Hello, and thank you for reading my blog. I have been going to the HMNS for my internship for quite a long time so this blog will catch you up on the past year and a quarter!
For the past school year and a quarter (every Wednsday), I have gone to the Houston Museum of Natural Science to create scientific illustrations of some of the archived dinosour fossils. The ones I have worked on so far were all an early amphibian called the Diplocaulus. It is a farily small creature compared to other dinosaurs. It's head is shaped like a boomerang with the pints extending slightly farther that the width of it's body. So far, I have completed two drawings of the animal. The first is of two laying across one another, for that is how they remained buried and that is how they looked when they were dug up and cleaned. The second is of a single Diplocaulus that is fully extended with no extreme bends in the vertebrae, except a small few in the tail. My current drawing is of another Diplocaulus. This one will definitely much harder that the previous two because the rock that this fossil is still stuck in is extremely elevated along the lower quarter of the Diplocaulus's body. Aside from the depth of the rock, I will have to find an angle in which I will capture each bone in the picture. To say this internship is simply fun would be an extreme understatement. I have been introduced to a new form of visual art that I would never have acknowledged until now.
P.S. I will upload images of the completed illustrations in a later post.
