Walters & Kissinger Summer / Fall 1999 Here's what we've been up to this summer and what we're into this fall.
ROBERT F. WALTERS is enjoying the summer and fall while working on a number of museum projects. He has begun the painting depicting the animals and environment of Jurassic China for the new Dinosaur Hall at the Delaware Natural History Museum. The book, The Complete Dinosaur for which Bob did the cover and was the Art Editor continues to enjoy enormous success and rave reviews. If you havent seen it you should pick it up. It is available from Indiana University Press. He has completed the graphic mural and dinosaur identification art for the new Dinosaur Hall at the Academy of Natural Sciences. This month he is preparing artwork for the exhibit for the Rotunda of the National Museum of Natural History on Elephants and Elephant Ancestors. Look for his paper on doing scientifically accurate murals for Natural History Museums in the Dinofest Symposium volume published by the Academy of Natural Sciences, (oh, and by the way - thats his work on the books cover too!) Bob has just signed a contract with Running Press to illustrate and co-author a book on dinosaurs as yet untitled but scheduled to be completed in 2000. And, you might be amused to see his work on the cover of the July issue of Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine, where he has posed the author Michael Swanwick, his wife and friends about to be unknowingly attacked by an extremely villainous T. rex.
TESS KISSINGER has the first half of her book, Copyrights, Contracts, Pricing & Ethical Guidelines for Dinosaur Artists and Paleontologists put up on this website for artists to download for their own information and use. We thank everyone who has made inquiries about the book and hope you all will make good use of it. We will post the remainder as we can. She and Bob are working in an area other than dinosaurs where art meets science. They will be guest curators of a show of historically significant space art opening at the Bruce Museum in Connecticut in January 2001. Tess and Bob are the Executive Art Directors for DINOFEST®. Tess is in charge of graphic design for the new Dinosaur Hall at the Delaware Museum of Natural History and is working on her book, The Dinosaur Renaissance scheduled to be completed next Spring.
PAUL SORTON completed work on some of the toy model apes for Mattel, which were released in conjunction with the Tarzan movie from Disney as well as sculpting five of the popular POKEMON toys. You can find them in stores now. He has also completed work on sculptures of Carnotaurus, Iguanodon/B>, and Chasmosaurus, which we look forward to getting back from the mold-maker. Paul is about to get his pilots license and has become engaged to be married so we all have a lot to congratulate him for.
BRUCE J. MOHN continues to receive praise from scientists around the world for his precise and accurate sculpture of the life-sized skeleton of Compsognathus. The cast of this superlative sculpture has been commissioned by the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Canada, the Museum dHistoire Naturelle in Paris, The Cranbrook Institute of Science, a natural history museum in Thailand, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and the Lost World museum exhibit. Bruce has just completed the companion pieces to this skeletal reconstruction - a trio of perfect and accurate Archaeopteryx lithographica skeletal sculptures posed in various stages of flight to vividly illustrate the dinosaur-bird connection when accompanied by his Compsognathus. Bruce is getting great reviews for his illustrations for the book, Poisonous,Venomous, and Electric Marine Organisms of the Atlantic Coast, Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean by Matthew Landau, Ph.D., and available from Plexus Publishing, Inc.. He is hard at work this summer and fall on life restoration sculptures of Yangchuanosaurus and Tuojiangosaurus, as well as fabrication of the animals limb bones for the Delaware Museum of Natural History.

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