Comments on: Lemons and Other Things

By: Bob Schmitz

Bob Schmitz — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:55:10 +0000

Sir, I love your artwork! I do have a request/ suggestion: 5 1/2 Million years ago, at the end of the Miocene, the Mediterranean dried up (Messinian event). Initially it was thought it would have been one huge hellish desert.
But it seems there was plenty of moisture provided from rivers, at least locally. Because of the ‘lapse rate’, the increase/ decrease of temperature of 6 deg C (13 deg F) per Km, the basin, which was up to 5 Km deep, would have been ‘unearthly’ hot. But life would probably have taken a foothold, migrating from the rivers. it had several 100s of thousand years to adapt!! We will probably never get any fossils, as it is buried under miles of sea and sediment. The atmospheric pressure must have been almost 2x sea level. In the deep, probably only extremophiles would have been able to live, but higher up, there must have been ‘ultratropical’ forest and fauna.
But it does arouse fantasy what could have roamed these landscapes!!!! (speculative drawings???)
(I am currently doing an essay (literature study) for my master ‘ landscape ecology’ at univ. of Amsterdam, about landscapes and climates of the late Neogene, to compare with possible future developments)

By: Velou

Velou — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 06:53:12 +0000

cette image est vraiment belle

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By: OGeorge

OGeorge — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:48:41 +0000

Thanks everybody.

KeithB: All the painting can be is Beetlerockish. I visited the place 25 years ago, but none of the rock forms or trees is taken directly from any of the photos I took. You have to have reference to get close, but that’s all it is, close. Half the fun of working digitally is seeing how close you can get to textures and forms through your own eyes and hand. Oh, does it help when the paleo-environment your trying to paint no longer exists.

By: KeithB

KeithB — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:14:11 +0000

Oh, and I love the silhouette of the weasel. I didn’t see it for a long time!

By: KeithB

KeithB — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:50:44 +0000

Welcome back!
Did you actually visit Beetle Rock and do sketches, or did this all come from your head?