Just a little mishap at the Pond Hazard, but I’m just one painting behind the leader. (Link to YouTube)
Monday, September 21, 2020
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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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- Using motion blur in an oil painting
- Book Review: 'Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illu...
- Robert Bechtle (1932-2020)
- Tissot's Creative Use of Photogaphy
- Shishkin's Burdock Drawing
- Should I Choose an Art Career?
- Using Casein Over a Pretextured Canvas Board
- Shopping for Veggies
- Heavy Traffic
- Favorite Books
- Tour de Hudson Valley
- Copies of Heads by Classic Illustrators
- Plein-Air FAQ
- How Do You Respond to These Images, and What Does ...
- How They Taught Drawing to Children in 1901
- Hubert von Herkomer's On Strike
- Emily Dickinson's Home Poem #440
- Triad Challenge: "Sunny Still Life"
- Revisiting Your Childhood House
- TRIADS now available
- Sunday YouTube Premiere
- Previews of "Triads" on YouTube this Weekend
- Mat Board with Pencil and White Gouache
- Zorn's 'Breakfast in the Garden'
- Should Young Artists Study Nature or Past Masters?
- Announcing TRIADS Next Saturday
- Inspiring Story of Young Nigerian Artist
- Walter Shirlaw's Studies
- Space Shuttle on a Hellish Planet
- Questions about Dinotopia from the Bruderhof
- Last Painting by Van Gogh Paired with Postcard
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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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10 comments:
Maestro... great video... I continued to be amazed at your creativity and droll humor; however, fyi... when I turned 64 I pulled a hernia doing yard work (been gardening for almost 50 years) and 2 years later I pulled another one lugging a 25lb guitjo (guitar / banjo) to a Dixieland gig (been playing guitar for 50 years). Please be careful and don't break or pull anything out of place during the age where the mind is still a teenager, but the body is advancing 50 years or more ahead... those surgeries cut into your overhead!
That was the funniest thing I have watched in a while. Thanks for the laugh and the true words of wisdom!
Somehow, this Facebook post instantly made me think of you ...:
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1756711921144685&set=gm.3310473019008031
Agreed! Thanks James for a good laugh!
I've heard Jackson Pollock was entirely devoted to figurative painting until a spill in the pond hazard of the Tour de Hudson Valley helped him discover abstract expressionism.
I must get a unicycle - That will help justify my crap paintings!
Oh James! What a card ... straight face with the interview and all!
I need no unicycle to let my paintings look crappy :-( Unfortunately not even abstract!
"there's some mud", very good.
You're the next gen hard-core of this old Monty Pythons skit! : https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2y4fwh
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