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Rhamporhynchus Muensteri 🎨 🖍️

Behind this barbaric name lies a small pterosaur... An adorable physiognomy that I have reconstructed in drawing from existing fossils!

🦖 It is neither a bird nor a dinosaur.
🐦 No feathers or scales, but a rather special coat of hair called pycnofibres
🦇 Membranous wings, supported by the 4th finger, which is particularly long

Loved working on this black rhino drawing. Played with textures, subtle tones, and even used a small makeup brush for clouds. I chose to indent paper for the grass over skin on the feet with an empty .3mm pencil! Did you know a group of rhinos is called a “crash”. #sciart

Rhamporhynchus Muensteri 🎨 🖍️

Derrière ce nom barbare se cache un petit ptérosaure, dont j'ai reconstitué en dessin le physique et l'adorable physionomie à partir des fossiles existants !
🦖 Ce n'est ni un oiseau, ni un dinosaure.
🐦 Ni plumes ni écailles donc, mais un pelage un peu spécial de poils appelés pycnofibres ! 
🦇 Des ailes membraneuses, notamment soutenues par le 4e doigt, particulièrement long

Thinking about pollinators, so sharing a favourite. This is a hand-printed lino block print of the charming Hummingbird Clearwing moth (Hermaris thysbe) seeking pollen from cherry blossoms. The olive-headed burgundy moth has transparent wings (though colour can be variable). It beats its wings rapidly to hover above flowers, like a hummingbird, meaning it is often confused with a hummingbird or bee. It has a 5 cm wingspan. 🧵

Continued thread

a jumble of Feynman diagrams and coloured shapes with a Bauhaus feel.

#linocut #printmaking #physics #Bauhaus #quantumMechanics #FeynmanDiagram #penguinDiagram #particlePhysics #sciart #WorldQuantumDay

*I am somewhat dubious of this date because a) I was trained to use the metric convention day/month/year and b) physicists use the reduced constant h-bar (that’s h divided by 2 pi) and then, cause it’s easier they just change units such that h-bar = 1 but it’s as good an excuse as any

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax - Palaeontologist & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "Froghopper sex" shows a pair of Anthoscytina perpetua engaging in Jurassic sex.