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From Dinotopia: The World Beneath

BBC / Apple TV teased a sneak peek of Prehistoric Planet, narrated by David Attenborough. It mixes what appears to be live-action footage of hatchling turtles with computer-generated dinosaurs.

Many art movements are plagued with copycats and forgeries. But by illustrating or listing each major painting by each artist, he has created a public visual record of the whole field.

His first book was published in 1980, called simply BN Origins Zero Oil Face Wash ORIGINAL FORMULA, and it contained Abercrombie Fitch Denim Jean shorts Size 27 of the field such as Chuck Close, Tom Blackwell, and Richard Estes.

Photorealism Since 1980 continues in the same format. It's an oversize book, nearly two inches thick, well illustrated in color, and jammed-full of work.

Photorealism At the Millennium contains many of the same artists, plus some new ones such as Rod Penner.

His most recent volume is called Photorealism in the Digital Age.

These sketches were in my proposal for a National Geographic story on Tim Severin's Ulysses Voyage of Ulysses, a classic subject if there ever was one.

Find a feather? What bird is it from? 

By law you're not supposed to possess feathers from wild birds (in order to protect birds from being hunted for their feathers), but there are a couple of good websites to help with feather identification anyway.

The Fish and Wildlife Service has a website called Feather Atlas that helps you identify feathers based on  color, position, pattern, size, and kind of bird.

Featherbase is another website focusing on bird feathers. The site lays out the feathers of a given bird, and arranging them in groups so you can see the variety of feather types that cover a bird's body. 

I'm working on an article about the uses of tracing paper. I'm trying to recall all the varieties of transparent paper and their characteristics. If I've forgotten a type or overlooked some key information, please let me know in the comments. 

• Flimsy | Lightweight and very transparent tracing paper in white or yellow. Resists bleed-through. Comes in a roll up to 48 inches wide by 100 yards long.

• Tracing paper | Most universal paper for sketching, overlays, corrections, tracing, and transfer. Usually sold in pads, quite transparent.

• Onion skin | A thin, light paper made for typewriters in a time when airmail rates demanded light weight. The slightly waxy surface allows for relatively easy erasures. Term “onion-skinning” used in digital world to describe the ghosted display of adjacent frames.

• Animation paper | Sturdy but translucent paper punched for alignment pegs and designed for pencil and pen.

• Layout paper | Smooth-surface bond, slightly transparent, takes markers without bleeding through.

• Cotton Vellum | Typically comes in rolls, made from 100% pure cotton fiber, archival, sturdy, and ideal for inking, transferring a drawing, or making a blueprint.