Lizard Fight

While in Orlando, Florida last month (spring break) we saw a pair of Broadhead Skinks fighting and  biting.  They clawed at each other and lashed with their tails.  It's likely that they were fighting for a mate-males have orange heads during the mating season in the spring and male skinks are known to engage in nasty battles for access to females.

Komodo Dragon

Tyrannimated Monsters in the Valley of Gwangi

Stuttering pterodactyls
are scre-scre-screeching overhead,
the echo rings along the stony canyon walls
as cowboys thunder into the valley,
six-guns and lassoes,
and repeaters at the ready.

In this isolated valley at the desert's edge
reptilian relics are preserved
in the retro-future vision of Saint Harryhausen.
In this valley, by a confusion of scale
impossible rear-projected monsters
succumb to the guns of horse riding heroes.

Frilled Lizard

Frill-Necked Lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii)

painted (acrylic) and carved on a wood panel.

I started work on this little dragon about 4 years ago, but didn't finish.  I don't remember why I set him aside, but I'm glad I saved him.  I found him buried in a pile of old work and decided to finish bringing him to life.

Reptile Show

The Lizard Men are coming!

Their heralds shout to us

from striped tents at the fair.

Prepare ye the forked tongue way.

Make ready a warm flat stone.

The Lizard Men are coming!

They are coming...