Belated Birthday Tim!!

Tim always amazes me, I wonder if he is really human sometimes. I had a great time drawing for fun at the natural history museum with Tim, Simon, Becky and George the other day, we should do this more often! :)

A Day at the Museum - Dem Bones

So as George has informed you all, we spent much of yesterday at the American Natural History Museum. Which is a wonderful place, full of wonders and MANY people too. Nevertheless we drew many fine sets of bones.

We started off in the prehistoric Mammals, this is as Gomphoterium, an ancestor of the modern Elephant.

Then I drew an ancient ground dwelling Sloth named after George Cuvier.

Then there was an amazing predator called the Amphigon or 'Ambiguous Dog' a massive Bear/Dog combo type thing.

Then I drew the Timitherium Megahamiltonii, though obviously a different sample from the one George Drew.

Then we moved onto Theropod Dinosaurs. This is a Ceratorsaurus skull. You can see the bony ridges where the nasal horns would have attached.

I did a marker sketch of one birdlike dinosaur and one dinosaur like bird.

Then we finish off with the schoolboys favourite Tyrannosaurus Rex.
It was a great day , we should do it again sometime.

Really Old Bones: Tim Hamilton

Happy berfday, you old bastid!

Old Bones: Three horn face

Things were a mite bit slow on the bridge yesterday-- that was because, like, 90% of our regularly contributing members were on our dino drawing field trip. Simon, Tim, Becky, Robin and I made the trek to the Museum of Natural History to check out their new Sauropod exhibit (along with, like Tim mentioned, pretty much every family in NYC with a kid under 8 years old). The Sauropod exhibit was pretty cool, but it can't hold a candle to the permanent fossil collection, and we all made many cool drawings.

For me the king of dinos is the Triceratops, so much so that when everyone else left, I stayed behind to draw this study of one's skull. So cool.

If I had a Triceratops... you'd all pay.



Check out a bunch more sketches of old bones here at my own blog.