It is often thought that we know very little about any particular species of Dinosaur and that anything goes when it comes to creating reconstructive images. However, this is not so in a great many cases; often the whole skeleton is known and occasionally soft tissues are fossilised, and there are many examples of skin impressions. While we know that some species had various superficial adornments, including the now well documented feathered varieties, it is often taken too far. Likewise, we do not know the colour of many of the Dinosaurs or their contemporaries but by studying modern faunas we can guess that few, if any, were very garish, as just about all would find it necessary to hide from their predators or their prey. So the general rules in James’ paintings are; the known skeleton should fit inside the skin; adornments are kept in check; colours and patterns should fit the landscape and lifestyle and with just the occasional bit of flamboyance for artistic drama.
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AGUJACERATOPS
This scene is based on the fossils of the Aguja Formation in Texas, from the late Cretaceous. The herd of Agujaceratops (Aguja-horned-face) crossing the river, are members of the Triceratops family of horned Dinosaurs. Their crossing is made more perilous by the presence of the enormous Deinosuchus crocodiles. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas ORIGINAL PAINTING: £650.00 815x710mm (32x28ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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ANCHISAURUS
One of the later Prosauropods, Anchisaurus (close-reptile) is from the Early Jurassic and is seen here approaching a river in a ‘savannah’ of ferns and occasional conifers. A small flock of Rhamphorhynchus (beak-nose) fly past on their route up river. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas board ORIGINAL PAINTING: £250.00 460x355mm (18x14ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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BENNETTITALE
AND COMPSOGNATHUS Two possible prey animals seek sanctuary from the tiny meat-eating Dinosaur Compsognathus (pretty-jaw), on a Bennettitale. About the size of a big chicken, Compsognathus was still a voracious hunter of small prey such as early mammals and lizards. The Bennettitales were related to the Cycads but became extinct towards the end of the Cretaceous. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas ORIGINAL PAINTING: £260.00 300x1000mm (12x39.5ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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CARNOTAURUS
A most unusual South American Theropod from the Late Cretaceous, Carnotaurus (flesh-bull) has a very deep short skull with pronounced horns over each eye. Its arms were also remarkably short and stubby with four-fingered hands. Skin impressions show that Carnotaurus was covered with bony nodules surrounded by rough skin with large folds around the neck. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas board ORIGINAL PAINTING: £260.00 SOLD 460x610mm (18x24ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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COELOPHYSIS
In the Late Triassic of what is now New Mexico the sun shines through the canopy of Ginkgos and conifers onto the fern covered forest floor. A stream cuts its way through the moss covered rock while the Coelophysis (hollow-form) hunt for food. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas board ORIGINAL PAINTING: £500.00 610x405mm (24x16ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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DASPLETOSAURUS
AND PTERANODON Imagine you are a tiny mammal in Alberta, Canada during the Late Cretaceous. The ground trembles and then a shadow passes over you. You look up. Not one huge predator but two; the earth shaker is Daspletosaurus (frightful-lizard) a smaller and earlier relative of Tyrannosaurus (tyrant lizard), in the sky Pteranodon (wing-without-teeth) glides by on wings that could grow up to 9 meters (30 feet) across. Pteranodon was one of the last and largest of all the pterosaurs. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas board ORIGINAL PAINTING: £2500.00 3353x1676mm (132x66ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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DEINONYCHUS
Small by Dinosaur standards, 3.5feet (1m) high and 10feet (3m) long Deinonychus (terrible-claw) was none the less a most impressive Late Cretaceous, North American predator. Armed with long grasping, clawed fingers and a 5-inch (13cm) long sickle-claw on each foot it was quite capable of taking on much larger prey, especially as fossil evidence suggests that it hunted in packs. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas ORIGINAL PAINTING: £1800.00 1830x915mm (72x36ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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DICRAEOSAURUS
This medium sized Sauropod from the Late Jurassic of East Africa is noted for the very deep neural spines of the vertebrae giving a somewhat humped appearance. Here we see a herd wandering through open conifer woodland with an understory of cycads and a few strap-like ferns. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas board ORIGINAL PAINTING: £650.00 760x610mm (30x24ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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DIPLODOCUS BEACH
Although there is a great deal of evidence in fossil track-ways that sauropods travelled in herds but here we see a solitary Diplodocus (double-beam) ambling along a beach in the early morning some time in the Late Jurassic of what will become North America. As the sun warms the air the sea mist is burning off to reveal the great coniferous forests beyond. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas board ORIGINAL PAINTING: £250.00 SOLD 610x305mm (24x12ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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DIPLODOCUS SHADOWS
A herd of Diplodocus travel through a clearing in the forest, the ground is clear of vegetation possibly caused by many generations of sauropod feet. The Late Jurassic of North America must have been a very green and luxuriant land as there were several species of sauropod sharing this habitat along with other smaller herbivores. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas board ORIGINAL PAINTING: £650.00 760x610mm (30x24ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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EDMONTOSAURUS HEAD
This portrait of Edmontosaurus (Edmonton-reptile) shows the horny beak that would have been used to collect the vegetation on which it lived; what can’t be seen are the hundreds of teeth set further back inside the mouth where the food was ground down. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas board ORIGINAL PAINTING: £250.00 460x355mm (18x14ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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EDMONTOSAURUS LIGHTNING
A Late Cretaceous thunderstorm panics a herd of Edmontosaurus (Edmonton-reptile). This is one of the Dinosaurs for which we have mummified specimens showing that, at least this species of Hadrosaur had a frill along its back. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas board ORIGINAL PAINTING: £650.00 660x460mm (26x18ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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HYPSILOPHODON
A group of small but swift Hypsilophodon (high-ridge-tooth) cross a shallow river in what will become Western Europe. These Early Cretaceous herbivores may well have lived in herds as over twenty separate individuals have been found at the same cliff site on the Isle of Wight, England. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas board ORIGINAL PAINTING: £650.00 660x460mm (26x18ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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JURASSIC MIST
At the edge of a clearing in the late Jurassic of North America a small herd of Camptosaurus (flexible-reptile) warily pass through the under story of ferns, cycads and bennettitales. On the far side of the clearing, in the early morning mist, two Brachiosaurus (arm-reptile) feed on the towering conifer forest. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas board ORIGINAL PAINTING: £650.00 SOLD 660x460mm (26x18ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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KENTROSAURUS
Closely related to the more famous Stegosaurus (roof-lizard), Kentrosaurus (spiky-lizard) is from the late Jurassic of Tanzania. Apart from being smaller Kentrosaurus also differed from Stegosaurus by having rear spikes instead of plates, with a spike projecting from each shoulder. This solitary specimen is seen taking a drink from a forest river. Trees are mainly the Monkey-puzzle family (Araucariaceae) with a large Ginkgo to the right. The understory is made up of tree ferns, Bennettitales and cycads and a floor cover of ferns with horsetails at the edges of the water. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas ORIGINAL PAINTING: £700.00 1220x760mm (48x30ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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LIOPLEURODON CRUISE
Sunlight, filtered through the waves of the blue Jurassic ocean, light up a gently cruising Liopleurodon (smooth-side-teeth) with its attending scavenger fish. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas board ORIGINAL PAINTING: £350.00 610x405mm (24x16ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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LIOPLEURODON AND PREY
Having eaten its fill of an Ichthyosaur, Liopleurodon (smooth-side-teeth) returns to the murky deep. Recent studies have suggested that the four flipper Plesiosaurs would have had a surprisingly fast acceleration and may well have been ambush hunters. Much like modern Great White Sharks they may well have lurked in the depths and with a sudden rush attacked their prey from below. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas ORIGINAL PAINTING: £350.00 405x605mm (16x24ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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LIOPLEURODON TEETH
Just as the Pterosaurs are not ‘flying Dinosaurs’, Plesiosaurs and the other marine reptiles are not ‘swimming Dinosaurs’. One of the short-necked Plesiosaurs, or Pliosaurs, Liopleurodon had a skull length of some 5 feet (1.5m) and an overall length in excess of 33 feet (10m). With those huge jaws and long teeth Liopleurodon would have been one of the top predators in the Late Jurassic oceans that covered much of Europe at that time. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas board ORIGINAL PAINTING: £500.00 460x610mm (18x24ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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PALAEOSANIWA AND ORNITHOMIMUS
The Hell Creek Formation in western N. America contains some of the most famous of all Dinosaur Fossils, such as Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops, but many other types of animal lived there as well as other species of Dinosaurs. Here we see a small herd of Ornithomimus (bird-mimic) surprised by a large lizard, Palaeosaniwa, (ancient-saniwa) leaping up from its lair. The flora was made up of sparse large trees similar to Elms, Beech, Sycamore and Chestnut, smaller trees related to Magnolia, Witch Hazel and fruit trees, shrubs similar to Buckthorn and plants of the ginger and nettle families. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas ORIGINAL PAINTING: £600.00 760x610mm (30x24ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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PTERANODON STERNBERGI
Below Late Cretaceous skies a pair of Pteranodon (wing-toothless) flies gracefully overhead. The fossilised bones were discovered in Kansas which at the time was covered by sea. Pteranodon’s crest may have been used as a counter-balance to the long beak. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas board ORIGINAL PAINTING: £425.00 610x405mm (24x16ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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PTERODACTYLUS
On a gloriously sunny day flocks of Pterodactylus (wing-finger) fly past on their daily hunt for food over the seas that cover central Europe during the Late Jurassic. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas board ORIGINAL PAINTING: £250.00 610x460mm (24x18ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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STYRACOSAURUS
An imposing member of the horned Dinosaur family Styracosaurus (spiked-lizard) is identified by the large spikes erupting from the edges of its frill. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas ORIGINAL PAINTING: £650.00 710x910mm (28x36ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES
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TRICERATOPS
One of the best known of all Dinosaurs, Triceratops (three-horned-face) is seen here as a small group in an open area within the North American woods. Triceratops was a very common Dinosaur in the last few million years of the Late Cretaceous of North America. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas board ORIGINAL PAINTING: £500.00 610x510mm (24x20ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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TROODON RIVER
A boulder strewn stream flows through broadleaf woodland of the Late Cretaceous, North America. Amongst the rocks a pair of Troodon (wounding-tooth) searches for anything of interest that might be food. Small, nimble and fleet-footed Troodon was also one of the most intelligent of all Dinosaurs. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas board ORIGINAL PAINTING: £450.00 460x560mm (18x22ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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TYRANNOSAURUS REDWOOD
Two giants of the late Cretaceous period of North America, the majestic Redwood (sequoiadendron giganteum), here providing a hiding place for Tyrannosaurus Rex (tyrant-lizard), adopting a watchful pose in forest-filtered sunlight. MEDIUM: Oil on canvas SOLD GICLEE PRINTS: Not available |
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TYRANNOSAURUS REX AND REGINA
A Tyrannosaurus (tyrant-lizard) pair meet on the banks of a late Cretaceous river in what is now western North America. There are indications that their meetings may not have been very cordial as some fossil evidence shows injuries that may have been caused by another member of the same species. We can imagine that, much like many modern predators, courtship could be traumatic. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas ORIGINAL PAINTING: £600.00 SOLD 1020x410mm (40x16ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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TYRANNOSAURUS STALKING
A mixture of broadleaf and conifer woodland provides cover for a Tyrannosaurus (tyrant-lizard) whilst in the open a group of Edmontosaurus (Edmonton-reptile) drink at the bend of a river, unaware of the danger. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas board ORIGINAL PAINTING: £650.00 760x510mm (30x20ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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USING THE UPDRAFT:
PTERANODON STERNBERGI Two Pteranodon sternbergi soar in the updraught of sea cliffs in the late Cretaceous of North America. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas ORIGINAL PAINTING: £400.00 360x280mm (92.00x71.00ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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WATCHERS IN THE WOODS:
MAIASAURA, TROODON, AND ORODROMEUS A migrating herd of Maiasaura (good mother- reptile) raise a cloud of dust. Two Orodromeus (mountain-runner) think they are safe under the protection of their bigger cousins, but are keenly watched by three Troodon (wounding-tooth) from the shadows of the Late Cretaceous woods of North America. MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas board ORIGINAL PAINTING: £650.00 SOLD 760x610mm (30x24ins) GICLEE PRINTS are available in various sizes. Please contact James to discuss options and payment methods. Click on the CONTACT JAMES link above for contact details.
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