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• Portrait of a Huron war-chief

  By Jason R. Abdale on July 19, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Hello all. This is a portrait of a war-chief of the Huron tribe named Long Spear – I don’t know how to say that in Huron/Wyandot, but I’m certain somebody out there knows. This person was supposed to be a… Read More ›

• Review of 2015 Hudson-Berkshire Wine and Food Festival

  By Jason R. Abdale on June 3, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Vacation trip to Chatham, Columbia County, New York Saturday, May 23 to Monday, May 25, 2015 During the week of May 17, 2015, I learned of the Hudson-Berkshire Wine and Food Festival, to be held upstate in the town of… Read More ›

• Prince Frederick Augustus

  By Jason R. Abdale on May 30, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Here is a portrait of Prince Frederick Augustus (1763-1827), the younger brother of Britain’s King George IV. This is how he would have looked at or around the year 1815, I think. It’s thanks to him that the British Army,… Read More ›

• Dinosaur Day 2015 at the Garvies Point Museum

  By Jason R. Abdale on April 26, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Well, it was that time of year again! Every April or so, at around the time of Easter, the Garvies Point Museum and Preserve, located in Glen Cove, Nassau County, New York, holds it annual “Dinosaur Day”. This is one… Read More ›

• Camarasaurus

  By Jason R. Abdale on March 7, 2015 • ( 7 )

  Camarasaurus, “the chambered lizard”, was a sauropod dinosaur from the Morrison Formation of western North America, dated to the late Jurassic Period about 155 to 145 million years ago. The animal gets its name from the numerous openings within its… Read More ›

• News: Stephen Czerkas, famous paleo-artist, dies at 63

  By Jason R. Abdale on January 31, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Today, I learned some very heart-breaking news. Stephen Czerkas, one of the true greats of paleo-art, recently died. He was 63 years old. The cause of death was liver cancer. Czerkas was famous for his life-sized dinosaur sculptures, and he… Read More ›

• Review of the 2014 Warwick, New York “Applefest”

  By Jason R. Abdale on October 5, 2014 • ( 0 )

  On Sunday, October 5, I attended the annual Applefest for the first time. This is a massive fair that is held in the town of Warwick (established in the late 1700s), Orange County, New York. I was informed that it… Read More ›

• Ophthalmosaurus

  By Jason R. Abdale on October 4, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

    Ophthalmosaurus was a 20 foot long ichthyosaur which swam in the oceans around Europe during the middle and late Jurassic Period. It is named after its distinctive large eyes. The coloration in the illustration that you see below is… Read More ›

• Lonchidion, a prehistoric shark

  By Jason R. Abdale on July 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  This is a drawing of Lonchidion, a hybodont shark from the Mesozoic Era. There were at least eleven different species, one of which was found in the Hell Creek Formation. I won’t get into all of the particulars regarding this… Read More ›

• Vietnamese Man

  By Jason R. Abdale on July 3, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  This was a portrait that I had done back in high school. I recently found it while rummaging through some old papers, and thought I might post it here.