THERIZINOSAUR 1 - LIVE FOR ART EVOLVED- LINO BLOCK

Today I'm going to be working live (or half dead, as I'm feeling right now) on a lino print of a Therizinosaur for ArtEvolved's live blog spot.

It's 9:45 GMT and a beautiful sunny day for a change. Lots of natural light which is good because I'm not going to be able to see my image at all well on this dark grey lino! I've not used this kind before- more plasticy than the original sort I used to use as at college.

I'm ready with my preliminary studies ( basically a skeleton I downloaded with a flesh outline...a cheat I know but time is short!) I've tried various poses with this animal but found that a straight forward profile will fit the A4 lino best and I want a nice simple image.

I'm not sure whose work the actual skeleton is so apologies to the artist- hope you don't mind me using this to get an overall shape to my beasty?

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.