Alphonse Mucha's cover for Hearst's Magazine in 1922 showed his fair-haired son Jiří.
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Thursday, December 31, 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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- road tour (63)
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December
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- Happy New Year
- How Do I Find My Art Style?
- Creating the Spitting Image Characters
- Terence Cuneo Paints The Old West
- Dogs Have Heat Sensing Noses
- Do Birds Dream?
- Socially-Distanced Christmas
- Will Bailey's Sketch Easel Video
- "Weird Al's" Drawing of Patrice
- Why Do You Paint Telephone Poles?
- Bob Ross Welcomes Ben Stahl
- The Glowing Landscapes of Ludvig Munthe
- Generating a Flyover from a Single Image
- Peter Brown Paints a Street Scene
- Achenbach's Snowy Forest
- Valuable Surrealist Painting Recovered from German...
- The Supporting Players
- Hugh Thomson's Illustration
- Vladimir Makovsky's "Before Explaining"
- Gerome: Truth and the Well
- The Beholder's Share
- Three Stages of Vision
- Why Do You Work So Small?
- T. rex -- People's Choice?
- YInMn Blue
- Mothlike Aliens
- Knitting and Architecture
- How Do You Choose a Painting Subject?
- Gustavo Simoni
- Painting Raindrops on a Windshield
- First Paintings of Underwater Landscapes
- Color Accents
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PO Box 693
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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.
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.
5 comments:
A Happy New Year to you too!
Mr. Gurney.
Thanks for all the gifts you gave us this year.
A big hug in Smooth.
Happy New Year to you and the family.
Paulo - Rio
Happy New Year and thank you for everything you do!
Happy New Year James!
Thank you for everything!
I know I'm late to the conversation.Tge excellent Mucha exhibition at the Reading Museum in PA appears to have been extended to the 15th. Well worth the admission and travel. They do an excellent job showing the design elements if the planning stages which is immensely informative.
https://www.readingpublicmuseum.org/exhibit/mucha
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