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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)
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- Audio (35)
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- 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)
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- Paint Technique (249)
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- Pen and Ink (81)
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- 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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August
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- The County Fair
- Watercolor in the Wild--New Reviews
- Karla Mialynne's Photos of Realistic Drawings
- McCauley Conner Exhibition
- Macro Photos of Compound Eyes
- Hitting the road next week
- Sepia Wash Drawing
- Don't throw out your old watercolors!
- How do we move when we breathe?
- Dinotopia at the Children's House
- Trends in Painting Media
- Rousar Review of Watercolor Video
- MOMA Reframes Christina's World
- Gustav Doré in Paper Cutout Animation
- Color Corona from a Bright Sky
- "Fig" Newton, Carnival Worker
- Your Questions about Gear
- Results of the Watercolor Pigment Poll
- Custom Watercolor Sketch Kits
- Micro Watercolor Kits
- 'Girtin-spiration'
- Civil War Portrait from Life
- Fast technique for rendering textures
- Watercolor in the Wild Materials
- "Watercolor in the Wild" releases today
- Watercolor Week Begins Tomorrow
- "Troll Caught Tuna" Contest
- Mead Schaeffer
- Nude Girls Outdoors and Overcast Light
- Chopped Straw
- Bringing you on six painting adventures
- Cartoon by F. H. Townsend
- Sargent Thrashes a Farmer
- Advice for Mark
- How to Refill a Water Brush or a Fountain Pen
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You can write me at:
James Gurney
PO Box 693
Rhinebeck, NY 12572
or by email:
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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.
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.
6 comments:
Happy to see the Dutchess County Fair make its annual appearance on Gurney Journey! I'm guessing we'll see more from it over the next few days. As always, a wonderful watercolor sketch. It's almost as though the juggler is a light source within the circle of onlookers. It also appears the building's roof had a temporary location in the middle background, a space now occupied by clouds. Finally, though it's probably not the case, the silhouette figure on the right could be the one making the painting.
Good observations, as always, Steve. That phantom roof in the sky was an early lay-in attempted from a different location. It was a stone bench, which we quickly discovered was the busy exit and entrance port for a hive of wasps.
Would you mind sharing how to did the "steak" sign?
Richard
I've been working on adding tiny people to my sketches, love your tiny people…
Richard, just a small round. Thanks, Capt.
Was this done on location? Amazing. I went to the NY State fair and was visually overloaded.
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