John Conway's paleoart

[Reptilia]

John Conway's style is not what I'd properly define as naturalistic, there are dozens of other paleoartists which have a naturalistic style in the stricter sense of the term, but stands halfway between a naturalistic and a dreamy dimension. That's at least what I feel about his works. He's also regarded as one of the most imaginative and speculative modern paleoartists, and I am stunned by all of his colourful but yet realistic representations. I'd die to have a line of figures directly inspired by his paintings. For those who don't know him might worth check out his website and the book he made together with C.M. Kosemen and Darren Naish, which is called "All Yesterdays".

Here's some of my favourites from his portfolio:

















http://johnconway.co/

[Halichoeres]

Good stuff. I agree, he doesn't go for the photorealism of someone like Csotonyi, but the compositions are very imaginative.

[Silvanusaurus]

Easily my favourite palaeoartist. I need a book just full of his work.

[danmalcolm]

Wow his work is extremely interesting... Any ideas on where to pick up that book? A quick good search yielded poor results.

[suspsy]

Conway is probably the best paleoartist when it comes to making dinosaurs seem like real animals instead of boring old monsters.

[ceratopsian]

Wow his work is extremely interesting... Any ideas on where to pick up that book? A quick good search yielded poor results.

It's listed on both amazon.co.uk and amazon.com - multiple authors might confuse the issue?

[Neosodon]

Never herd of this guy before. I prefer more naturalistic art but he certainly has a good artistic sense. Depicts dinosaurs in a way that seems to give them a mood and makes me think of them differently. Kind of hard to describe.

[Brontozaurus]

Conway's quoted in Dinosaur Art as saying that his particular style is exactly because everyone goes for realism. Once you've achieved realism, then what?

[The Atroxious]

Not a huge fan of his application of lips on archosaurs, or the fact that he rips plumage for nonavian dinosaurs from extant species, but I personally like the fact that he goes for a more stylized approach. Prehistoric art seems to have a disproportionate number of artists striving for photorealism, which is all well and good, but I like to see a variety of styles to keep things fresh.

[Concavenator]

Conway is my favourite paleoartist as wel,his work really is  magical

[Patrx]

Sometime around 2009 or so, I stumbled across Conway's beautiful Deinonychus portrait and was struck by how different it was from the Deinonychus I remembered:



The painting is basically what inspired me to research dinosaurs again, to see how much depictions of my other favorite dinosaurs had changed, and ultimately, to start collecting dinosaur figures and fossils.

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

I really like his depiction of tyrannosaurus rex:

It reminds me of a grizzly or even a polar bear.

[Kayakasaurus]

I really like his depiction of tyrannosaurus rex:

It reminds me of a grizzly or even a polar bear.

Reminds me of a Gorilla. It really is great.