Dinosaurs & other prehistoric animals have always fascinated people but they pose vast problems for the artist How do you go about recreating the anatomy & behaviour of a creature we've never seen? How can we restore landscapes long lost to time? & where does the boundary between palaeontology
- the science of understanding fossils- & artistic licence lie? In this outstanding book Mark Witton shares his detailed paintings & great experience of drawing & painting extinct species The approaches used in rendering these impressive creatures are discussed & demonstrate the problems as well as the unexpected freedoms that palaeontological artists are faced with The book showcases over ninety scientifically credible paintings of some of the most spectacular animals in the Earth's history as well as may less familiar species