Ovislav der Schreckliche, shepard of all those who are lost wandering, wishes a sorrowless #Halloween to any souls, that may deserve it 🎃

Portrait of my best friend.

#acrylicpainting
>50 h
01.08.2025 - 07.09.2025

Really moved out of my comfort zone with this piece, but I'm quite proud. Might have been my most difficult painting yet, since I had to get her face right, the detail and the lighting.

It was a pain, but a lot of fun.

Great news! Plesionectes longicollum is a new genus and species of plesiosaur from Holzmaden, Germany.
www.sachspal.de/plesionectes...

This paleoart features two Plesionectes hunting near a colony of Seirocrinus.

Digital painting by Peter Nickolaus, 2025.

Following my last post, a reconstruction of a #struthiosaurid had to follow.

So, here you have my take on Struthiosaurus sp. from Pui in the #HategBasin (of course entirely based on S. austriacus and S. transylvanicus).

Now I may never draw an ankylosaur again... osteoderms and scales are pain.

T. Treiber et al. (2025)
New report of Late Cretaceous struthiosaurids from the Haţeg Basin, with an overview of the Transylvanian ankylosaur fossil record
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)
doi: doi.org/10.1007/s125...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I'm very pleased to announce that my first paper (as first author) has officialy been published two days ago :)

"New report of Late Cretaceous struthiosaurids from the Haţeg Basin, with an overview of the Transylvanian ankylosaur fossil record"

Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Allosaurus enjoying the first light of the sun on a Late Jurassic Morning.

Old #Paleoart piece from December 2020, done with acrylic paint.

Besides PaleoArt, I also go fossil-hunting from time to time, and one outcrop that I visit quite often is in the uppermost Muschelkalk, Middle Triassic.

Besides the brachiopod Coenothyris vulgaris and a single Ceratites cf. weyeri, there are barley any fossils there though.
I mainly went in the...

Honourable Mention in the 2nd VPC Paleoart Contest 🥳

Truly honoured and surprised by this amazing result.

My thanks and gratitude go out to the 5th VPC team.

Huge congratulations to the other winners and everyone who entered

Non-palaeo related piece for #valentinesday2025.

"Mondlicht"
ca. 21 h / Acryl
03.-12.08.2021

An old piece, but still one of my favourite paintings, especially because of the lighting, mood and the vegetation... definitely the vegetation, still love it!

Xenoceratops foremostensis

Somehow the only time I ever drew a #ceratopsian properly. Have not touched onto the group since...

#paleoart

Merry #Christmas2024 to all 🎄

Have a festive little #rhabdodontid to celebrate :)

Small painting of the #belemnite Parapassaloteuthis zieteni for my own little collection.
The belemnite rostra were collected from the #toarcian #Posidoniashale of Dotternhausen, Germany.

May as well start out the same way here, as in the old place. Not the lifestyle concept I follow for Ceratites but one I find fun :)

"Ceratites nodosus" according to Siegfried Rein

- Simosaurus gaillardoti
- Ceratites weyeri
- Coenothyris vulgaris

ca. 12h/Acrylic
02.-07.09.2020