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  I first mocked up Dinotopia as a “Grand Tour of a Lost World,” structured like a travel guide. I was inspired by the lavishly illustrated ...

I was obsessed with flying machines in my younger years.  Before I graduated high school I had built and flown: radio-controlled gliders, ho...

Poets and philosophers have imagined childhood as an awakening from the sleep before life, or the sleep between lives. Companions, was aucti...

  Before electricity, nighttime seemed a lot brighter. That’s because electric lights constrict our pupils, making the darkness darker. Read...

  At the  November 4 Illustration Art Auction  at Heritage Auctions , four of my paintings will be offered for sale. The Tartarus Incident p...

The partnership with mammoths began modestly, with villagers gathering the tufts of wool that the gentle giants shed in spring.  Later, whe...

Marty Owings: "If you read the book it will unlock many secrets to being a better sketcher."  Marty Owings on YouTube  Direct lin...

Svetlana at fortune-telling by K.Bryullov, 1836 Mirrors have a powerful effect on people who have only seen their reflection in stll water....

  Jeanette and me, age 24 The part of my recent YouTube video that attracted the most interest was my answer to Andrew’s question about wha...