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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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2014
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September
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- Turner Paints a Man-of-War
- Troll-Caught Tuna Contest Results
- Night Sketching in Alleys
- John Seerey-Lester Doing a Demo
- Equinox Effect
- Launching an Art Tutorial on Gumroad
- Pixar supercut arranged ROYGBIV
- Recital Audience
- Flint's Watercolor Sketching Gear
- Book Review: Sketching from Square One to Trafalga...
- Underpainting Review of "How I Paint Dinosaurs"
- Lunch Prep in Casein
- Painting from Taxidermy
- Amazing Progress
- Traps on the Coal Cabin
- School Bus
- Constructing with the Brush
- Painting a Saddle in Watercolor
- John Seerey-Lester
- Video of the antique boiler
- Rolling Studio
- New Hat
- Product Review: Travel Brush Set
- Painting a Mountaintop View
- Abbott Color Wheel
- Social Media
- Portable Boiler
- Manual Typewriter
- Complementary Shadows
- Kickflips
- Overpass, Colby Kansas
- Ribbon Designs
- Indiana Theater
- Four Ways to Combine Audio With Your Artwork
- Kent, Ohio
- Gurney Casein Exhibit
- Your Roving Arts Reporter
- Modulating Greens in Watercolor
- Prismatic Palette
- Ebb and Flow of Artists' Reputations
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September
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Contact
You can write me at:
James Gurney
PO Box 693
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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.
6 comments:
Awesome!!
Given Zachary's work in digital art...even though it's not April 1st...I do wonder...
I got such a chuckle out of this!
The one thing that gives it away, though, is that you're not doing a watercolor sketch at the same time...
Protect the fingers! Protect the fingers!
What do you mean...'Gives it away!'? Could this be some kind of... wait a minute, your right... he doesn't have his drawing gear! Nice try Jimi Gi -RQ
Another thing: the wristwatch is on the right (wrong) wrist.
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