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

Some photos of the painting process.

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.

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.

Lastly, while struthiosaurid ankylosaurs are also known from the latest Cretaceous of the western Late Cretaceous European Archipelago (i.e. Ibero-Armorica), there they disappear at the 'Mid'-Maastrichtian Dinosaur Turnover, showing that Haţeg Island fauna evolved unaffected by this change.

that ankylosaurs first show up in the fossil record of the Transylvanian Basin and only later in the Haţeg Basin.
This observation is also found, but with new stratigraphic ranges:

TB: latest Campanian to 'mid' Maastrichtian
HB: earliest Maastrichtian to late Maastrichtian.

which has lead to theories that they lived environmentally seggregated and/or outside the typically preserved fluvial-floodplain environments of the Haţeg and Transylvanian basins.

However, ankylosaurs are now known from most important sites of both basins and with almost uniformly low ...

To provide a brief summary: We described a new ankylosaurian scapula from the Maastrichtian 'Pui Beds' of the famous Haţeg Basin, Romania.

And based on thorough morphological comparisons - with a high degree of similarities to Struthiosaurus transylvanicus - assign it to Struthiosaurus sp.

#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