Here's the latest from the Csotonyi studio, updated 30 September 2008. To return home, click here.
Opening Friday, Sept 26, 2008 at the Houston Museum of Natural Science: "Dinosaur Mummy CSI: Cretaceous Science Investigation",
featuring all-new Csotonyi artwork, including one of the largest palaeontological murals ever created, a 64-foot-long mural of Cretaceous Montana.
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Julius has illustrated a series of interpretive signs for the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, to be placed throughout the province of Alberta. Watch for nine new digital ink illustrations featuring dinosaurs and extinct mammals and reptiles. Here are a couple of the drawings:
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Julius has completed the illustrations for the newly opened Ceratopsian exhibit at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology. This new exhibit opened 18 May 2007 and was the first major renovation of Dinosaur Hall since its opening in 1985. (Scroll down for more information.)
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| An initial restoration sketch of a fleshed-out Centrosaurus apertus, for the Ceratopsian exhibit at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology. |
A restoration of the head of Centrosaurus brinkmani, for the Ceratopsian exhibit at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology. |
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| An initial restoration sketch of competing ideas about the postures of ceratopsians, for the Ceratopsian exhibit at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology. |
A restoration of Psittacosaurus for the Ceratopsian exhibit at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology. |
More featured pieces of Julius' digital artwork follow. Most of Julius' recent works are completed digitally rather than traditionally using paint or pencils.
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| Archaeotherium mortoni and Poebrotherium. |
Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis and a small marsupial mammal. |
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| Eocarcharia dinops. |
Allosaurus fragilis and Stegosaurus armatus. |
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| Brachylophosaurus canadensis and Daspletosaurus torosus. |
Acrocanthosaurus atokensis and Sauroposeidon proteles. |
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| Sinosauropteryx prima. |
Mei long. |
Julius was commissioned by the Houston Museum of Natural Science (Houston, Texas, USA) to create several large murals (including one of the largest palaeontological murals in the world, a 64-foot-long wrap-around mural of Montana during the late Cretaceous) for a new exhibit called "Dinosaur Mummy CSI: Cretaceous Science Investigation". This exhibit centers on "Leonardo", an extraordinarily well-preserved mummified Brachylophosaurus canadensis that is a Guinness World Record Holder as the world's best preserved dinosaur, with nearly 90% of its skin impressions intact. The special exhibit shows at the HMNS from September 26, 2008 to January 11, 2009, and then tours North America.
Julius was commissioned by the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology (Drumheller, Alberta, Canada) to create nine illustrations for new interpretive signs that will be placed throughout the province of Alberta to highlight paleontologiclly significant sites. Watch for nine new digital ink illustrations featuring dinosaurs and extinct mammals and reptiles.
Julius was commissioned by the National Geographic Society to illustrate the cover of the book entitled Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs and to contribute to creation of dinosaur computer models for the documentary, "Dino Autopsy", which aired Sunday, Dec 9, 2007.
The piece entitled Acrocanthosaurus atokensis recently won "best in show" in an illustration contest sponsored by the Museum of the Red River in Idabel, Oklahoma, to popularize the recent declaration of Acrocanthosaurus as the state dinosaur of Oklahoma.
Julius was commissioned by the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology (Drumheller, Alberta, Canada) to illustrate their new Ceratopsian exhibit. This redevelopment of a corner of Dinosaur Hall opened in May 2007 and features 27 new Csotonyi illustrations.
Julius' work is featured in a gallery on the educational resource website called LiveScience.
In May 2006, Julius completed a project advised by Dr. Matthew T. Carrano (Curator of Dinosauria, Smithsonian Institution), for Scholastic Inc. (New York, USA) on a series of ten children's books on dinosaurs and other prehistoric life, called the 3-D Dinosaur Discovery Series.
In April 2006, Julius wrapped up a contract with the Canadian Museum of Nature (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) to update their educational online resource called the Natural History Notebooks. Watch for the new images to appear on the CMN's website (www.nature.ca/notebooks) in the next few months.
A project was completed in February 2006 with the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (Raleigh, NC, USA). NCMNS has a wonderfully preserved Acrocanthosaurus skeleton, which is on display in their "Terror of the South" exhibit. Regretably, however, it seems that most visitors confuse the beast with the more familiar Tyrannosaurus. The project involved highlighting the differences between the two animals using illustrations of Acrocanthosaurus and Tyrannosaurus in similar poses. When the display is finished, it will stand next to the Acrocanthosaurus skeleton.
Julius' work has appeared, and will soon appear, in the following books
by authors such as the well known and highly respected dinosaur book writer
Dougal Dixon:
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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs (ISBN 0754815730). This book is already in print. It may now be ordered through amazon.com, amazon.ca, amazon.co.uk or chapters.indigo.ca. |
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The World Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Creatures (ISBN 0754816303). As of June 2006, this book is still in production, but watch for it (and it may also be preordered through amazon.co.uk). |
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Julius also paints extant wildlife, and some of his work, featuring whales, will appear in The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals of America (ISBN 0754816176), by Tom Jackson and Michael Chinery. This book is already in print. The book may now be ordered from chapters.indigo.ca, amazon.com, amazon.ca or amazon.co.uk. |
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A fourth book project with Anness Publishing features living sharks (for The World Encyclopedia of Marine Fish and Sea Creatures). This book is already in print. |
The artist's work repeatedly appears in the periodical Prehistoric Times,
edited by Mike Fredericks.
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Read the article "Paleoartists Speak", in which Julius and 11 other top paleoartists comment on trends in paleo illustration and provide advice to newcomers to the field, in the summer 2006 issue of Prehistoric Times magazine. |
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Julius was interviewed for issue #76, (Feb/March 2006) of Prehistoric Times magazine. |
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The artist's work, featuring the ancient shark Cretoxyrhina and the mosasaur Clidastes, appeared on the cover of issue #77 (April/May 2006) of Prehistoric Times magazine. |
