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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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2019
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August
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- Announcing the Windchaser Ebook
- Sketch of the Farmer's Market
- What's the difference between watercolor and gouache?
- Your Gouache Questions Answered
- Animal Painter Rudolf Koller
- How to Paint Shiny Reflective Surfaces
- Our visual system elaborates meager input
- Harry Anderson Techniques
- Meme Propagation
- Paint Technique: Bravura vs. Patience
- Damascus Gate
- Tombs of the Kidron Valley
- Focusing Light on One Part of the Painting
- R.I.P. Richard Williams, Animator and Teacher
- Serov's Fable Illustrations
- A Street in Ravenna by Signorini
- Challenges Faced by Women in Art Academies
- Robert Wood's landscape prints
- Sci-Fi Art Auction Today
- The Fadeaway Girl and the Kanizsa Triangle
- Mark English, 1933-2019
- Drayton Grant Park at Burger Hill
- Ambigram
- The Rustic Style
- I Paint a Jeep
- Lookin' at You
- What Pigments did J.M.W. Turner Use?
- Volumetric Lighting
- Learning by Copying
- Transfiguration
- A Preliminary Study by Carl Haag
- Daniel Gardner's Gouache-and-Pastel Portraits
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August
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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.
12 comments:
Ha! That is great.
Just remember to watch your step! :D
You look like Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen!
Mr. Gurney, should we be concerned?...
CREEPY!
(love Luca's comment)
Bill
Cool!
Not your normal sketchbook. What type is that one?
I find that the polarization offered by my sunglasses often results in a pleasing image, especially of cumulus clouds on a bright day. So I've often toyed with the idea of sketching with a get-up something like you're rocking here: sunglasses for viewing the image to be sketched, reading (or no) glasses for looking at the sketch. A sort of (pardon me) weird bi-focal-type situation. Yet - I suppose for obvious reasons - I haven't gotten around to actually trying that...Any chance that's what you were up to?
Tom, yes, I learned after I used this combination -- duh! -- that you can get "reading sunglasses" with a built in bifocal effect.
Yeah, it looks crazy.
Cool! I’ll have to look into those myself!
Weren't those invented by Ben Franklin?!
LOL! Next time someone comments on the position of my glasses, I'm sending them to this photo!
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