Paleoart!

I did some research on the paintings from the megafauna article in Australia that was in this month's issue of Nat Geographic.  The information in the article was good but the real excitement about the piece is the duo of paleoartists they chose to do the renditions of the beasts.  Alfons and Adri Kennis are identical twins from the Netherlands who work together to create amazing reconstruction paintings and sculptures.  

Here's their bio from their website, I love it:

"At school all we were good at was drawing. We never read; we only looked at the pictures in the books. Human evolution was what interested us. We made clay models of drawings or we copied drawings of fossils and skulls. We still do. We're identical twins and always sat opposite each other to draw, which means you've always got your main competitor breathing down your neck. But the advantage is that you keep each other on your toes. No one spots any stylistic difference in our work, because the mix of our two styles forms one complex whole. But we only create animals and humans that really existed and they have to be scientifically accurate. "

These are the images from the article.  They totally blow me away....

Another thing I just thought about relating to Paleoart is that I'm happy there are artists who are able to make their living off of scientific art.  I guess it's todays version of Victorian Science art... maybe...