sunrise over swamps

I have started a new blog, sunrise over swamps.

I hope you can visit soon!

What's Happening?

Hey hey

just a quick note to say hi. I've been blogging on the Amalgamation for seven months now. It's interesting to come back to my Blogger A Humble Art Folio. It is a friendly crowd at Blogger.

However, it has been fun trying out a new (if not often bad-tempered!) audience at Wordpress.

In just over 7 months at the Amalgamation I have had:
13,112 hits
including over 300o hits in September 2008. wow!

Hope you can visit sometime.

Some of my art is also up for sale as greeting cards a t-shirts at RedBubble.Com. Please drop by there sometime too!

Moving House...

Hi, everyone!

Just want to let you know, after much thought and rumination and all that, I have decided to move this blog. It'll now be amalgamated with my other blogs. It's becoming rather exhausting trying to keep up with maintaining the blogs, especially after recently battling a mystery illness.

I want to thank you all for your regular support, and I hope that you'll visit me at my new blog, "The Amalgamation" - you can probably guess where its name came from.

The Amalgamation
http://darthmaulmakesmesmile.wordpress.com/

A Humble Art Folio on The Amalgamation
http://darthmaulmakesmesmile.wordpress.com/category/art-folio/

To subscribe to my posts on The Amalgamation, here's the RSS feeds URL:
http://darthmaulmakesmesmile.wordpress.com/feed/

There may be a little overlap, especially to begin with, but I sure hope you'll drop by sometime!

195. Another Arabian-Inspired Horse

Armed with an Arabian Horse Society's magazine, a pack of watercolour pencils, and a brand new watercolour sketchpad, I embarked on drawing a number of Arabian Horse-inspired sketches. I needed to do something while I was sweating away the ridiculously hot New Year's that we had in this part of the nation. I mean, it was way too hot. We don't have air conditioning so we paid a lot of visits to the in-laws - what with their swimming pool, air conditioning and other luxuries - like curtains...

194. Acrocanthosaurus atokensis

Acrocanthosaurus was an Allosauroid dinosaur characterised by prominent spines along the back. This carnivore was discovered in North America and is considered to belong to either the Allosauridae or Carcharodontosauridae. The allosaurids include the genus Allosaurus; the carcharodontosaurids include Giganotosaurus.

Like all allosaurs, Acrocathosaurus is classed as a theropod carnosaur: a large, bipedal meat-eating dinosaur with a lizard-like hip structure. The only named species is A. atokensis. This dinosaur measured about 12 metres from head to tail-tip, and probably weighed about 2.4 tonnes (metric).

I drew this sketch using felt-tip markers, based on reconstructions of this amazing creature.

References:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrocanthosaurus
• http://www.naturalsciences.org/funstuff/faqs/acro.html
• http://www.wmnh.com/wmge0000.htm

Frequently asked questions about dinosaurs, from a Biblical perspective:

• http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/3061/ - Creation Ministries International FAQ - dinosaurs.
  
• http://www.christiananswers.net/dinosaurs/home.html - Christian Answers Network Dinosaur Mystery Pages
  
• http://www.icr.org/article/1065/ - Institute for Creation Research - How do dinosaurs fit with the Bible?
  

193. Agilisaurus louderbacki

Agilisaurus is an Asian genus of dinosaur. This sketch was drawn a few months ago based on a skeletal reconstruction.

Reference:
http://dino.lm.com/images/display.php?id=1800

192. Christmas From The Past

Based on my childhood memories of Christmas in rural Australia. I drew this a few years ago, but found it recently in my old sketchbook.

Poll - The Origin Of The Universe

Which of these do you feel best represents the origin of life, the Universe, and everything?

The Biblical account of Creation - 6 (42%)
The Atheistic account of life arising by upwards evolution - 2 (14%)
God used evolution - 2 (14%)
God took millions of years, and Genesis is just poetry - 2 (14%)
Big Bang theory - 0 (0%)
One of the Atheistic alternatives to Big Bang theory - 0 (0%)
The Creation narrative of my Indigenous culture - 0 (0%)
I don't know and I'm not sure I care - 0 (0%)
I don't know and I don't think anyone could ever know - 0 (0%)
I don't know but I'm open to learning more about the various theories - 0 (0%)
I don't know but I lean towards Atheism - 0 (0%)
I don't know but I lean towards theism - 0 (0%)
- 0 (0%)
Something not listed here - 2 (14%)

Votes so far: 14

Thanks to everyone who voted.

Whales!

As some of you may be aware, a hot topic in Australian news at the moment is the slaughter of our whales. If you are interested in more information, or want to know what you can do to help, the following webpages may be of assistance.

Articles From the Australian Government:Save Our Whales Index
http://www.environment.gov.au/coasts/species/cetaceans/intro.html

Educational Resources
http://www.environment.gov.au/coasts/species/cetaceans/teachers.html

Whale and Dolphin Conservation
http://www.environment.gov.au/coasts/species/cetaceans/index.html

Articles From Other Sources:
Ask Japan To Stop Hunting Whales - Australian Petition
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22836857-5014728,00.html

Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society Australia
http://www.wdcs.org.au/

Greenpeace - Australia Pacific
http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/resources/fun-and-games/games/whales

Marine Environmental Activism In Australia (Wilderness Society)
http://www.wilderness.org.au/campaigns/marine/

Commercial Whaling In Australia (Article 22 December 2007)
http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/news-and-events/news/whales/japan-commits-to-commercial-wh

Flight of the Humpback
http://www.flightofthehumpback.org/

191. Don't Walk

Where exactly do you go when all the lights are red?! Taken near midnight somewhere in Melbourne on New Years Eve. A good time to drive - there's no traffic on the road! And no green lights, from the looks of it!