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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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- Teaching Art, Pre- and Post-Pandemic
- Limited Palettes and Constrained Writing
- Unfinished Portrait of Roosevelt
- Hopper's Light: Evocative or Illogical?
- Zinn's Chalk Paintings on Sidewalks
- Transforming Objects into Creatures
- Customers First
- Henry Wheeler's Barn
- Seascape Sketchbook of William Trost Richards
- New App Adds Detail to Blurry Image
- How do you mix a color you're looking at?
- Frederick Walker's 'Old Farm Garden.'
- Aphantasia
- John Sharman's "At the End of the Porch"
- Compared to Hummingbirds, We're Colorblind
- Painting a Spotlight Effect
- 'We want no imitation'
- Drawing of English Inn
- Art and Ideology
- A Sci-Fi Cover with Classic Vibes
- Mildred Butler
- Godfrey Vigne: Saved by a Sketchbook
- Bonington's Tiny Watercolor
- Cleaning Out Gouache Brushes
- Olana Eye Shows Famous View
- Complementary Color Scheme
- Where can you learn how to do botanical art from l...
- Fishermen
- Art and Van's Illustration Techniques
- Bearded Vulture
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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.
6 comments:
Thank YOU James! So many of my students and myself have benefited greatly from your books. It has brought another layer of joy to our painting practices. Love the video :)
I have 2 iPad Sketch Books: "JG" and "Metro North". Have you released any more? Gary
Gary, we've just done two Living Sketchbooks: Boyhood Home and Metro North.
I bought the 1946/1947 book about Norman Rockwell that you mentioned in a previous blog, then watched your video "Painting Dinosaurs" and your video about the Australian dinosaur stamps. I appreciate your willingness to share the painting process you have developed over the years.
You create maquettes, and seem to draw them same-size. Is your goal to produce art work at a pre-determined percentage larger than the print version of the pictures?
Also, in the video about painting dinosaurs, you spray the approved drawing (on illustration board) with a workable fixative, then paint it with acrylic matte medium. Why is it necessary to use both?
Thanks, CatBlogger. I usually do my paintings about 30% bigger than printed size, but sometimes much larger. The maquette size doesn't really matter. Whatever size is convenient to build. Workable fixative just secures the pencil drawing enough before using the acrylic medium. Without it, the liquid medium could smudge soft pencil.
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