painting: three trilobites
December 2, 2010
Trilobites were prehistoric anthropods that existed in the waters during early the Cambrian age (525 million years ago) to the Permian age (250 million years ago). Mainly, bottom-feeders, their diet consisted of plankton.
My watercolor painting illustrates three trilobites passing each other in the shallow ocean floor. Naturally, the only evidence of their activity appears in fossil form, but I wanted to depict them as alive. After all, the trilobite species reigned on the Earth for hundreds of millions of years.
December 29, 2010 at 11:26 pm
Still look like crazy pre historic bugs to me
December 30, 2010 at 10:50 am
maybe so but… beauty is in the eye of the “bug holder”. thanks for visiting!