🐍SpinoJP 𓂀 ᴾᵃˡᵃᵉᵒᵖʰⁱˢ ᵉʳᵃ𓆓

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PhD student (?!) in 🇧🇷 working on fossil snakes🐍-?paleoartist?-Palaeophiidae, Treeferns and ✨Art Déco✨ obsessed - He/Him🇫🇷 IG: http://instagram.com/spino_jp

Wowsers! Thank you for all the new follows 😃 I really appreciate each and everyone of you. I'm hoping 2025 will offer me more time to post personal art. I've also been busy taking the Vancouver Master Gardeners course, which is through the Van Dusen Botanical Garden. It's been a nice distraction 💚🌿

In the foreground are the green glossy leaves of an evergreen Magnolia with a pink seed head in the middle. In the background there is the head of  Quetzalcoatlus pterosaur in the shadows with a golden highlight.
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Remarkably,this little mammoth carved from mammoth ivory about 40,000 years ago was recovered from the excavation spoil at Vogelherd Cave, some 70 years after the original excavations (Tübingen Museum)

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I had the immense pleasure of creating the cover art for Alcest's 7th album, "Les Chants de l'Aurore". Neige asked me to reinterpret Sydney Long's beautiful painting "The Spirit of the Plains". "Les Chants de l'Aurore" - Oil and gold leaf on paper Model: Psyché Ophiuchus

"Les Chants de l'Aurore" - Oil and gold leaf on paper
Model: Psyché Ophiuchus

The painting depicts a figure playing the flute in a vast plain landscape. Behind them, a rising sun forms an aureole, illuminating the scene. They are surrounded by large wading birds, seemingly accompanying the melody. The warm tones evoke the lingering atmosphere of long summer nights.

Indricothere time! It was an honor to provide my contribution to the special volume celebrating the scientific legacy of the late great Björn Kurten. Thank you to Indrė Žliobaitė and Andrej Spiridonov for their invitation to contribute to their wonderful curiosity driven study :)

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