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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- Plein-air painting in New York City
- Forest in Maya
- Hue discrimination color test
- Backpack Blower
- Chinese step-by-step portrait
- A White Building in Shadow
- Summer Exhibitions
- Survival Guide for Art Students
- Howard Scott's Billboard Art
- Car Dealership
- Unmade Beds
- Crescent Wrench Factory
- Loomis's Scheme for Tonal Organization
- Changes in Movie Poster Colors
- The Lost Chick
- Edgar Payne Exhibition
- Dodging Bullets
- Bracelet Shading
- Demo Day at IMC
- Crowdsourcing and Worldbuilding
- Dockside Scene
- Tyrannosaur Attacking Strutter
- Our heads are getting larger
- Scientist approaches a lake of lava
- Henrietta and Her Babies
- Speaking Likeness
- Jordu Schell's Monster Sculptures
- Allentown Museum thank-you sketch
- Fast-growing chickens
- Light Spill
- Artist Automaton
- Lepidopter in Second Life
- Mammatus Clouds
- Iceberg flipping over
- The Stroop Effect
- "Art of the Fantastic" opens tomorrow
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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.
5 comments:
Best wishes for Le Mans! Dan Gurney has always been a hero.
I saw a t-shirt in the video, something like "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." That's pretty much my personal mantra. Are those shirts available for purchase?
Such an awesome Friday Fun Fact that your cousin is involved with one of the most exciting and cutting edge things on the planet- auto racing!
What a talented family, would love to hear about what kind of stuff you two got into as kids.
En B -- When I was a kid, Dan Gurney gave me a model car (with working headlights), and his signature on it saying "To Jim, Drive this car carefully." It was the first thing I ever had signed by a famous person, and I cherished it. My dad was roughly Dan's age when they both were kids, and they used to race tricycles. You can guess who won every time! What the whole family shares (my sons included) is the engineer gene or temperament, wanting to come up with some completely new idea and try to make it work.
Jeff, I wish I had one of those shirt, too! I don't know where you can get them.
Wow Jim - so cool! I never knew there was a connection between you and Dan Gurney! Growing up I was part of some kind of Dan Gurney Racing Team fan club...as I recall the coolest thing was collecting racing stickers and putting them in a special binder. Pretty sure that is what steered me toward graphic design.
Anyway, great story and I wish the team great success!
Jeff
Batman Would have been proud.
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