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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.
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January
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- J. Gurney's Daguerreotype Gallery
- My Eighth Grade Portrait Disaster
- Chromatic Snow Sparkles
- So Long, Pete Seeger
- The Value of Copying
- Music video with digital transformation of singer
- Art Teacher Portrait Winners
- Non-Photographic Rendering
- Dinotopia on King of the Nerds
- Animated paintings
- Storytelling tips
- Flying on the Back of a Giant
- Small Figures
- Sargent watercolor techniques: Five observations
- Sylvia doll prototype
- Dr. Seuss documentary
- Article on painting blacksmiths
- You must begin!
- Christine Lavin
- Successive Contrast
- Before you can see the light....
- Dutch masters paintings deconstructed
- Henry Patrick Raleigh, Illustrator
- Spectrum and ARC deadlines coming soon
- DIY knitted deadcat microphone windscreen
- Sketch Your Art Teacher Contest
- Book Review: "Jim Henson: The Biography"
- Tissot's Three Wise Men
- Making Ice Towers
- Character sketch of Anders Zorn
- CG film of butterfly traveling through still life
- More reviews of "How I Paint Dinosaurs"
- Bierstadt's Malkasten
- Video of painting with hands and feet simultaneously
- New edition of "First Flight" coming in April
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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.
6 comments:
Very nice painting! Taking a break from casein?
Sage advise along with a nice little painting!
...and in between all these varied Greys, the whole range displayed in your painting here.
So fascinating a color: From high priced most valued pearls (pearl grey) to the dullest and cheapest-looking washed-up concrete.
The whole range.
Connie, I switch back and forth constantly. But I don't bring my caseins everywhere, just because my carry-all pack is a belt pouch, and that only fits the basics.
Yes, Yvonne, I suppose you could take that quote in a lot of different ways. I first thought of a technical application, that you have to paint around the lights with the darks before you can really see what the light shapes look like. I'm sure there are more profound meanings.
Rich, this sketch was worked over a failed portrait, which is where all the warm colors are leaking in from. I like to rub out bad sketches because they give a nice base for trying again.
Not to overdo metaphors, but "rub out bad sketches because they give a nice base for trying again" can be taken figuratively as well as literally.
One time my brother got a fortune cookie, and the message said, "You love to eat Chinese food." Not related to painting, but the wisdom was impeccable.
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