@bobnichollsart.bsky.social
Full-time palaeo-reconstruction artist. Our new book, THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, is out now! Buy here: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-secret-lives-of-dinosaurs/9780231211307/
THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, written by @deanrlomax.bsky.social and illustrated by @bobnichollsart.bsky.social, is OUT NOW!
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Pterosaurs #Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology
Two impressive beasts!
20.11.2025 19:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks Duncan. 😁
19.11.2025 18:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you sir! It was great to meet you again, you are an inspiration and THE SVP PART KING!
19.11.2025 15:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last Saturday night was a good night. I received the Lanzendorf - National Geographic PaleoArt Prize for Scientific Illustration at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Thank you @drverakorasidis.bsky.social
#SciArt #PaleoArt #SVP2025 #Dinosaurs #JurassicWorld
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
17.11.2025 15:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In this episode of the I Know Dino podcast, Dean Lomax and Bob Nicholls talk about THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS.
12.10.2025 21:57 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, written by @deanrlomax.bsky.social and illustrated by @bobnichollsart.bsky.social, is OUT NOW!
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Pterosaurs #Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology
Scenes from the #SVP2025 #2025SVP #paleoart workshop. We had terrific talks from @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social, @tetzoo.bsky.social, @palaeojules.bsky.social and @bobnichollsart.bsky.social, as well as fantastic discussion from attendees. Thanks to everyone who contributed, I hope you all enjoyed it!
12.11.2025 07:37 — 👍 93 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 0
Thank you @profaliceroberts.bsky.social!
“The SECRET LIVES of DINOSAURS”, written by @deanrlomax.bsky.social & illustrated by @bobnichollsart.bsky.social is OUT NOW.
#SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Fossils #Trex #Tyrannosaurus #TyrannosaurusRex #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
We're really excited that author @deanrlomax.bsky.social & illustrator @bobnichollsart.bsky.social will be joining us at the Festival of Geology on Saturday to tell us about their latest book: The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs +Q&A & book signing
More info: geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/#di...
Just an online portfolio; show my work, tell people who I am and what I do, contact info for licensing and commissions (no plan to sell work or prints through it).
21.10.2025 21:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
From the vault: my double life-size #Morganucodon model (2017), for the University of Bristol #Palaeobiology Research Group & National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. There was a lot of fun debate about what size & shape the ear pinna should be!
#SciArt #PaleoArt #Paleontology #JurassicWorld #Triassic
Thank you!
18.10.2025 21:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I drew the wings, printed them on clear plastic, then scored round all the hundreds of cells, flipping the wings over to get the score in the right direction. I took hundreds of hours, but the method works well.
18.10.2025 16:54 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Quite a loud buzz/flutter I imagine.
18.10.2025 16:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Cheers, thank you.
18.10.2025 15:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0From the vault: my life-size Meganeuropsis model, a giant griffinfly (Meganeuridae) from the Early Permian Wellington Formation of North America. The wingspan is 71cm.
#SciArt #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Paleontology #Palaeontology #JurassicWorld #Meganeuropsis #Meganeura #Griffinfly #DragonFly #Permian
50kg!
16.10.2025 23:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The colours seemed to match nicely too.
16.10.2025 23:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Unfortunately not, no. I only ever build models to order, and I'm only creating illustrations at the moment.
16.10.2025 23:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I like it!
16.10.2025 21:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think I remember reading, as much as 2.5m!
16.10.2025 21:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
From the vault: my Arthropleura (Carboniferous) model for Muse - Museo delle Scienze di Trento (2015). This is a smaller one, just 50cm long, but they grew to be over 2m long.
#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Paleontology #Palaeontology #JurassicWorld #Arthropleura #Carboniferous
It has become a bit of a tradition for me to miss social media portfolio days, so, as usual, here's my contribution one day late.
#SciArt #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Dinosaurs #Cambrian #Sauroposeidon #Psittacosaurus #Thecodontosaurus #Triassic #PortfolioDay
Wonderful, thank you for buying our new book!
14.10.2025 12:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A few more close zooms into my reconstruction of the "sea-rex," a Jurassic pliosaur. Here we see the smaller sea-rex and some Thrissops fish. This piece was commissioned by The Etches Collection.
#SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Pliosaur #Pliosaurus #SeaRex #Jurassic #JurassicWorld
Here is the complete image . . .
09.10.2025 17:43 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A closer zoom into my reconstruction of the "sea-rex," a Jurassic pliosaur. This piece was commissioned by The Etches Collection, which is where the spectacular skull is exhibited.
#SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Pliosaur #Pliosaurus #SeaRex #Jurassic #JurassicWorld
