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Regardless of the poorly known paleobotany that some artists avoid, Douglas Henderson's pastel or B/W compositions are haunting, spacious and lush with greenery. Innovative in the sense that dinosaurs are almost upstaged by their surroundings, treated as shadowy secondary subjects moving past a downed tree in the foreground, just scuttling past in the underbrush, backlit against a threatening sky or ambling off in the distance. Henderson's dinosaurs are themselves dwarfed by their landscapes (i.e. iguanodonts, 1985) or herds moving seen from bird's-eye (or pterosaur's-eye) aerial views. He was inspired by 19th century landscape artists like Thomas Moran and William Turner and spent years sketching to achieve his now recognizable style.  In the 1990s he turned to restoring extinct life before and after the dinosaurs, invertebrates, mammals and sea life, but consciously avoided feathered species. Instantly recognizable whether color or black and white, Henderson's body of work is probably the most diverse and prolific under Burian and Knight. The first book to show maiasaur family units exclusively illustrated by Henderson was Maia: A Dinosaur Grows Up (1984), which happens to be the only time he ever did what could be called a 'close-up'.

...Every artist is going a find a different solution to the same task.  For me, I want to see an illustration as representing a place, large or small.  If you can play with light (and color), compose original scenes and poises and well present data new and old together, that’s an end to reach toward.

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Отредактировано zamolksis (07 May 2014 02:40:08)