Posts Tagged dinosaurs
Sometimes the things that arrive in the sketchbook are best not explained.
Another tale almost-from-life, and another experiment with watercolouring. I think the grain on this particular paper is too heavy for this kind of thing.
2. Knee: Hey itchy! Will you be long in the bath?
3. Itchy: I'll have you know, Knee, I'm REPAIRING the enamel [holds out a tube of Enamel Fix]
4. Knee [examining the tube]: Itchy! This is toothpaste!
Yesterday I took the day off work and we went into London to visit the Natural History Museum. Darwin says “Hi!”
Shock horror — invisibules.org in flagrant romantic romp pun outrage. Pelisse are investigating.
2. Cathy!
3. Heathcliff!
4. [smooch]
5. Do you think we were observed?
6. I fear that Brontesaurus.
Yesterday we went to the Oxford University Museum, to see the T. Rex and its friends. The new coffee shop has T. Rex biscuits, but if that’s too scary for you they also come in Stegasaurus shapes.
Tyrannosaurus is also famous for being poor at tennis.
12 metres long, with the Strongest Bite of any animal.
More scary than any biscuit.
Really this cartoon was just an excuse to draw a dinosaur. Something like a triceratops, perhaps. It’s almost as much fun to draw a dinosaur as it is to draw a giraffe!
I’ve been reading the superb “Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum” by Richard Fortey. Anyone interested in life on our planet should find this book amusing and astonishing.