Archaeopteryx On Fishing Trip Canvas Print

Another work in my paleo art series featuring the world's oldest bird.

Did archaeopteryx eat fish? He certainly seems to have had the teeth for it. Though at his size (about the size of a crow), they'd have to be very little fish.

Jurassic Bavaria where the archaeopteryx lived was supposedly a chain of semi-arid islands with few trees. This is in contrast to one of my previous artworks depicting him in a dense forest. So, for this picture, I've thinned the vegetation out a bit. However, this being on a river, some large conifers have carved out an existence on the far bank.

The archaeopteryx model is by Dinoraul and is available at renderosity.com. I posed him using Poser 2010 then exported him to Vue 9 where I created the rest of the scene. Final rendering was done using Vue and some post production was done using Gimp.

Daniel is a classically trained artist. A native of the East Cobb community in the Atlanta Metro area, he majored in art at the University of Georgia and has since accumulated over 25 years of art experience. Most well-known for his scientific illustrations of prehistoric creatures, he is also accomplished in creating Wild West art, fantasy art, wildlife scenes, and horror illustrations. His works have appeared in magazines and newspapers; the covers of books, albums, and products; and even in a few science and natural history museums. Accolades: - Cover of "The Horror Zine Magazine" Summer 2023 - Feature Artist "Wild West Magazine" Summer 2019 - Cover of "Fossil News" Spring 2016 His Illustrations have appeared in - National...