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Sean Closson🦖🦕
@coffeeblack.bsky.social
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Illustrator/Paleoartist/Prehistoric Art Beast.

https://linktr.ee/thecoffeeisblack
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Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · Nov 12
I'm happy to be finally able to share this #Stegosaurus commission for The Gaming Beaver a few years ago.

#paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs
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If you are looking for some paleo-themed gift ideas then check out my @redbubble shop.

Get 35% off selected tees for their #BlackFridaySale

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November 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Nothing says #TurkeyDay like a Six Foot Turkey. It's a perfect day for paleo-media! 🦖

youtu.be/4dbfAJEw16U?...
Thanksgiving with Dr Bakker
YouTube video by Matthew Cuellar
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November 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Some more #iceage art because my Thanksgiving 🦃 is #PrehistoricPlanet themed.🦣
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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I watched the first episode of #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge, I loved it. It's amazing to see these animals portrayed in such a realistic fashion. 🦏
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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If you haven't seen the latest episode of Animalogic they discuss the history of debate and the evidence for something the size of #Quetzalcoatlus being able to fly.

Check it out here: youtu.be/xQ3qQ2XjX8s?si…

I was happy to provide some of my art to this one.
November 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Here's a closer look at the art work that I did for The Gaming Beaver's RIVER RUMBLE! Tournament video.

Velociraptor RAPRU and Triceratops TORI.

Check out the video here👇
youtu.be/bzu3ZF2lmMs?si…

It's a fun video and was a fun project to work on🦖
November 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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I started off my day with morning sketches at the Beneski Museum of Natural History at Amherst College.

Dryosaurus altus says hello🎨🦖
November 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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A quick sketch of Troodon, based somewhat on a Secretary Bird.

#dinosaur #sketch #paleoart #sciart #noAI #Pencildrawing #charcoal
October 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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If you have some free time, take a walk on the beach with Kentrosaurus... just be sure to walk closer to the front than the back.
September 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Took a misty morning walk at Fort Popham!

#maine #fortpopham #morningwalk
August 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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I had a dream last night that I saw a small family of Woolly Mammoths🦣 walking through my back yard and I failed to take a picture in time because I couldn't get my shoes tied fast enough to follow them.
August 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Watching Alien: Earth, the Xeno is beast.
a skeleton with a helmet on is dancing in a video game .
ALT: a skeleton with a helmet on is dancing in a video game .
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August 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Almost as good as David James Armsby's incredible animations are his "making of" videos for each one of the Saurian series.

youtu.be/ED_AzSB0BtU?...
Making of | "Terrible Lizards"
YouTube video by Dead Sound
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July 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Another fantastic addition to David James Armsby's fantasic Dinosauria series.

youtu.be/OH57rtnKCEM?...
"Terrible Lizards" | Dinosauria Series | Animated Short Film (2025)
YouTube video by Dead Sound
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July 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Hey hey, it's #Portfolioday!

My name is Sean and I draw dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures.

Check out more of my stuff here:

www.coffeeblackillustration.com
July 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I missed #dinosaurday, but here are some #dinosaurs anyway!!!🦖
June 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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I'm thinking of a large theropod just punting a small prey item to death rather than biting them.

You know, for kicks.🤣🤣🤣
a dolphin is jumping out of the water and a bird is flying in the background .
ALT: a dolphin is jumping out of the water and a bird is flying in the background .
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May 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Fantastic!
markwitton.bsky.social Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · May 23
New #paleoart posted to #Patreon for #FossilFriday: #sauropod Atlasaurus walks through glowing phytoplankton on a pleasant Jurassic evening. The hi-res painting, WIPs and scientific rationale for the scene can be found here: www.patreon.com/posts/129695... #sciart
A long-necked dinosaur, silhouetted against a night sky bisected by the delicate misty swirls of the Milky Way, walks through a sea of glowing blue dinoflagellates. A crescent moon occurs just above her tail. She wonders why no one else wanted to come on this memorable night walk, and then remembers that she is a reconstruction by an artist living over one hundred million years in the future, and that she exists only as pixels on screens. She has no permanence, no physicality. But, in being composed mainly of light, she feels a oneness with the glowing organisms at her feet, and the twinkling stars above. "Are we not all transient, temporary expressions of physics?", she thinks. "And for what I lack in body, I exist here, in this setting, in this moment, forever surrounded by two of nature's grandest spectacles." She walks on, her lighter-coloured scales catching the glow of the stars and waves. "Things could be worse", she thinks, smiling at how deeply philosophical her small sauropod brain has turned out to be.
May 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Coffee Table Squad ☕🦖💀
May 16, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Watching #LoveDeathAndRobots season 4... I knew it was the cats that were ultimately responsible for the robot apocalypse.

#thumbs👍
May 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Just came across the 1985 special Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs on Youtube. This was one of the VHS classics that I personally had on repeat in my house. A great piece of paleomedia that has almost been lost to time. 🦖

youtu.be/CaKRqXWTUoM?...
Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs (1985)
YouTube video by Nearly Lost Media
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May 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Its NEW SKULL DAY! Just got a 1:1 #Velociraptor skull from @rubrennanart.bsky.social

I also picked up his new update on the classic Invicta British Museum of Natural History #Megalosaurus figure from the 1970s.

Get yours at scaledbeast.com

#dinosaur #paleoart #paleontology #sciart #science
May 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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WTF am I looking at? First "dire wolves," and now "T.rex" handbags.

I'm assuming they did this to get money for the actual project, which appears to be lab grown skin to be sustainably harvested and used for clothing and alike.

Feels disingenuous.

www.nbcnews.com/world/world/...
Fearsome to fashion: Your next accessory could be made from real T. rex
Experts say the chances of growing T. rex leather anytime soon look less than likely. When scientists do eventually lab-grow fossilized dinosaur collagen, it will be expensive.
www.nbcnews.com
May 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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I'm currently trying to decide if the annual GNSI Visual Scicomm Conference is worth me going to. I have never been to an event like this but it sounds interesting.

More info if others are interested and didn't know about it:

www.gnsi.org/visual-scico...

#sciart #gnsi #scicomm
www.gnsi.org
April 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Prints and other products featuring my #Dromaeosaurus illustration are on sale on my Redbubble shop.

redbubble.com/shop/ap/170056…

Right now you can get up to 25% off when you shop my stuff.

Check out more here:
coffeeisblack.redbubble.com 🦖🪶#paleoartr#sciartr#dinosauru#humanmadeartrt
April 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM