A motor grader from the 1970s, sketched on the job site in gouache.
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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- The Real Face Behind the Legend
- Models and Costumes for Dinosaur Boulevard
- How Oberhardt Achieved a Speaking Likeness
- Motor Grader
- Is Opera Rose Fugitive?
- Painting Peonies at NYBG
- The Kitchen by Carl Larsson
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- An Artist in His Studio
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- Wind in Stone
- Pre-Priming with a Color Blur
- Painting in the Swamp
- Drawing Daisies
- Leyendecker's "First Long Suit"
- Taking the Right Advice
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- Trove of Wyeth Paintings to Enter Museum Collections
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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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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:
Two color palette? The limited palette gives it a much older look.
I love this piece but when I first saw it posted on Twitter I thought a different artist had done it.
Subject matter-wise it definitely looks like one of yours. Your ability to take the familiar and elevate it is remarkable.
But style-wise it looks different from your more recent pieces/approaches. It looks like it was done in 1980 so I guess 42 years of artistic evolution can account for the differences. I lack the eye and the vocabulary to articulate exactly what looks different to me, but I do wonder, do you see it too? Do you look back on older works with a critical eye, or are you sympathetic or nostalgic for your younger self?
Either way, thanks for sharing it, lovely piece =)
I love this piece but when I first saw it posted on Twitter I thought a different artist had done it.
Subject matter-wise it definitely looks like one of yours. Your ability to take the familiar and elevate it is remarkable.
But style-wise it looks different from your more recent pieces/approaches. It looks like it was done in 1980 so I guess 42 years of artistic evolution can account for the differences. I lack the eye and the vocabulary to articulate exactly what looks different to me, but I do wonder, do you see it too? Do you look back on older works with a critical eye, or are you sympathetic or nostalgic for your younger self?
Either way, thanks for sharing it, lovely piece =)
The optimism of the vehicle going uphill. The super-detailed look that becomes so beautifully painterly as soon as I looked at it more closely. The color palette.
Beautiful.
I love the forthrightness of this!
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