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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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2009
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November
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- Scaling Up with a Grid
- Repin's Duelling Shapes
- Clothespins and Crabb
- Greek Edition of Dinotopia
- Sargent's Repainting
- Dead Tech: Esterbrook Inkwell
- Shady Diamond Illusion
- Do Artists See Differently?
- Across the Border
- Blog Nods
- Back to the U.S.A. Border
- Eagle Owl in Slo Mo
- Waterhouse Expedition: Impressions
- The Waterhouse Expedition: Border Problems
- Lines and Colors
- Art Out Loud Video
- Spectrum 16
- Bloomsbury Auction
- Abbey's Morgan Hall
- Howard Pyle Blog
- 100 Free Audio Books
- William Bliss Baker (1859-1886)
- Giovannetti's Skaters
- Hello to China
- Art By Committe: Gray Fringe
- Book Trailer Contest
- Dorne's Pragmatic Idealism
- Monster’s Assistant
- How to Get Published
- Walter Wick at Work
- Maintenance Man
- The Eyes Have It
- Wayback Machine
- The Giant of Nantes
- Sketching the Mechanical Elephant
- Enchantment Symposium Tomorrow
- Soviet War Art
- BoingBoinged
- Backlit Parked Car
- Drawn Together
- Prix Art et Fact to J.B. Monge
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Contact
You can write me at:
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.
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.
7 comments:
hmmm, is this real?
fantastic drawing either way....
I'm glad to see that Nantes inspired you. It Was a pleasure to meet you at the Utopiales, my students and I.
It was an immense pleasure too, to hear you about french romantic painters like Bougereau or Dagnan Bouveret ...
Great paintings, great moment,great painter and great man !
GooGoo: the cranes and the canal are real. No one else seemed to notice the giant.
Merci beaucoup, Laurent. I am still in awe of all the amazing artists we met in Nantes, and embarrassed that we didn't know more about them before the event.
I love this. It's so exciting to see such a great vision in such a simple work. What a great blog.
nice one james, stuff like this is always very inspirational to me. im a fan of the imaginitive on location sketches
So great!!!!!!!
Has he lost his mind?
Can he see or is he blind?
Can he walk at all?
Or, if he moves, will he fall?
Is he alive or dead?
Has he thoughts within his head?
...
Nobody wants him
He just stares at the world
Planning his vengeance
That he will soon unfurl.
...yeah, I couldn't resist.
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