Re: Illustrating Dino Skin

[Danvarner@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/19/01 8:21:20 PM Pacific Daylight Time, vita0015@umn.edu writes:


<< Also, I think we are getting into stylistic waters.  Some like detail, some
don't. >>

       No, I was mainly trying (unsuccessfully?) to state that detail does not necessarily equal "realism", not making value judgements. This is not to disparage the use of detail. As you say, we have different "styles". In fact, to hear from the other side of the coin, Larry Felder is interviewing this month at Ed's Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette (http://www.dinosaur.org/). It's probably the most thoughtful discussion that's appeared there, check it out. Larry is heavily into detail and his paintings have a renaissance-like charm to them as a result. In one of his statements, Larry says that in one of the paintings he did for _In the Presence of Dinosaurs_he painted somewhere near 65,000 scales on a dinosaur! Now that's dedication! DV

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