Gareth Monger Paleoart

08/11/2024

A couple of my cartoons appear in Darren Naish’s reaction to Brian J Ford’s 300-page silliness, Too Big To Walk.

In magazine articles, a BBC Radio 4 interview and the book Too Big To Walk, Brian Ford argued that the dinosaurs of the Mesozoic were not adapted for terrestrial life, but were aquatic. Bemusement ...

29/03/2024

The what:

Working on a new illustration! With a painted wingspan of approx 24in, it's a little larger than my usual work. Pteranodon has a high aspect ratio, so one of my typical A3 pics would mean that the head and body would be tiny. I was fortunate enough to have been given a sheet of large line and wash board, so I'm going big!

The why:

The wonderful Wisbech & Fenland Museum, situated in my birthtown, had its £50k grant slashed by Fenland District Council. Wisbech Town Council is reducing their £20k grant by £2.5k annually over the next eight years to zero. My aim is to pruduce a series of palaeo-themed paintings to auction to help reduce their funding shortfall.

06/05/2022

Natural History Museum's Sophie, showing off Stegosaurus's looong neck.

Natural History Museum, London

13/03/2022

Sections of the were released in the newspaper in July 1993, which my grandmother saved for me.
Whilst the cover's looks like you'd expect, the rest of its appearances show it with its 'killing claws' on the third toe of each foot instead of the second. I presume this stems from the illustrator relying on the script, specifically where says, "like a razor on the middle toe".

10/10/2021

Quick, mostly-referenceless ink sketch of a British spinosaurid, using quick glances at the recent paper from Barker, Hone, Naish and others.

27/07/2021

Wonderful at in .

25/07/2021

I'm on Beware! The Radio tonight style 2230 BST talking about historic pandemics with Dr Alan Crosby. Listen online at bewaretheradio.com.

24/07/2021

Popped into to photograph the miniature sculptures – and boy! – are they having some work done! Couldn't get near the CP sculptures, but there's plenty still going on – check their SM accounts/website for details if events.
Photographed some , which I'll post later.

28/06/2021

and in the flooring at , . Lots of sponges, which didn't photograph quite so well.

25/11/2020

A selection of illustrations commissioned by Fylde Borough Council, for the project 'Hidden Nature'. The animals represented here are common finds on UK beaches.

(Let me know if I've misidentified anything!)

07/04/2020

Snowcone and Barnett find about their business.

05/04/2020

Frog tadpoles, which were rescued as spawn from a terrible ornamental pond in in . I've given up pestering to make the pond safe for animals.

01/01/2020

Last autumn, and I set about publishing the fourth edition of 's , originally released in 1913. Ours was the first time it had been published in its entirety since its first edition, and we even managed to dig up a few unpublished illustrations and poems. In addition, the author's grandson penned a lovely foreword to complement the new biography. In return, we snuck an Easter egg into the book's title typeface: the bird hidden in the G is a motif found throughout James Campbell's pottery designs.

27/11/2019

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20/11/2019

( on cartridge paper).

17/11/2019

Progress on my . on cartridge paper.

12/11/2019

Dead . (Gouache on paper.)

10/11/2019

It's a little hard to make out, but this is the line work for an of I'll be painting.