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Friday, 6 April 2007

Mythical Flying Trilobite Fossil

This image was created for my friend Rudi's birthday this year. It is oil painted onto a slab of shale. My wife found the shale discarded from a roof in the Annex area here in Toronto.
The trilobite is modelled after Balcoracania, and once again I used the extra large pleura halfway down the body to create wings. This time, I have modelled them after bat wings instead of insect. The neat thing about this piece of shale is that it already had a natural hole descending through the slab, making it perfect for wall-hanging.
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2 comments:

  1. Jesse Graham16 April 2007 at 02:48:00 GMT-4

    wow Glendon! That's a pretty cool surface to work on.

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  2. Glendon Mellow16 April 2007 at 20:27:00 GMT-4

    Thanks, Jesse. Of course, if you drop it, it can shatter. It was fun to work on, especially with the subject matter.

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Posts over 14 days old have their comments held in moderation - I've been getting an unusual amount of spam for a guy who paints trilobites. I'll release it lickety-split though.