Friday, November 17, 2006

Have Nice Baby's in Dinotopia!!!!!

A friend of ours loaned us several of the Dinotopia books. The stories are good, but the fascinating details of the Dinotopia world are brought alive in the beautiful paintings of James Gurney. It is just what Raechel needed to add fresh life to her long-standing fascination with dinosaurs (and monsters).

This picture, executed in crayon and ball point pen, graced the inside of my birthday card on Sunday.

The caption reads, "Have nice baby's in Dinotopia!!!!!" It was inspired, no doubt, by one illustration in the first book that showed a "Nanny" dinosaur holding two little babies resting in side-saddles hanging from her back. As for the meaning of the cryptic message, I'm not sure. But it is interesting that she considers "have nice baby's" an appropriate birthday greeting for me.

God bless!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Those are pretty nice dinosaur drawings, I think you have a budding artist on your hands! The proportions are pretty accurate. FWIW, I hope you have nice babies in Dinotopia too!

Zach said...

The upper/under body shading on that Brachiasaurus is very nice. What a nice drawing!