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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)
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- Old Haunts
- Gurning
- Vulnerable T.Rex
- Illustrated Classics
- Bix Maquettes
- Home: Jungle Edition
- Syracuse University
- Dinosaurs Invade Elementary Schools
- Texture in the Halflight
- Windmill Maquette
- Place Names
- Sketch of Joe
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Bakery Baby
- Radio Interview
- Rain and Neon
- Art at SUNY Fredonia
- Photo Reference
- The Laundromat & the Non-Motif
- Gallery One
- Skybax Model
- Dead Air Syndrome
- South Bend to Three Rivers
- Capturing a Cumulus
- Valparaiso Viewpoints
- Science, Art, and Fantasy
- Grey Hair or None?
- Answers to Art History, Simplified
- Oshkosh Opening
- Studio Lighting: Part III: Edge Lighting
- Road Kill
- Art History, Simplified
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Contact
You can write me at:
James Gurney
PO Box 693
Rhinebeck, NY 12572
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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.
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.
Permissions
All images and text are copyright 2020 James Gurney and/or their respective owners. Dinotopia is a registered trademark of James Gurney. For use of text or images in traditional print media or for any commercial licensing rights, please email me for 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.
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:
Not a tough question at all,
I personally prefer having hair...no matter what color. I bump my head often and am thankful for the crash helmet cushion for my clumsiness.
How does one go about requesting a school visit from you, Mr. Gurney? Our local University could benefit from the buzz of a nationally known illustrator of your calibre coming to our little burg. Not many shekels to offer but lots of southern hospitality!
Hope you consider the offer,
-Jonathan Gilpin,
On behalf of the University of KY Art Department
Hi, Jonathan,
Good to hear from you in the great state of Kentucky. Don't know if I'm going to be able to swing down there in 2008, but please go ahead and have someone from the school contact me at PO Box 693, Rhinebeck, NY 12572, and if possible send information about the program down there.
Best wishes, JG.
you continue to crack me up on a daily basis, your photographer is a master (not sure who took this one, if it wasn't a timed shot) and your mastery of exaggerated expression puts me to shame... More, I say!
Hahahah! Priceless shot!
Let's get back to the question at hand - an important one at that: Grey hair or None? Personally, I love having little to no hair. It only takes 3 seconds to do my hair every day and I never worry that the wind will mess it up. As they say, "God only made so many perfect heads and on the rest he put hair."
But it's not a question of looks - it's a matter of personal health! Bald heads get sunburned in the summer and cold in the winter but the most serious handicap for me was mentioned by "j gilpin": head trauma.
Hair can act like whiskers on a cat and tell you, "Hey, you are about to hit the corner of the kitchen cabinets!" Without that warning we are left to our own wits to save us and that hasn't worked out too well for me.
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