http://www.salaric.co.uk Handy Craft Addict Inflicting Art on Others Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:58:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Via twitter we found a great local site to us called GlosWhatsOn - they are basically a directory for stuff that is going on in our county and they have been so useful to us with Arts and Crafts (and keeping small children entertained during the holidays!).  They cover many ... http://www.salaric.co.uk/?p=248 Since finding the paleo-art community Art Evolved I have begun to think about dinosaurs in 3D - what I wanted was a Wiggly Pet, dino cross which is what I think I have achieved here with these little critters and yes I am aware that they are not all dinosaurs! It ... http://www.salaric.co.uk/?p=255 Well... erm... I sort of tidied up the house and have sort of erm... misplaced my cable for uploading photographs to the laptop :/ I have taken step by step photos of the process so far but can't show you the results because I am a scatter brained mousse :/ But basically ... http://www.salaric.co.uk/?p=241 I decided that the description of Therizinosaurs mouths and nose sounded similar to camels and I think this would go with the browsing behaviour they are thought to have had. So I decided to draw the giant prehistoric camel from the kids how to draw book. I did the pencil ... http://www.salaric.co.uk/?p=240 I chose to draw an archaeopteryx next as it has feathers on it would appear that Therizinosaurs had feathers! Again the outline came from the kids how to draw dinosaurs book. I did a pencil construction using all the simple geometric shapes, then inked in an outline discovering feathers ... http://www.salaric.co.uk/?p=239 I picked this dinosaur to draw from the How To Draw Dinosaurs book because was the closest in there to Therizinosaurs - obviously the rib cage flares out on Therizinosaurs and stuff like that but it is somewhere to start! Plus I've drawn the grand total of two dinosaurs before this ... http://www.salaric.co.uk/?p=237 I'm using two different sizes of sketch book for this project - the large one is A4 and were I'll do the later sketches the smaller A5 is were I want to do sketches of animals I think will help me construct the Therizinosaur. Anyway I flicked through the books and ... http://www.salaric.co.uk/?p=236 Well I decided to go and hunt out some books that I thought would help me draw the Therizinosaurs, these are Vertebrate Palaeontology (Michael J. Benton), an ancient book called Fossil Amphibians and Reptiles (W. E. Swinton), Draw 50 Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals (Lee J. Ames), and Animal Anatomy ... http://www.salaric.co.uk/?p=235 I haven't blogged on here for a while but do not fear this has been due to being too productive rather than being unproductive and I shall go and fill in the archive when I get a moment! Also I know the posts normally arrive on a Sunday but I have ... http://www.salaric.co.uk/?p=234 I took some pale lilic A4 mounting card and folded it in four to make the 'card blank'. I then used a snowflake stamp and light blue ink pad to print the snowflakes on the bottom of the card in a diagonal. I did several off these - ... http://www.salaric.co.uk/?p=100