Wednesday, May 27, 2020
The Preservation of Fire
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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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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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6 comments:
What a cool quote. Keeping the flame alive takes work but the is great and has power within it. A fun sketch to boot.
Great quote and painting ...Just lovely!
Awesome James! I am always impressed with your lettering. I have tried that in my sketchbook and regardless how wet thin paint mixture I just cant pull it off. Curious? Did you use the ash of the fire in the darker wash on the left that is under the quote?
GeraldS. I had only a couple tubes of gouache with me for that sketch, just red and yellow. The underpainting was an orange glowing center surrounded by a dark gray. The darker wash was was just umber and Payne's gray watercolor.
...and, no doubt, it was dark as pitch & you had to use your x-ray vision, or some crazy diy contraption you McGuyvered on the fly out of a few twigs, grasses & broken glass... (that's all in the way of expressing my inexpressible admiration...)
JustKat, thanks. Actually it was still afternoon light when I painted it and I imagined it much darker than it really was.
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