It has become a bit of a tradition for me to miss social media portfolio days, so, as usual, here's my contribution one day late.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2023 Dom Coyote, the Bristol Old Vic, and Dr Jakob Vinther (Uni of Bristol) produced THE COLOUR OF DINOSAUR musical show for children, which featured my life-size model of Psittacosaurus. It is still going strong!
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A teaser for our book, THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, UNEARTHING THE REAL BEHAVIOURS OF PREHISTORIC ANIMALS, written by Dr Dean Lomax, illustrated in colour by me, & published by Columbia University Press.
Out September 2025. Pre-order now!
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A teaser for our THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, UNEARTHING THE REAL BEHAVIOURS OF PREHISTORIC ANIMALS, by Dr Dean Lomax, illustrated in colour by me, & published by Columbia University Press.
Out September 2025. Pre-order now!
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Pterosaurs #Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Dinosaur #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Fossils #JurassicWorld #JurassicWorldRebirth #Psittacosaurus
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A Psittacosaurus creche (fossils show these babies lived in groups possibly with an adult carer), from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR (2023), by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press).
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2020 I illustrated DINOSAURS: NEW VISIONS OF A LOST WORLD, written by Prof Mike Benton. Here's Psittacosaurus and a few babies.
https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/dinosaurs-new-visions-of-a-lost-world-hardcover
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Dinosaurs are not what you thought they were—or at least, they didn’t look like you thought they did. The world-leading paleontologist Michael J. Benton brings us a new visual guide to the world of the dinosaurs, showing how rapid advances in technology and amazing new fossil finds have changed the way we see these extinct beasts forever. Stunning new illustrations by paleoartist Bob Nicholls display the latest and most exciting scientific discoveries in vibrant color. From Sinosauropteryx, the first dinosaur to have its color patterns identified—a ginger-and-white striped tail—by Benton’s team at the University of Bristol in 2010, to recent research on the surprising mixed feathers and scales of Kulindadromeus, this is one of the first books to include cutting-edge scientific research in paleontology. Each chapter focuses on a particular extinct species, featuring a specially commissioned illustration that brings to life the latest scientific breakthroughs, with accompanying text exploring how paleontologists have determined new details, such as the patterns on skin and the colors of feathers of animals that lived millions of years ago. This visual compendium surprises and challenges everything you thought you knew about what dinosaurs looked like and how they lived.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's the press release artwork that accompanied our 2020 paper, which was the world's first published description of a dinosaur cloaca. You can read the paper here: https://www.cell.com/curre.../fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31891-1
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It's FossilFriday! And for my 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2020 I co-authored the world's first published description of a dinosaur cloaca. Our paper received lots of media attention, here's a screen grab of a punchline by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert...
You can read the paper here: https://www.cell.com/curre.../fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31891-1
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Psittacosaurus #FossilFriday
It's #FossilFriday! And for my 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2020 I co-authored the world's first published description of a dinosaur cloaca. Our paper received lots of media attention, here's the coverage from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert!
You can read the paper here: https://www.cell.com/curre.../fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31891-1
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Psittacosaurus
It's #FossilFriday! And for my 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2020 I co-authored the world's first published description of a dinosaur cloaca. Here's my press release artwork and my reconstruction figures.
You can read the paper here: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31891-1
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Psittacosaurus
Bob Nicholls Art