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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.
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January
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- The Action Art of Mort Kunstler
- Mosaic Imps Sweater
- Animation Exhibition in Mexico
- WAMC Public Radio Interview
- Dinotopia Exhibition coming to Connecticut
- Book Review: Goodbye Old Man
- Nerdtopia
- Dinotopia Podcast Episode 12
- Botched Restorations
- Interview with Grammarly
- Mikhail Ryasnyansky (1926-2003)
- Animated Sand Toys and Music Boxes
- Dreamworks to Close its Northern California Animat...
- Julius Kronberg, Swedish Academian
- Anders Zorn's "Une première"
- Dinotopia Podcast, Episode 11
- Oregon Ducks fans reject mascot redesign
- Stylistic Evolution
- Studio Tips
- How to Video Your Art: Microphones / Recorders
- Knitted Beards on Babies
- MovieBarCode
- Manfred Schatz — Wildlife in Action
- Dinotopia Podcast Episode 10
- Digital tool for analyzing color gamuts
- Insect Vision
- Parallel Palette on Kickstarter
- Line of Action in Art
- #JeSuisCharlie
- Translating "Color and Light" into Japanese
- Dinotopia Podcast, Episode Nine
- Walter Baumhofer Book
- Figurehead Maquette
- Seven Reasons to Enter Spectrum
- IFX Maquette Series
- Drawing Grids
- Escaping our Borders
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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.
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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.
13 comments:
Amen to that!
The only better statement would be a cartoon of Muhammed.
Je suis Charlie!
Today I hope folks better understand the Reconquista...
Thanks, Arturo, Zoe, Elgin, and Connie.
Douglas, I have read David Hockney's book, and I've seen the documentary Tim's Vermeer, and I think both of them make a certain amount of sense, though I think Hockney overstates the case a bit. I believe many artists have been interested in lenses, mirrors, and other devices to achieve accuracy. "Tim's Vermeer" demonstrates a plausible device with a mirror on a stick and a concave mirror that Vermeer might have used. I think similar results might be achieved using a camera lucida (prism on a stick), or even a simple drawing grid. And it's entirely possible to get complete accuracy using nothing more than a plumb line and a straightedge.
Beautiful, Jim. We are all French today.
Good idea, realised in an instant, your liberty statue.
"Je suis Charlie"...
...and I am Ahmed as well, the dead cop on the scene, having been shot while lying wounded on the street, pleading for mercy. Ahmed may exclaim:
"Charlie ridiculed my faith and culture and I died defending his right to do so.
I am Ahmed.
beautiful homage
Formidable!
I live in Paris and have been following your blog for some time. I find it very interesting.
I was very touched by the assassination of the 5 artists from Charlie Hebdo .Your homage is important and beautiful
Thank you for your hommage...
I think everyone is concerned but beeing both french and illustrator, I feel particularly touched by your drawing.
Freedom of expression is everyone's right. As a Muslim-American and also an author-illustrator, I live by that myself. Those who really love God, Muslim or otherwise, acknowledge that to believe in Him is to believe in free will--and all the freedom of choice and expression that comes with that.
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