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Wednesday, March 25, 2020
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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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March
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- Painting the Hudson River Railroad
- 'Nuns Fret Not'
- Canyon Home
- Portraits of Gladstone
- 'Telephones Bring Cheer and Encouragement'
- Chalk Talk #1: State Mottos and Bubble Lettering
- Hideaway in Dinotopia
- RIP Albert Uderzo (1927-2020)
- Meltzoff Paints Avati and Family Sharing the Studio
- Healing a Baby Dinosaur
- How will these times affect your art?
- 'What we need is here'
- The Mad Maestro
- Looking for a project?
- What about Greens?
- Church's Palm Trees
- Portrait Sketch of Dan
- Can You Use Gouache for Finished Illustrations?
- Setting up a Sketch Easel
- Questions about Gouache Painting Outdoors
- Making Revisions in Gouache
- Lightbox Expo in September
- Cantastoria
- Giuseppe Marastoni
- Imitation vs. Representation
- The White Rabbits
- Why Choose a Pencil instead of a Paintbrush?
- Leonardo's Drawings: Materials and Methods
- Easels in the Sacristy
- Why use mixed media?
- Smithsonian releases almost 3 million images.
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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.
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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.
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8 comments:
My first thought seeing this piece. It's such a technically superb work. Well done, James.
Experts recommend social distancing to mitigate the spread of Coronavirus. That's six feet between humans and 75 feet between Brontosauruses. ;)
Beautiful rendering of snow. Coincidentally I had just been searching snow paintings and of course you have covered it many times. Isn't it interesting how images can have new meanings depending on what our experience brings to it?
I would love to visit the dinosaurs after the quarantine is over.... :(
Puppets!
This is an especially masterful handling of light and atmosphere! And that's saying quite a bit considering your impressive body of work, James. Something about the light hitting the domes, in particular, evoked so many memories of the feeling of being warm and safe in the midst of a winter's snow. Thanks for sharing. It's just the sort of cozy feeling that we need to remind us that being indoors isn't the worst thing in the world.
After studying this I noticed that you even captured the light that was reflected back into the ridges to make the shadow lighter than the cast shadow. These are the ridges just to the right of the little outpost building on the left. Thanks for the escape.
What an awesome composition!
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