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"Impasse"

Tyrannosaurus rex, Alamosaurus sanjuanensis. An acrylic painting of a standoff between a large Tyrannosaurus and a titanic Alamosaurus.

The idea for this painting originated from my time at 2015 SVP meeting in Dallas, where I doodled the initial idea in my sketchbook, which Jack Horner (who was coincidentally behind me) saw and said "That's cool." The original sketch differs from this quite a bit and this one is a great improvement on it. The sky and mood were inspired by the wildfires we were having over the summer here in the California. I wanted to capture that smoggy feel of the air we had for so long.

I’ve always liked the idea of these two heavyweights of Maastrichtian North America have a standoff, where neither would engage the other. I did want to make to Alamosaurus look as intimidating as possible in a fairly neutral pose. I did not want it to look over dramatic. This had been an idea I have had for many years, with an early version of this idea (an Alamosaurus walking by a pair of resting young Tyrannosaurs) having been painted in 2013, which I never completed.

I applied a lot of the atmosphere with my airbrushes and went into the little details with color pencils.

I might revisit this idea in the future.

Completed in late September 2018.

Done using acrylics, color pencils and Photoshop CC.

Description

"Impasse"

Tyrannosaurus rex, Alamosaurus sanjuanensis. An acrylic painting of a standoff between a large Tyrannosaurus and a titanic Alamosaurus.

The idea for this painting originated from my time at 2015 SVP meeting in Dallas, where I doodled the initial idea in my sketchbook, which Jack Horner (who was coincidentally behind me) saw and said "That's cool." The original sketch differs from this quite a bit and this one is a great improvement on it. The sky and mood were inspired by the wildfires we were having over the summer here in the California. I wanted to capture that smoggy feel of the air we had for so long.

I’ve always liked the idea of these two heavyweights of Maastrichtian North America have a standoff, where neither would engage the other. I did want to make to Alamosaurus look as intimidating as possible in a fairly neutral pose. I did not want it to look over dramatic. This had been an idea I have had for many years, with an early version of this idea (an Alamosaurus walking by a pair of resting young Tyrannosaurs) having been painted in 2013, which I never completed.

I applied a lot of the atmosphere with my airbrushes and went into the little details with color pencils.

I might revisit this idea in the future.

Completed in late September 2018.

Done using acrylics, color pencils and Photoshop CC.