Bill Scheele Images

[Danvarner@aol.com]

       For you youngsters out there who do not know the art of the late, 
great Bill Scheele, there are two of his books from about 50 years ago at eBay. 
A 
number of his very interesting drawings are shown. I do not know whether or 
not he invented this style, but note the technique of superimposing the 
skeletal 
reconstruction in the silhouette of the fleshed-out animal that's become 
standard operating proceedure today. I vividly remember the Christmas morning 
(1957, I think) when I got Scheele's _Prehistoric Animals_, RCA's _All About 
Strange Beasts of the Past_ and a box of Abbeon porcelain dinosaurs with a red 
and 
white sticker attacted saying "Warning! Dinosaurs! Handle with Care! I got so 
excited I threw up. I get very nostalgic this time of year...DV
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