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97-017 "Don't Mess With Loch Ness"
1997, acrylic on illustration board

The long necked plesiosaur Elasmosaurus here shows off its business end, armed with sharp and forward angled teeth. Whether plesiosaurs ever ventured into shallows is unknown, although they were air breathing reptiles and thus tied to the surface of the water (unlike fish). If the background seems perhaps vaguely like a certain lake in Scotland, I will admit I wanted the image to serve publications for that need as well. I do not take a stance on whether "Nessie" is fact or fiction (I would love her to be genuine of course), but wouldn't this make a lovely memento photograph of your Scottish vacation? By the way, the subtitle of this painting is "NOW I believe it".

Chris Butler