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Hi dear dino-list members,
My artistic exhibition in Manhay (Ardennes, south
Belgium) is just finished. Most of artwork exposed was paleoart, and I added
some prints of skels and skulls, a time scale and sheets from the Dinosauricon.
It was the first one with that stuff, and it's been a very good experiment. My
dinosaurs were even included in a collective and a bit "psychedelic" painting
which will stay in the "communal House". We had much fun doing
this.
Many people liked my drawings for the artistic
work, some were interested by dinosaurs.
But the most interested were CHILDREN - and even
more because I've made some quick drawings of an hypsilophodontid head
reconstruction (what a kind dino!) I offered them (they were watching me
drawing: some were _fascinated_ by paleo-art).
I had sometimes to explain the difference between
the _real_Velociraptor_ and the JP "raptor".
I exposed a print of the cf._Sinornithosaurus_
feathered fossil and my reconstruction and talk to them about feathered
dinosaurs.
Some were very surprised when I told them that they
had dinosaurs in their gate (Passer,...), but I think most of 'em believed
me.
At the end of the exhibition, some kids kept the
additional prints: a _Carcharodontosaurus_ skul photo, the beautiful
cf._Sinornithosaurus_ photo, an _Hypsilophodon_ skel
reconstruction...
I suggest to paleoartists on the list to do the
same once a year or so, to prepare some prints of beatiful fossils and give them
a copy, and to prepare some little sheets of paper and to draw for them and in
front of 'em a kind dinosaur they have "in hand".
It really works.
Friendly - Luc J. "Aspidel"
BAILLY.
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