Gen Conway

@trigonotarbida

Palaeoart & various other biology art. Palaeontology student (4th year) and into a range of hiking and nature stuff (though I particularly like strange arachnids and crustaceans). open for commissions: gencoelacanth@gmail.com

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Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· 5d

Scorpion painting I have been working on

Photograph of an oil painting of a close up of an orange scorpion's mothparts

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Jul 18

finally light to photograph it :) painting of some waves during a storm at the beach last summer

photograph of an oil painting of green waves with a purple sky reflected onto the ocean

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Jul 16

more greenish grey

more progress on an oil painting of green waves

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Jul 16

practicing painting various greyish colours

photo of an in process oil painting of a grey sea

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Jul 15

Painting of my very cute mutual @idrawsdinosaurs.bsky.social

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Jun 12

platypus oil painting :)

photograph of an oil painting of a brown platypus swimming through green water

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Jun 11

painting fur is taking a bit of time to get the hang of

close up of part of an oil painted platypus (painting in progress)

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Jun 8

Working on a platypus oil painting

In progress image of an oil painting of a platypus swimming through rippling green water on a table

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Jun 3

finally drawing some palaeoart (currently it is just the sketch for the rocks in the background but there will be an extinct animal eventually...)

rough digital sketch of some basalt rocks at the edge of the ocean

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· May 1

What did they do to my creature.. (colour filter and weird ai edit thing presumably which made the bill shorter and added a bunch of shark like teeth at the front... and most nefariously of course removed the dolphins...)

Image of a strange creature based on an obdurodon platypus in blue water

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Apr 30

The beautiful 'illustration really filtered and distorted in media coverage' experience... why is she purple...

screenshot of a drawing of an extinct platypus in a news article that has been filtered to have very high contrast and a purple tint

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Apr 29

Here is the full illustration

digital illustration of an Obdurodon insignis (which looks mostly like a modern platypus because we have very little material of it... except with 2 sharp premolars, a more rounded snout and slightly larger eyes) approaching a small lungfish swimming through vegetation in a large lake. There are dolphins with long snouts in the background and some small fish.

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Apr 24

Oil painting of the semi arid southeast australia mallee in the late afternoon, I can't remember exactly where I took the photo I referenced but I think somewhere near Gluepot reserve #LandscapePainting #OilPainting

photograph of a painting of a landscape with orange sand and sparse, yellowish green vegetation

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Apr 19

Using the leftover paint to do the underpainting for another one. There's rocks

Blue and white and some slightly green paint painted onto a blue canvas in the shapes of rocks at the beach

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Apr 19

Well this is as far as it's going to get until that layer dries

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Apr 19

My graphite rock drawings up in the Waterhouse exhibition at the South Australian Museum at the moment :)

Photograph of graphite drawings of rocks on a wall

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Apr 19

Oil paint time again

Partially painted canvas on a sheet of glass with various paints and jars in the background

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Apr 15

Some of my illustrations for it :) there's going to be a media release and drawing of the animal soon I think doi.org/10.1071/AZ26...

Fig. 2.

Lower first molars of Obdurodon species. (a) Occlusal view of Obdurodon insignis, image of cast of holotype SAMA P18087, mirrored for ease of comparison (imperfections in cast occur in the transverse valley and between the hypoconulids) and (b) Occlusal view of Obdurodon dicksoni from Archer et al. (1993, fig. 7.1). Other images are of SAMA P55061: (c) in occlusal; (d) buccal; and (e) lingual views. The interpretative drawings on the right of c–e are by G. Conway. NC1 is the anterolingual cusp of the talonid. Scale bar, 5 mm.

Fig. 4.

Photographs of the upper right second premolar SAMA P55167 of Obdurodon insignis in (a) lingual, (b) buccal, and (c) apical views. (d–f) Interpretative drawings of (a–c) by G. Conway. (g) The upper right second premolar of O. dicksoni QM F57736 from Flannery et al. (2022, fig. 2B IV) in buccal view, although the orientation is somewhat rotated towards the posterior compared to (b) and (e), and (h) apical view. Scale bar, 5 mm.

Fig. 5.

Lateral views of monotreme scapulae as photographs above and interpretative drawings below, comparing the partial right scapulocoracoid of Obdurodon insignis SAMA P58379 to Ornithorhynchus anatinus, SAMA M14097, and Tachyglossus aculeatus, FUR 087, by G. Conway. Scale bar, 20 mm.

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Apr 6

another wip

digital illustration in progress showing some rocks and green vegetation underwater

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Mar 22

water

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Mar 11

Charcoal drawing of Mangkurtu mityula, a spelaegriphacea crustacean from groundwater

charcoal drawing of a spelaegriphacean crustacean with many segments and branching appendages on a black background

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Feb 28

charcoal drawing again, this time a cave rock wall mostly done with charcoal pencil

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Feb 21

Charcoal scorpion work in progress

Photograph of a partially drawn charcoal drawing of a scorpion

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Feb 18

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Feb 15

Graphite powder attempt 1 a cyphophthalmid arachnid, which is actually a type of harvestman.

graphite drawing of a a cyphophthalmid arachnid, a small round segmented animal with short legs on moss

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Feb 14

Trying charcoal powder

Photo of an in progress drawing of a Cyphophthalmi harvestman on moss

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Feb 12

arachnid palaeontology book from 1904 I saw today the title page with the very art nouveau font and the swirly vegetation (and of course the trigonotarbid) is really cute I wish it was more common to have these sorts of decorations :)

cover for a book titled 'Palaeozoische Arachniden' by Dr. A. Fritsch with a swirly stylised waterlily design in the top corner and a lineart trigonotarbid

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Feb 8

rocks #graphite

graphite drawing of a cracked basalt rock from a shore platform

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Feb 6

Hopefully finishing this tomorrow (I am always saying this)

Mostly finished graphite drawing of some basalt rocks

Gen Conway@trigonotarbida· Feb 1

Also thought I'd post these, some dry pastel landscapes from the past 2 years. It's a really good way to practice landscape stuff. #landscapedrawing