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sarah_orange
I was never really into dinosaurs as a kid. To me, they were just dragons that couldn't fly* and couldn't breathe fire, and what was the point of THAT?
I do remember always being puzzled as to how people knew what colour dinosaurs were when all we had was fossilised bones to go on. And why, if people were just guessing, they made every single dinosaur in every single book a dull, murky green-ish brown colour. When you're 40 feet high and 1000 tonnes** you really don't need to be thinking about camouflage.
People should be more exuberant when colouring their dinosaurs. Even in the lizard world there's plenty of jewelled turquoises and jades and ambers to chose from. And once you learn that a dinosaur is really just one huge great oversized, mean-tempered*** bird, and therefore genetically designed to be pretty, well, that opens up the whole damn spectrum to use and abuse. Surely there must have been a whole paintbox of dinosaurs, happily hunting and eating one another in a vast carnivorous rainbow of delights! And in fact, it looks like science now agrees. Yay science!
I am now tempted to buy a kid's colouring book of dinosaurs and colour them all in blues and purples and pinks and golds. Which is probably what I did as a kid, come to think of it.
When I wasn't drawing dragons, that is...
*Apart from the flying ones, that didn't count.
**These figures may have been made up on the spot
***Maybe some dinosaurs had an even temperament and a lovely personality. But in my mind, they're all roaring and trampling Tokyo. I may be getting a bit confused here...
Dinosaurs for
sarah_orangeI was never really into dinosaurs as a kid. To me, they were just dragons that couldn't fly* and couldn't breathe fire, and what was the point of THAT?
I do remember always being puzzled as to how people knew what colour dinosaurs were when all we had was fossilised bones to go on. And why, if people were just guessing, they made every single dinosaur in every single book a dull, murky green-ish brown colour. When you're 40 feet high and 1000 tonnes** you really don't need to be thinking about camouflage.
People should be more exuberant when colouring their dinosaurs. Even in the lizard world there's plenty of jewelled turquoises and jades and ambers to chose from. And once you learn that a dinosaur is really just one huge great oversized, mean-tempered*** bird, and therefore genetically designed to be pretty, well, that opens up the whole damn spectrum to use and abuse. Surely there must have been a whole paintbox of dinosaurs, happily hunting and eating one another in a vast carnivorous rainbow of delights! And in fact, it looks like science now agrees. Yay science!
I am now tempted to buy a kid's colouring book of dinosaurs and colour them all in blues and purples and pinks and golds. Which is probably what I did as a kid, come to think of it.
When I wasn't drawing dragons, that is...
*Apart from the flying ones, that didn't count.
**These figures may have been made up on the spot
***Maybe some dinosaurs had an even temperament and a lovely personality. But in my mind, they're all roaring and trampling Tokyo. I may be getting a bit confused here...
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