Recreating an Age of Reptiles

Auteurs

• Mark P. Witton

Paramètres

• Art
• Art / Culture
• Dinosaures
• Nonfiction

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"Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals have always fascinated people but they pose vast problems for the artist. How do you recreate the anatomy and behaviour of a creature we've never seen? How can we restore landscapes long lost to time? And where does the boundary between palaeontology -- the science of understanding fossils -- and artistic licence lie? In this outstanding book, Mark Witton shares his detailed paintings and great experience of drawing and painting extinct species. The approaches used in rendering these impressive creatures are discussed and demonstrate the problems, as well as the unexpected freedoms, that palaeontological artists are faced with"--Back cover

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• Année de publication: 2017
• Reliure: (souple)