Year 4 of the 52-Week Illustration Challenge, Week 2

Week 2: Feathered animal.

Watercolour painting of an extinct, feathered Velociraptor, based on my own photograph of a model featured in the Tyrannosaurs exhibit of 2013 at the Australian Museum, Sydney. Highlights and shading in white pigment Signo, watercolour pencils and black finepoint Sharpie. In 2010, scientists discovered proof that many dinosaurs had feathers and, through a study of fossilised melanosomes (pigment-bearing organelles), they were able to ascertain some of the feather colours of Chinese dinosaurs!

Of mammoth proportions

Mammoths on display at The Australian Museum, Sydney. Teachers' preview last night!








Recreation of a 300-bone Mizyn hut made of 273 mammoth bones, from 30 different mammoths (plus deer antlers and animal skins) on display at The Australian Museum, Sydney.