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Life Lessons from Dinosaurs
Art from Dinotopia plus whimsical wisdom
James Gurney
This weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney is for illustrators, plein-air painters, sketchers, comic artists, animators, art students, and writers. You'll find practical studio tips, insights into the making of the Dinotopia books, and first-hand reports from art schools and museums.
Blog Index
- Academic Painters (609)
- Animals (323)
- Animation (135)
- Architecture (37)
- Art By Committee (44)
- Art Podcasts (3)
- Art Schools (105)
- Audio (35)
- Book reviews (82)
- Casein Painting (91)
- Catskill Mountains (11)
- Clementoons (12)
- Color (248)
- Color and Light Book (83)
- Comics/Cartooning (169)
- Composition (105)
- Computer Graphics (107)
- Dinosaurs (112)
- Dinotopia (231)
- Effects/Phenomena (44)
- Elementary Schools (10)
- Figure Drawing (65)
- GJ Book Club (7)
- Golden Age Illustration (329)
- Gouache (229)
- Hudson River School (59)
- Illustrated Books (35)
- Imaginative Realism (53)
- Journey to Chandara (138)
- Lettering (42)
- Lighting (139)
- Living Sketchbook (11)
- Miniatures (79)
- Models Posing (55)
- Movie Studios (15)
- Museum Visits (213)
- Paint Technique (249)
- Painting Gear (89)
- Pen and Ink (81)
- Pencil Sketching (279)
- Perspective (28)
- Photography (66)
- Plein Air Painting (220)
- Portraits (341)
- Preliminary Sketches (75)
- Printmaking (12)
- Puppets (3)
- Rabbit Trails (119)
- Ranger Rick (10)
- road tour (63)
- Sculpture (22)
- Toys (16)
- Video (200)
- Visual Perception (153)
- Watercolor Painting (355)
- Writing (68)
Blog Archive
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November
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- Oblique Pen Holder
- Riding a Pterosaur
- BBC Video on Russian Art
- Illustration feature on Walt Reed
- Headlamp sketching
- Behind Skybax Rider
- Across the River
- Thanksgiving Cornucopia
- Trance States
- Octopus Walks on Land
- Dinotopia Teaching Unit
- Viking Raid
- Character Designer
- Caught looking
- A natural position
- Booksigning in New York Saturday Nov. 26
- Schoonover Studios
- Constructing Images of Brain Activity
- “A sheer miracle which defies analysis”
- Armand Cabrera and Garin Baker
- Sunbeams and Dappled Light in International Artist
- Howard Pyle Exhibit Opening
- Painting Demo at MICA
- Drawing Everything
- University of the Arts, Philadelphia
- Dinotopia books on their way
- Gammell on Training Painters
- A Visit to CCAD
- The Idea Monster
- Howard Pyle Exhibition, Book, and Lecture
- Horn Player
- Dinotopia Special 20th Anniversary Edition released
- Norman Rockwell goes around the world
- Self-similar textures in 3D computer graphics
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PO Box 693
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Sorry, I can't give personal art advice or portfolio reviews. If you can, it's best to ask art questions in the blog comments.
James Gurney
PO Box 693
Rhinebeck, NY 12572
or by email:
gurneyjourney (at) gmail.com
Sorry, I can't give personal art advice or portfolio reviews. If you can, it's best to ask art questions in the blog comments.
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However, you can quote images or text without asking permission on your educational or non-commercial blog, website, or Facebook page as long as you give me credit and provide a link back. Students and teachers can also quote images or text for their non-commercial school activity. It's also OK to do an artistic copy of my paintings as a study exercise without asking permission.
However, you can quote images or text without asking permission on your educational or non-commercial blog, website, or Facebook page as long as you give me credit and provide a link back. Students and teachers can also quote images or text for their non-commercial school activity. It's also OK to do an artistic copy of my paintings as a study exercise without asking permission.
5 comments:
Could this mean there is an evolutionary future for land cephalopods ?
In the meantime, this video could be a nice basis for animating a Lovecraftian chaotic creature in a horror movie.
You know, it's much easier if you just build a tripod.
There was a great Discovery Channel program about this very thing! It was called The Future is Wild and projected that some 200 million years in the future squid descendants might colonize land.
The Megasquid is just fascinating!
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/future-is-wild/future-is-wild.html
I love octopi--they're such fascinating, innovative creatures that area always full of surprises. I was aware of their ability to locomote on land for short periods of time but this is the first time I've ever seen one in action. I love the way its tentacles pool out gracefully from beneath its body.
Did he just take out his trash??
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