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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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- Tips for Painting Realistically in Gouache and Wat...
- Vertebral Drawbridge
- Monet Contemplates Eye Surgery
- Early Plein-Air Painters featured in Washington DC
- Greek Painter in Munich: Nikolaos Gyzis
- Florence Atelier on CBS Sunday Morning
- How Edward Cooke's Paintings Help Historians
- Can You Varnish Casein?
- John Steel, Model-Box Magician
- The hub of the color wheel
- Prohaska's Painting Method
- Extreme Expressions
- Online Trove of Natural History Images
- Fire and Ice Original to Be Auctioned March 1-2, 2020
- King Piye Behind the Scenes
- How to fool Google's image-recognition algorithm
- Turner Sketches Durham Cathedral
- Jamming at the Flurry
- How to Make a Faux Bronze Plaque
- Hollywood Backdrops on CBS News
- Abstract Paintings—by Humans or A.I.?
- Casein Contest
- Spoonbill Studies
- Optical Illusion: Sloping Blue Stripes
- Light Temperature
- Is an Innocent Eye Possible?
- Watercolors of Myles Birket Foster
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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.
4 comments:
You are SIMPLY AMAZING! You brain works way better than MY brain, and likely better than many of your other followers. But your IMAGINATION? MIND BLOWING!!!
Thanks for sharing everything you share. Whew (catching my breath!)
You remind me of my Dad who was always making gadgets. Love your creativity using the simplest parts (ie.Legos!!!) & making it look so easy to make.
The greatest mental distraction in the world is fussing with gadgets, tools, jigs and such things. It's an abstract form of meditation.
I just finished making a carving knife for woodblocks. The time spent shaping the handle to fit my hand, cutting and fitting the brass bolster, shaping and sharpening the blade took me away from the world of political turmoil, stress over pandemics, and a myriad of other like issues.
Find your distraction. Whatever it may be you'll feel better for it.
Thanks yet again James.
I relate to "beltedcows" comment as this also reminds me so much of techniques my father used for his projects (he did lots of dimensional, sculptural things that mimicked all sorts of finishes yet just made of wood and putty). I've used similar techniques to fix our very old church creche figures that were just crumbling away.
I really enjoy these sorts of how-to videos. I was wondering if this project was filmed some time ago considering when you first introduced this visual into your YouTube videos.
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