Laura Cunningham

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After finishing a couple of large conservation projects I am finally inspired to work on my long-time #book project: #Pleistocene of Western North America. This book is finally going to happen. #paleoart Columbian mammoth, oil on panel detail #mammoths #art #paleontology

23/03/04 14:22

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I’ve been working on a special project about past landscapes and geology. I think it might finally get me spurred to write my booklet on how to draw block diagrams. #illustration #geology #topomaps

22/12/18 03:06

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My favorite dinosaurs: basal sauropodomorphs, such as these Sarahsaurus from early Jurassic of AZ, foraging on playa edge with cycadophytes. Work in progress. Underpainting of red earth and sky, waiting for me to have time to work on it more. Oil on panel #paleoart

22/04/10 03:13

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Trying to imagine what it would be like to observe a gigantic sauropod (Apatosaurus) walk by if I was hiking through a cycadophyte-fern savanna in Jurassic Morrison Formation. Elephants cannot compare. I used clay models to get perspective. #paleoart

22/02/07 11:53

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My painting of San Francisco Bay 20,000 yrs ago for my children’s book (out of print). Giant waterfall like Niagara at golden gate from Sac-SanJoaquin river pouring over cliff before Bay existed. Columbian Mammoth, bison, horse, camel. #pleistocene #paleoart

20/05/18 14:42

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Time for a #paleoart break: my past drawings of Pleistocene CA megafauna. Dirk-tooth cat, Equus occidentalis, Hemiauchenia llama, Camelops, Columbian mammoth, Glossotherium giant grnd sloth, teratorn. Someday a book: Ice Age California

18/09/27 10:55