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Home > Illustrations > Spooking the Rhinos

Spooking the Rhinos

By Gregory Manchess | Created: 2017

Spooking the Rhinos
Publication
  • "Above the Timberline" by Gregory Manchess
Publication Date
  • October 24, 2017
Medium
  • Oil
Support
  • Linen
Illustration Size
  • 15 x 37 in.

©Gregory Manchess

As Manchess began crafting a story that occurs in a distant future on Earth, he also wondered how creatures might adapt to a global freezing. In Above the Timberline, polar bears seem to have fared well, although tropical rhinoceroses appear to have evolved with thick coats of fur in order to survive.

"Many of my students ask, 'How is it that you get [a painting] to feel like it's moving?' A lot of that is in the kinetics of the strokes. But the strokes aren't all going the same direction and they're not all the same level of stroke."

Genres
  • Books
  • Interior Illustration
  • Fantasy
  • Science Fiction
Global Perspectives
  • North America
Related Time Periods
  • The Decade 2010-2020 The Decade 2010-2020

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