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printmaking + paleoart. e/they, 27, NYC
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#dinovember 3: Corythosaurus
a digital portrait of a crested duckbill dinosaur, Corythosaurus. it has gray-green scales with white patches on its face and a darker brown snout.
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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#dinovember 2: an unexpectedly punk-bisexaul Meraxes
a gouache portrait of a theropod dinosaur in the process of swallowing a sauropodlet whole. it is a purple-blue color with a heavily wrinkled dewlap and pink spikes along its snout.
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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sunny AF in the morrison formation sometimes 😎
a photo of an ostrich facing the camera. the bird has many long, fine feathers to shade its eyes from the sun.
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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#Dinovember day 1: Camarasaurus portrait in gouache

starting a week behind on this challenge but better late than never! #paleoart
a painting of the face of a sauropod dinosaur, in orange and sienna tones with white patches on its cheeks and nose. in the corner of the image there is a small marker drawing of the dinosaur sitting in the shade of a gnarled tree.
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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i still have DINOCUTS (dinosaur linocuts) available on my online store, along with digital #paleoart prints! go to the link below to use the code ‘DINOCUTS’ for purchases of 3 or more individual prints. #sciart #printmaking #dinosaurs
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a set of 6 linocut prints in black ink on tan paper. from left to right, the prints show: a Deinonychus with wings outspread, a group of ostrich dinosaurs, a Parasaurolophus framed by clouds, a stegosaur, a soaring Pteranodon, and a Borealopelta wading through shallow water.
October 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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thunderlizard #sciart #paleoart #dinosaurs
a digital painting of a Brontosaurus in 3/4 view with a tall thundercloud in the background sky.
October 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Velociraptor mongoliensis
(prints here: store.cypressure.ink/product/velo...)

#sciart #paleoart #dinosaur
a digital illustration of a Velociraptor sitting like a vulture, with its heels flat against the ground. it has light brown plumage shading darker on the wings and back, and its head is featherless, with dark grey, wrinkled skin.
August 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Raptor Red portrait (Utahraptor ostrommaysi). this book was so formative for me and i still think of her all the time #sciart #paleoart #dinosaur #utahraptor

prints here: store.cypressure.ink/product/rapt...
a digital illustration showing the head of a raptor dinosaur, with stripey brown feathers and a red patch on her snout
August 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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prints of this Yutyrannus illustration are also available at my store!
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#sciart #paleoart #dinosaur
a digital illustration of a large theropod dinosaur hunting baby sauropods. the tyrannosaur has a bright yellow-and-orange face with wrinkled, lumpy skin around its throat, and a body covered in short gray and black feathers. it is holding one small sauropod in its mouth, while three others flee from its claws through the ferns.
July 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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scribbly Tyrannosaurus rex portrait (I think from AMNH 5027?) #trex #sciart #paleoart #dinosaurs
A detailed black and white line drawing depicting the face of Tyrannosaurus rex. The lines are densely packed, creating a textured appearance that suggests the rough, scaly skin of the Tyrannosaurus.
July 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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tumblr loves this Kentrosaurus drawing, maybe bluesky will as well? #sciart #paleoart #dinosaur

prints available here: buff.ly/oMiO0d1
a digital illustration of an armored dinosaur wading across a shallow body of water in a forest. the water is covered in a layer of bright green algae, which is sticking to the flanks of the dinosaur and making swirling, spiraling patterns in its wake.
July 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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big news for people who like images of dinosaurs—I now have physical prints of select digital paleoart illustrations available in my online shop! go here to check them out: store.cypressure.ink/
a photo of a collection of paleoart prints laid out on a flat surface.
July 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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#maysozoic no. 1: Ceoptera, a darwinopterid pterosaur from the Middle Jurassic. trying out a randomly generated list of taxa for this year's challenge!

#paleoart #sciart #pterosaur
a black-and-white digital illustration of a pterosaur standing in some ferns on the floor of a misty forest. it has a relatively small, rounded crest and a long tail; another pterosaur is faintly visible flying through the fog in the background.
May 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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i heard Aquilops was starring in some movie soon? well, i know who's going to have my oscar vote #dinosaurs #sciart #jurassicworldrebirth
a digital illustration of an Aquilops, a small basal horned dinosaur, peeking out of a layer of ferns. he has a blue face with a white stripe across his cheek, a tiny hooked beak with a red crest, and large cute eyes.
April 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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"Limestone Bird"—my first ever stone lithograph and my first ever professionally published print—will be released at this fair with Shoestring Press! If you're in NYC this weekend, come out and say hi :D
a photo of a person in an art studio holding up a print and smiling at the camera. the artist (Em) is white and bearded and wears glasses and a black t-shirt that says "85 million years in the making"; the print is a lithograph of an Archaeopteryx floating in abstract organic squiggles, bordered by an assemblage of light brown shapes like a broken fossil slab. a close up photo of the print, showing the Archaeopteryx's black-and-white patterned feathers and its head curled over its back. its eyes are closed.
March 25, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Thescelosaurus, Sauroposeidon, and Vespersaurus from last Friday's #paleostream!

#paleoart #dinosaurs #sciart
a digital illustration in browns and blacks of a dinosaur investigating a hole in some tree roots. only its head and one arm can be seen through the ferns surrounding it. a digital illustration of a huge sauropod dinosaur, wading in flowing water that reaches up to its shoulders. a digital drawing in red ink of a theropod dinosaur in a desert valley. it has short arms, a bristly feather crest, and is tossing a lizard in the air to eat.
March 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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AMNH 5060: The Flood is a large woodcut I made in 2022-3, depicting the famous Edmontosaurus "dinomummy" at @natural-history.bsky.social.

The same drought which killed the animal naturally mummified its body, and so even after millions of years its scaly skin still clings to its bones.

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A black and white print of a duckbill dinosaur carcass lying on a floodplain with a shallow covering of water. One of its front legs sticks up into the air and its head is upturned so that the underside of its skull is visible. Its chest is torn open and entrails fall out into the water. Beneath the large dinosaur, a small bird washes itself and another perches on a piece of driftwood.
March 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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so last week I got to meet one of my favorite science authors, @restingdinoface.bsky.social at the NYC launch of her latest book! When the Earth Was Green is a fantastic look at the interconnectedness btwn us (speaking as a human animal) and plants and I already know I'll be revisiting it a lot.
a photo of a book titled "When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance" by Riley Black, on a desk. the cover has various extinct animals surrounded by plants on a black background. a photo of two white trans people in a bookshop, both smiling at the camera and holding up books.
March 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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borealopelta cooling herself in the shallows. one of a series of 3x3" linocuts

#printpromptmonday #water
#paleoart #sciart
a small black linocut print on tan paper, with a silhouette of an armored dinosaur from above, surrounded by ripples
March 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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from last month: Dearc portrait

thanks to @nataliajagielska.bsky.social @stevebrusatte.bsky.social et al for the muscle reconstructions in their recent study of this guy! hugely useful for this piece #paleoart #sciart #pterosaur
a digital illustration of a pterosaur scratching its beak with its hand claws. it has a yellow-tipped bill with large teeth poking out at odd angles, bare pink skin on its face, and fuzzy white and gray feathering over its bulky neck.
March 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Eryops, Mahuidacursor, Plateosaurus, and Koreaceratops from a very good #paleostream last night!

#paleoart #dinosaurs #sciart
a monochrome digital ink drawing of a large Eryops, a prehistoric amphibian looking like a fat crocodile, emerging from a a pool in a misty forest a digital painting of Mahuidacursor, a bipedal ornithopod, standing in orange-pink bushes. the dinosaur is dark green with a bright red throat and light green fuzz along its back and tail. a digital painting of a Plateosaurus walking through a marsh. in the foreground is the skeleton of another sauropod, half-buried in mud. the illustration is in dark reds and browns with green highlights in the water, plants, and the throat of the dinosaur. a digital illustration of a small horned dinosaur, Koreaceratops, rampant in a threat display. it is raising its tail to show off its large brush of quills and opening its large beak.
February 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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happy 200th Iguanodon! here are some doodles from a couple weeks back to celebrate the event
#Iguanodon #paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs
a page of digital ink drawings of the dinosaur Iguanodon, featuring three portraits with varying amounts of speculative soft tissue and a silhouette of the animal. the Iguanodon on the far left has a fleshy wattle on its nose and an inflatable sack under its chin, the one on the far right is plain and almost shrink-wrapped, and the one in the middle is somewhere in the middle. the drawings are in a dark red-brown on a pale cream ground.
February 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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feels like this print took so long to make! many trials over the course of the process (related and unrelated to the print itself) and im glad to have an edition of it finally complete in my hands. and not least because i think it is a very good print
a detailed image of the print, showing the delicate lines inked in black which make up the auk in contrast to the abstract bubbles, drips, and brushstrokes in the soap ground, inked in green which changes from olive-green to blue-green below the auk's head. an uncropped photo of the print pinned to a wall. the creamy-white paper is about a third larger than the plate, leaving margins a few inches wide on all sides of the image area. from a distance, the vertically oriented composition of the waves stands out against the horizontal white space of the auk's upturned belly, and the border between the different shades of green recedes in importance.
January 31, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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A Great Auk caught in a fishing line. intaglio print with hard ground etching + soap ground aquatint, single plate inked in colors. #SciArt #printmaking #birds
a print in shades of green and black of a dead bird, floating or falling into turbulent water. the bird is an auk, a large flightless waterbird that looks like a penguin, and is wrapped in thin rope or wire that leads up off the top of the image and to the edge of the platemark.
January 31, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Velociraptor sitting politely
#dinosaurs #paleoart
a digital illustration of a Velociraptor sitting like a vulture, with its heels flat against the ground. it has light brown plumage shading darker on the wings and back, and its head is featherless, with dark grey, wrinkled skin.
January 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM