Welcome to ART Evolved's March Gallery: Terror Birds!
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Enjoy!
If you want to add your piece to the Terror Bird Gallery, send in your art to artevolved@gmail.com!
Terror Bird Attack sketchpaint by Glendon Mellow
An Unusually Tender Titanis by Trish Arnold
Dapper Phorusrhacos by Trish Arnold
Hypothetical Juvenile Phorusrhacos by Taylor Reints
Late Miocene Patagonia by Bill Unzen
During the late Miocene, a pair of Devincenzia pozzi dominate the carcass of the giant sloth Pyramiodontherium scillatoyanei. The scene attracts assorted scavengers including the adjutant stork Leptoptilos patagonicus, the giant teratorn Argentavis magnificens, and the sabre-toothed metatherian Thylacosmilus atrox. All species represented are known from the Messinian (Montehermosan) Age of Argentina approximately 6 million years ago.
Devincenzia pozzi by Bill Unzen
Patagornis marshi by Bill Unzen
Kelenken guillermoi by Bill Unzen
Kelenken guillermoi by David Tana
This phorusrhacid lived in Argentina around 15 million years ago during the Middle Miocene. With one of (if not) the largest bird skulls known, this animal was an agile, active hunter, but probably wouldn't have turned down a free mean if it stumbled across one. Created in Adobe Photoshop CS5 on a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet.
Terror Bird! by Craig Dylke
A Sketch and Colour Version of Paraphysornis brasiliensis by vultur-10
No More Feathered Terror Birds by Albertonykus
Read Albertonykus' rant on feathered terror birds here!
(sketching without references = nostril in the wrong place!)
Terror Bird Classroom Sketch #2 by Peter Bond
A Really Really Big Bird by Peter Bond
Phorusrhacos longissimus by Mo Hassan
Digital illustration created using photograph and MS Paint.
Terror Bird by Christopher Hutson
Kelenken by Sarah Snell-Pym
Kelenken is one of the largest of the heavy set meat eating Terror Birds, found in Argentina. The bird dates from 15 million years ago. The drawing is a just a rough out line of what I think the bird looked liked.
Terror Birds by Smnt2000
(left to right) Titanis walleri, Kelenken guillermoi, Dromornis stirtoni and Gastornis giganteus.
And there we have it, ladies and gentlemen! The end of this month's Time Capsule: Terror Birds!
The next gallery opened will be Hadrosaurs on May 1st! We expect a massive turn-out for this popular dinosaur group, so get out the paints and pixels and send in your Hadrosaur Art to artevolved@gmail.com!
11 comments:
Lots of good artwork (as always), but somehow there doesn't appear to be as many submissions as past galleries.
Terrific gallery. Bill Unzen, where have you been hiding? Links to a gallery please! Dude!
Bond's Big Bird has destroyed my childhood. Thanks Peter.
Albertonykus: quality over quantity I'd say.
Great stuff. I'm glad to see the terror birds getting a bit of attention.
Just one little paleo nitpick: I notice that a few of the terror birds have claws. They shouldn't. This idea was based upon the idea that Titanis might have had a big thumb claw, but has since been tossed out (see my post here: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/02/terror-birds-aint-what-they-used-to-be-a-titanis-take-down/)
That aside, there's some great stuff here. I especially like Trish's tender Titanis family! :)
Missing word in there: "hand claws." Obviously they had formidable talons on their feet!
Great stuff from everyone involved!
Amazing stuff. Really like Bill Unzen's haunting drawings. What media are they done in Bill? And also,as always, found great delight in Peter Bonds sketches.
I'm annoyed that I did not have time to finish my bird. I just couldnt get it right this time. I have been a fan of terror birds since I was a child and somehow cant seem to top those old text book paintings I grew up with.
I'm inspired by the gallery to carry on though. Thanks chaps.
Thanks for the comments,
The head profiles are pencil with a digital hue, and the carcass scene is pencil colored with pencils, paint, ink, and digital.
I drew these phorusrhacids about a year ago and they were the first drawings I had done since high school. I haven’t accumulated enough to justify a gallery at this point.
Great stuff... Couldn't be left out!
Fought my collapsing infrastructure to get at least a paint out...
http://www.drip.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/terrorbird.jpg
wow
Late Miocene patagonia looks really cool!
Very nice drawings. Haven't seen this kind of stuff before. Thanks for sharing:-)
And these big birdies were at the top of the foodchain but still they were probibly tender parents toward their chicks
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