Tyrannosaur (Speed Paint by Anthony Contoleon)

Hi,
I did up an oppotunistic Tyrannosaurus, and got the idea from the following blog post:

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftheropoda.blogspot.com%2F&act=url
http://theropoda.blogspot.com/2011/02/la-teoria-di-campo-unificata-di-horner.html

Cheers,
Anthony

110218; Cau

I couldn't resist the recent Paleoart Why Is Not?
Great subject matter that mirrors discussions we've had here. And here's my paint:
The Steg skull is a photograph. Thought it keeping with the subject.

Speedpaint; Feb18

Tomorrow you not only get to pick an inspirational post by Andrea Cau but also the humor of google's auto translation.

Spread the word!

Amphibians (Speed Paint by Anthony Contoleon)

Here is another one from lunch time in Australia.
http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/12/close-up_to_andrias.php#more

Hope you guys like it,
Cheers
Anthony

Dr. Dromaeosaur (Speed Paint by David Tana)

"Friday Speed Paint! Dr. Dromaeosaur gets frustrated as he grades student papers in his scantily decorated office. Inspired by the post from Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings titled, "What bugged the dinosaurs? Poor research...".

I'm know I'm going to catch some heat for leaving him featherless, but if Jurassic Park taught me anything, it's that the smartest "raptors" didn't have feathers anyway. Plus I only had 30 minutes. Created in Adobe Photoshop CS5 on a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet."

-David Tana

"What Colour Was Anchiornis?"

Any color you like.

Friday Speed Paint David Tana

Sorry this is totally MY bad that this is late, not David's- Craig

I know it's real rough, but here is my submission for the "speed paint" this week. Thanks again for the opportunity to participate!

"Alligators vs watermelon: the final battle"Inspired by Darren Naish's post from Tetrapod Zoology of the same name, an Alligator mississippiensis takes on a pile of Citrullus lanatus. Created with an HB #2 graphite pencil on notebook paper, done on my lunch break in the office in under 30 minutes.

Best,

David Tana

http://www.superoceras.blogspot.com/

Speed Paint: Pink-headed duck and Red-crested pochard: who would win in a fight?

Pink-headed duck and Red-crested pochard: who would win in a fight?
Speed Paint in MS Paint by Mo Hassan

On left:
Pink-headed duck
Rhodonessa caryophyllacea (Latham, 1790)
Anatidae; Anseriformes; Aves; Chordata

On right:
Red-headed pochard
Netta rufina (Pallas, 1773)
Anatidae; Anseriformes; Aves; Chordata

Created using MS Paint in under half an hour, 4th February 2011.
Inspired by the title and content of the Tetrapod Zoology post: Pink-headed duck and Red-crested pochard: who would win in a fight?

Not strictly palaeo-related, but who cares? :P

Shark Seal Speedpaint

Speedpaint Shark and the Carbon Cycle

(pen and pencil crayon, actually!)

Yesterday, David Maas challenged the ART Evolved community to a speedpaint day.  Being super-busy this weekend, I really didn't think I'd be able to participate, but here I am.  Loosely based on this Ask-a-Biologist question, I threw together this sharky piece in 20 minutes during a science 10 class I taught today... though perhaps based more on the Carbon Cycle I was teaching ;)

Guest Speed Paint- Anthony Contoleon

In responses to David's speed paint challenge, Anthony Contoleon sent us this:



This was his response to this topic on Ask a Biologist

Bear V. Shark V. Eagle speed-paint!

Yesterday morning, Dave Maas invited the Art Evolved crew to a Speed Paint challenge, based on questions posed to the extremely useful (and oftentimes unintentionally amusing) website Ask a Biologist. For the unfamiliar, a Speed-Paint is a quick digital (or not) painting finished within a half-hour or less.

For this week's game, I chose this question, because who could resist? "Who would win, a harpy eagle or a grizzly bear?" With this question for the ages and the memory of an excellent satirical book that is more than a little tangentially related in mind, I spent twenty minutes on this:



I will confess I cheated a tiny bit: I just had to double-check on what a Harpy eagle looks like. Wound up mostly going from my memory anyway.

(NOTE: Simulposted at my blog. Also, I apologize for the hugeness; I have since re-sized it. Hopefully, you can click it to see the big version.)