Cetiosaurus oxoniensis - The Herd

These two sections belong to one whole- annoyingly, I can't scan the whole thing or piece it together in potoshop without a seam appearing in the picture.

A local jurassic dinosaur herd depicted here. Remains of Cetiosaurs have been found in Oxfordshire England and can be seen in the Oxford University's Natural History Museum.

This painting was constructed for the ARTevolved sauropod gallery. Check it out for more gigantic beasts.

9. FINISHED CAMARASAURUS

Bloody hell it's done. I never want to see another scale again.

8. NEARLY THERE

Teeth in and ready for action. Coming together now.

7.NO TEETH!

Gumasaurus! He lost his teeth in a fight last night- and his tongue apparently

Gave the background another coat of paint so lost the teeth. They weren't quite right anyway. The tongue was wrong wrong wrong- so I took it out. More scales.

Been working at this since about 8.30 this morning. 10 o'clock am now. Really looking forward to seeing what the guys at ART Evolved are going to be doing today.

Right- let's put those teeth back in shall we!?

6. AND MORE SCALES

Well I've been at this now for 6.5 hrs- give or take a tea break or 5. There's no way I will finish this today as the light is beginning to fade and I can't mix colours in electric light. That's where computer artists have the upper hand.

Anyway it's getting there. I won't post again today but will be back 10 am tomorrow GMT.

Tara for now. Glass of wine is calling.

5. MORE SCALES

75 scales, 3 cups of tea and a cheese roll later.

4. STARTING TO ADD THE DETAIL

Just starting to add scales now. Very fiddly and time consuming. This is where I'm glad I didn't do a larger piece. At this point normally I start doubting myself. It's difficult to carry on until I reach a point where I can see it all coming together. Not quite there yet.

This is the no-mans land stage of painting.

Be back soon. need food.