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This dinosaur water colour exercise is becoming a project of it's own.
I admit I love how it's making me think of what colours I should use, for example, what colour was the sky in the Permian ( it was greenish) and how to use shading. What colours are the animals , what colour the plants and the dirt.
I could also just make it all up and not go with realism!!
I keep obsessing, thinking of going to the art shop and getting brushes and inks and paints but I can't walk well yet.
I get the impression that dinosaur colours (and sounds) are something we might never know. Could be dull rinho hide could be a full bird of paradise explosion. Just the feathers bit is pretty recent news.
I'm doing reading on dino colours and paleos have found melanosomes in some fossil skin and feathers and can tell what colours and what patterns in markings.
Archeopteryx is black like a raven!! Many dinos are brown or grey for camouflage.
In some eras the sky was greenish and the sea was luminescent yellow.
Bloody Ace! That hasn’t trickled down to the docos I’ve seen yet. Might do a paper dive one lunch soon.