Okay, so it's another day later already!!!
Trilobite(8x10 oils, $100)
Okay so, here's the trilobite! I figured 12am counted as the "next day" and I promised this. Well, it's not as good as the onion, but hey, it's a 300 Million year old fossil. We should all look as good at that age and wind up fossilized at least. A trilobite is a tri-lobed water bug(essentially) from the prehistoric age, one of the first life forms of it's kind, and a cornerstone of anyone's fossil collection. Mine is from Morocco, I recall and has this golden color to it, and seems like it was embedded in a clay. I forgot where I got this, but it seemed like a neat subject to paint in a half hour.
Okay so, here's the trilobite! I figured 12am counted as the "next day" and I promised this. Well, it's not as good as the onion, but hey, it's a 300 Million year old fossil. We should all look as good at that age and wind up fossilized at least. A trilobite is a tri-lobed water bug(essentially) from the prehistoric age, one of the first life forms of it's kind, and a cornerstone of anyone's fossil collection. Mine is from Morocco, I recall and has this golden color to it, and seems like it was embedded in a clay. I forgot where I got this, but it seemed like a neat subject to paint in a half hour. posted by Bob Eggleton (Zillabob) | 12:01 AM
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Beautiful specimen, Bob. I have a couple of similar ones, gifts from a friend, that are also from Morocco, and have that same golden sheen. (There's a guy in Toronto fandom who is a big-time Trilobite collector; he's the one who gave them to me.) Hope all is well with you and Marianne!
Your Paleozoic pal,
Rob
HEY ROB! Thanks for stopping by, I knew if I put some Paleo stuff up it would be as moths to the candle...I'll do more, other than the Trilo an the Trike from before..
rilobite, right Dwight's in the light-bite
Trilobite, right in the light-bite, Dwight
Basking on the shores of time
The little stone creature ain't dead to the world
They call him
Trilobite, right Dwight's in the light-bite
Trilobite, right in the light-bite, Dwight
Clicking away for a second of fame
A billion years later they give it a name
They call it
Trilobite, right Dwight's in the light-bite
Trilobite, right in the light-bite, Dwight
When I'm too wasted these rocks to clamber
Then lean me on the cliff and encase me in amber
And a creature from future in
Way out when
Will clock my fossil and name me Sven
That's a nice name
Alright!
Built for a world where nothing needs shaving
Look at them stone antennae a-waving
Trilobite, right Dwight's in the light-bite
Trilobite, right in the light-bite, Dwight
Let's hold a clicking championship
The Trilobite wins and everybody else loses
--Robyn Hitchcock, "Trilobite"
That Lou, is totally amazing. Very very cool. Thanks!
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