Draw me a dino, by Michel Fontaine

In 1989, the designer Michel Fontaine was a student at the Beaux-Arts, when he wanted to fulfill an old childhood dream: to look for dinosaurs. Luck wanted a team from the National Museum of Natural History in Paris (MNHN) needs a field photographer, a skill he developed during his studies. From that day, successive meetings and discoveries have followed. Just graduated, he favored paleontological reconstruction over photography, thus responding to a request from paleontologists to illustrate wildlife fossil.

This is how he kept in touch with the field, because discovery is a powerful stimulant. It is a chance to participate in excavations, come to the site, soak up it, see and discover fossil organisms, sometimes modestly (a few vertebrae or a rib ..) and other times, they are animals of large sizes which require a lot of time and means to be extracted in good conditions, ie without breakage. Clearance is a very fun way to learnanatomy dinosaurs. The presence of paleontologists is a boon to learn about the characteristics of these animals, precious data that will be used later to reconstruct them.

Michel Fontaine works on orders for scientific publications, popular works or for permanent exhibitions of museums as works the MNHN, the Museum of Esperaza, etc.