Veles Paleoart

Here's my recent painting of the Gippsland Basin, Australia, during the early Aptian. It was the first of two artworks created for Vera Korasidis & Barbara Wagstaff, at The University of Melbourne. Palaeo-plants don't get much love on social media, but I consider these two paintings among my best. They both took weeks to create, for the paper "Cool-temperate riparian floras in the Early Cretaceous rift valley of Victoria, Australia" (Korasidis 2025: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2025.2489614#abstract). Please enjoy the details, they required a lot of work!

photograph by Piotr Naskrecki

Dornraptor normani enjoying the sunshine in England during the Early Jurassic.

Btw. the giant shark is present here as well, indirectly ;)

Glancing at the poor ammonite boys from the animation project that's been put in the backburner (it's just too complicated to handle right now T~T there's too many of them and I got tired modelling everything)