Painting the Menefee Formation Mural at Western Science Center
Finally got around to putting this paleoartprocess video together.
A lot of sketching and research went into this mural, and I’ve posted a BUNCH more process imagery on my patreon. Here are a few sketches and a few pages from a big literature review reference packet I put together.
At some point I think it would be cool to do some scicomm about the amazing paleoecology of the late Cretaceous and what the Cretaceous fossil record tells us about the evolution of our modern tropical and subtropical ecosystems, including many of the clades of flowering plants we humans now rely on for food, timber, rubber, and medicine..
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