Anchorage artist closes chapter on dinosaur paintings with ‘Return of the King’

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – James Havens has been the Alaska dinosaur artist for the previous 10 years, creating artistic endeavors that illustrate the prehistoric creatures that roamed the earth earlier than people. Now, he has determined it’s time for a change. Havens has completed his newest — and final — in a sequence of Alaska dinosaur work titled “Return of the King.”

It’s set within the Denali space. The summit of the mountain rises within the background beneath a peek of clear blue sky. A golden eagle sits within the foreground on high of a fossilized dinosaur cranium — not not like that of Tyrannosaurus rex — entombed within the face of a rock formation gilded with yellow lichen. Beneath the eagle the land types a valley bottomed by two converging streams, and on their jap edge a crop of evergreen bushes stretch in direction of the sky.

Havens’ dinosaur work have been featured in quite a few publications and museums. The Alaska Museum of Science and Nature in Anchorage has a number of of those life-size artworks on show.

Havens doesn’t simply paint what he imagines the dinosaurs regarded like — they’re correct portrayals based mostly on scientific data. He labored carefully with specialists to depict the creatures as shut as present data would enable. All the pieces else within the art work is right to the geologic interval, too.

Havens hasn’t dominated out portray extra dinosaurs sooner or later, however for now he’s going to focus on new material.

The most recent data on his work and his future plans may be discovered at havensstudio.on-line.

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