Gurney Journey
Thursday, December 18, 2025

Figuring Out the Format of Dinotopia

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  I first mocked up Dinotopia as a “Grand Tour of a Lost World,” structured like a travel guide. I was inspired by the lavishly illustrated ...
Saturday, December 13, 2025

How I Learned to Fly

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I was obsessed with flying machines in my younger years.  Before I graduated high school I had built and flown: radio-controlled gliders, ho...
Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Wordsworth's Idea of Childhood

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Poets and philosophers have imagined childhood as an awakening from the sleep before life, or the sleep between lives. Companions, was aucti...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Painting the Pre-Electric Night

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  Before electricity, nighttime seemed a lot brighter. That’s because electric lights constrict our pupils, making the darkness darker. Read...
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Friday, September 26, 2025

Four Paintings to Be Auctioned on November 4

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  At the  November 4 Illustration Art Auction  at Heritage Auctions , four of my paintings will be offered for sale. The Tartarus Incident p...
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Living With Mammoths in Dinotopia

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The partnership with mammoths began modestly, with villagers gathering the tufts of wool that the gentle giants shed in spring.  Later, whe...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Marty Owings Reviews Books on Sketching

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Marty Owings: "If you read the book it will unlock many secrets to being a better sketcher."  Marty Owings on YouTube  Direct lin...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

First Contact with Mirrors

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Svetlana at fortune-telling by K.Bryullov, 1836 Mirrors have a powerful effect on people who have only seen their reflection in stll water....
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Advice I'd Give My 24-Year-Old Self

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  Jeanette and me, age 24 The part of my recent YouTube video that attracted the most interest was my answer to Andrew’s question about wha...
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Monday, August 11, 2025

What I Learned from Painting this Boat

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This blue boat catches my eye as I explore an island in Maine. It's beached at an odd angle above the high tide line. Not far away, a fl...
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