Tyler Keillor (pronounced “KEEL-er”) is a soft-spoken, understated paleoartist whose work is anything but. He works at the University of Chicago as a paleoartist, reconstructing creatures that paleontologist Paul Sereno excavates on his expeditions around the world. When I met Tyler eleven years ago, he was working in a cavernous, three-story high cinderblock warehouse, with no heat and no ventilation (Sereno has since turned the space into a world-class dinosaur prep lab). The walls were lined with industrial shelves stacked to the ceiling with massive plaster-encased boulders. On any given day, you could walk into the lab and see Tyler and the other fossil preparators scratching away at the rock to uncover the dinosaur bones contained within. But his work doesn’t end when the skeletons are exposed and put back together. For him, this is just the starting point for creating life-like reconstructions of animals like Sarcosuchus, Nigersaurus, and Rugops. The detail and craftsmanship that goes into these pieces has always astonished me. I interviewed Tyler over email on Sept. 25, 2011. Enjoy!
Interview with Tyler Keillor, Paleoartist
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