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Gurney Journey: December 2009
This daily weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney is for illustrators, plein-air painters, sketchers, comic artists, animators, art students, and writers....
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2009/12/sarah-bernhardts-leg.html?showComment=1261248652317
Gurney Journey: Sarah Bernhardt's Leg
Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) was a legendary French actress of the stage and screen, famously portrayed on posters by Alphonse Mucha. Accord...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-fleeting-fame-of-anton-von-werner.html
Gurney Journey: The Fleeting Fame of Anton von Werner
Anton von Werner directed the Prussian Academy of Art in Berlin from 1875 until his death in 1915. Self portrait of Anton von Werner (1...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2007/12/ted-youngkin-in-perspective.html?showComment=1429606373781
Gurney Journey: Ted Youngkin in Perspective
On the way up Highway 101 yesterday, we decided on a whim to try and visit Ted Youngkin, our favorite art teacher, who taught us everything ...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2012/12/image-parsing.html
Gurney Journey: Image Parsing
Thursday's post about the painting machine called Vangobot brought on a lively discussion about the similarities and differences between hum...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2012/03/tsa-area.html
Gurney Journey: TSA Area
If you're stuck in an airport for a while, and you have a sketchbook with you, a great place to sit is near the security screening area. Pe...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2016/08/art-behind-movie-logos.html?showComment=1472197111016
Gurney Journey: Art Behind the Movie Logos
Behind famous movie branding you'll find hard-working artists and models. Here is 28-year-old model Jenny Joseph resting after posing for t...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2019/08/learning-by-copying.html?showComment=1564943571419
Gurney Journey: Learning by Copying
In the booklet called The Prang Elementary Course In Art Instruction , examples are shown on the left side of the page that the student is...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2014/07/what-is-picturesque.html?showComment=1405436588027&m=0
Gurney Journey: What is 'Picturesque'?
For over three hundred years, people have tried to identify ideal landscapes in terms of paintings. A landscape would be called picture...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2017/01/second-chance-at-dean-cornwell-book.html?showComment=1485816049591&m=0
Gurney Journey: Second Chance at Dean Cornwell Book
A second printing of the popular book The Art of Dean Cornwell is in the works via Kickstarter . The first printing was limited to 1000 co...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/11/sketch-to-finish.html?showComment=1226111460000&m=0
Gurney Journey: Sketch to Finish
When Logsdail went from the smaller version (above) to the larger finished version (below), he added a dog and a kid to the lower left of th...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2020/04/gouache-portrait-using-zorn-palette.html?showComment=1588089465312&m=0
Gurney Journey: Gouache Portrait Using the Zorn Palette
Here's a sample of the new video "Color in Practice" ( Link to YouTube ) By adding a bright red and a couple of dull yellows to black and...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2017/01/my-friends-rescue-cat-ralphie-lost-eye.html?showComment=1483655381544&m=0
Gurney Journey: Boss Cat
My friend's rescue-cat Ralphie lost an eye and broke his jaw when he tangled with a car....but don't feel sorry for him. He's the toug...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2010/04/rockwell-center-essays.html
Gurney Journey: Rockwell Center Essays
The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies was recently created as an outreach of the Norman Rockwell Museum to lend scholarly insight ...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2014/07/what-is-picturesque.html?showComment=1405450856602&m=0
Gurney Journey: What is 'Picturesque'?
For over three hundred years, people have tried to identify ideal landscapes in terms of paintings. A landscape would be called picture...
gurney journeywhat ispicturesque
https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2017/03/gouache-tubes-or-pans.html?showComment=1613055364315
Gurney Journey: Gouache: Tubes or Pans?
Today let's take a look at some questions that blog readers often ask about gouache. Do you use gouache squeezed out of tubes, or drie...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2020/06/transforming-objects-into-creatures.html?m=0
Gurney Journey: Transforming Objects into Creatures
Sometimes the veggies in my still life start arguing with me. ( Link to YouTube ). How do you transform a household object or vehicle into...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2023/07/how-are-you-using-threads.html?showComment=1689602799680
Gurney Journey: How are you using Threads?
I have a question for visual artists experimenting with Threads : How is the vibe there different from Instagram and Twitter? Is your strat...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2012/08/artist-station-postcard.html?showComment=1345755992835
Gurney Journey: Artist Station Postcard
Whenever an artist designs a U. S. commemorative postage stamp, they have a unique opportunity to work with the U.S. Postal Service and th...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2009/11/dornes-pragmatic-idealism.html?showComment=1258551465283
Gurney Journey: Dorne's Pragmatic Idealism
Here's Al Dorne, one of the founders of the Famous Artists School, and the illustrator with the most resplendent eyebrows. His philosophy of...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-whiter-white-paint.html?showComment=1618773916659&m=0
Gurney Journey: A Whiter White Paint
Scientists at Purdue University have developed a white pigment that they say is significantly whiter than existing pigments. A surface looks...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/06/selectivity.html?showComment=1214233680000
Gurney Journey: Selectivity
In any given plein-air painting of a few hours, you can probably only capture one percent of the detail that meets your eyes. There have bee...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2023/03/bistable-percepts.html?m=0
Gurney Journey: Bistable Percepts
Most people are familiar with the face / vase illusion (below). Psychologists refer to it as a "bistable percept." A bistable percept is an...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2010/06/imc-day-1.html?showComment=1276453796100
Gurney Journey: IMC Day 1
Illustration Master Class began its first full day yesterday in Amherst, Massachusetts. Eighty-two students from as far away as Australia, E...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2010/07/realistic-dinosaur-suits.html?showComment=1279196847469
Gurney Journey: Realistic Dinosaur Suits
This daily weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney is for illustrators, plein-air painters, sketchers, comic artists, animators, art students, and writers....
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2012/02/suit-dynamics.html?m=1
Gurney Journey: Suit Dynamics
Men's suits get interesting when the pose moves out of neutral. I sketched the same speaker as he shifted back and forth between two poses d...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2020/10/hunters-and-gatherers.html
Gurney Journey: Hunters and Gatherers
The glare of the afternoon sun burns a vertical path through the parking lot, connecting the infinite with the ordinary. Shopping carts roll...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2020/02/casein-contest.html?showComment=1583453529707&m=0
Gurney Journey: Casein Contest
I don't usually promote art contests if they cost money to enter, but this one is different. Casein Painting by Stephen Quiller The Jac...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2014/03/kramskoy-paints-yaroshenko.html
Gurney Journey: Kramskoy paints Yaroshenko
Left: Nikolai Yaroshenko by Ivan Kramskoy. Right: Kramskoy by Yaroshenko After the last post about the watercolor portrait of Kramskoy ...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2019/08/announcing-windchaser-ebook.html?m=0
Gurney Journey: Announcing the Windchaser Ebook
One of the decisions an artist has to make when developing a fantasy universe is how much to license the images onto calendars and puzzles ...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/11/spectrum-annual-of-fantastic-art.html?showComment=1225924920000&m=0
Gurney Journey: Spectrum Annual of Fantastic Art
The 15th Spectrum Annual is now available in bookstores and online retailers. This collection of the imaginative artwork features artwork fr...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-ethics-of-sketching-on-subway.html?showComment=1406832741958&m=0
Gurney Journey: The ethics of sketching on the subway
Daumier, Riders on an Omnibus, 1864 Chuck Klosterman, ethicist for the New York Times, ponders whether it's OK to sketch strangers on ...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2012/05/spectrum-expedition.html?showComment=1337610744154
Gurney Journey: Spectrum Expedition
I just completed this little video about the long journey to attend Spectrum Fantastic Art Live , which ended yesterday. ( Video Link ) ...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2013/01/opera-sketch-report.html?showComment=1359305526468&m=0
Gurney Journey: Opera Sketch Report
Last night we attended the Metropolitan Opera's performance of Rossini's little-known comic opera Le Comte Ory. The seats were orchestra...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2022/05/drawing-daisies.html?m=0
Gurney Journey: Drawing Daisies
A daisy a not single flower. What appears to be a flower is actually two types of flowers: a yellow disk floret at the center composed of ma...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/08/drawing-made-easy.html?showComment=1219564740000
Gurney Journey: Drawing Made Easy
This book taught me how to draw. I relied on books because I never had a drawing teacher (except my older brother) until I was in my early 2...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2015/10/alleys-in-salida.html?showComment=1445785290921
Gurney Journey: Alleys in Salida
In Salida, Colorado, we wake up early and paint in the alleys. I use a limited palette of titanium white , yellow ochre , burnt sienna ...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2015/08/dancing-with-pig.html?m=0
Gurney Journey: Dancing with a Pig
This 1907 dance routine between a lady and a guy in a pig costume was probably based on a Vaudeville performance. They dance together for ...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2021/01/sargents-study-of-marlborough-family.html
Gurney Journey: Sargent's Study of the Marlborough Family
John Singer Sargent did a pencil study (right) of a group portrait of the Duke of Marlborough and his Family by Joshua Reynolds (left). Sar...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2013/03/documentary-on-sign-painters.html?showComment=1362926105892&m=0
Gurney Journey: Documentary on sign painters
SIGN PAINTERS (OFFICIAL TRAILER) from samuel j macon on Vimeo . ( Direct link to video ) Directors Faythe Levine and Sam Macon documente...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2014/01/my-eighth-grade-portrait-disaster.html?showComment=1391101166831&m=0
Gurney Journey: My Eighth Grade Portrait Disaster
My eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Kinear, asked me to come up to the front of the classroom. He turned me to face the class and put the ques...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2012/09/trost-richards-at-pafa.html
Gurney Journey: Trost Richards at PAFA
The exhibition "A Mine of Beauty: Landscapes of William Trost Richards" opens today at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts in Pennsylvania...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2017/01/oil-change-lets-paint.html?showComment=1483542842461&m=0
Gurney Journey: Oil change. Let's paint!
We're stuck for an hour and a half in the waiting room of the tire place while the car gets an oil change and a tire rotation. The icy rain ...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2010/05/introducing-color-and-light.html
Gurney Journey: Introducing Color and Light
On Thursday I traveled to New York City to visit the Book Expo, the annual convention where the publishing industry presents the fall book t...
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Gurney Journey: March 2019
This daily weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney is for illustrators, plein-air painters, sketchers, comic artists, animators, art students, and writers....
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2018/11/toulouse-minotaur.html
Gurney Journey: Toulouse Minotaur
The street theater company La Machine has introduced a giant spider and a minotaur in Toulouse, France. ( Link to YouTube video ) Acco...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2013/05/famous-artists-paint-samson-and-delilah.html?showComment=1369329498448
Gurney Journey: Famous artists paint Samson and Delilah
In 1949, ten members of the faculty of the Famous Artists School correspondence course were commissioned to paint their interpretation of S...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2017/04/drawing-animals-advice-from-1907.html?showComment=1491655252336&m=0
Gurney Journey: Drawing Animals: Advice from 1907
"The only materials needed for sketching from live animals in the field are two pencils, one soft and blunt, and one fairly hard and well ...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2020/09/favorite-books.html
Gurney Journey: Favorite Books
I wasn't a big fiction reader as a kid (I mostly looked at pictures and captions), but there were three books that totally lifted me out of ...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2014/04/dennis-nolan-and-hartford-art-school.html?showComment=1397805352138
Gurney Journey: Dennis Nolan and the Hartford Art School
Yesterday I visited the Hartford Art School in Connecticut, part of the University of Hartford , to give a lecture about picture making a...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2013/08/meissoniers-prep-work.html
Gurney Journey: Meissonier's prep work
Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891) did meticulous studies in preparation for his Napoleonic history paintings. Here is one of his o...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2013/05/manikin-in-snow.html
Gurney Journey: Manikin in the Snow
In the winter of 1892, two artistic comrades, John Singer Sargent and Edwin Austin Abbey , set up an artist's lay figure in the snow. They...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2013/04/rembrandts-night-watch-reenacted-by.html
Gurney Journey: Rembrandt's Night Watch reenacted by flash mob
( Direct link to video ) A Dutch bank sponsored this dramatic re-enactment of Rembrandt's painting "Night Watch" as a flash mob event in a ...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2018/07/cynthia-daignaults-road-trip.html?showComment=1531060060250
Gurney Journey: Cynthia Daignault's Road Trip
Cynthia Daignault was inspired by the rambling road trips of photographers such as William Eggleston and Robert Frank, and by writers suc...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2014/07/cartoons-about-modern-art.html
Gurney Journey: Cartoons about Modern Art
For more than a century, cartoonists have loved to take aim at modern art. This 1910 cartoon caricatures the paintings themselves. Aro...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2017/01/oil-change-lets-paint.html?showComment=1483873074406&m=0
Gurney Journey: Oil change. Let's paint!
We're stuck for an hour and a half in the waiting room of the tire place while the car gets an oil change and a tire rotation. The icy rain ...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2020/09/copies-of-heads-by-classic-illustrators.html
Gurney Journey: Copies of Heads by Classic Illustrators
Copying of heads in oil by Golden Age illustrators helped me understand all the technical decisions they made that led to each of their reco...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2010/03/world-beneath-slideshow.html?showComment=1268256613462
Gurney Journey: World Beneath Slideshow
Tom Lopez of ZBS Productions created a full-length audio adaptation of Dinotopia: The World Beneath using actors, sound effects, and musi...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2014/04/scene-in-airport.html?showComment=1396613341265&m=0
Gurney Journey: Scene in an airport
I didn't mean to be a busybody, but there was no way I could have avoided overhearing this guy's side of the conversation. He was shoutin...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2009/10/?m=0
Gurney Journey: October 2009
This daily weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney is for illustrators, plein-air painters, sketchers, comic artists, animators, art students, and writers....
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2015/08/hoffbauers-civil-war-mural-sketches.html?showComment=1439905794763
Gurney Journey: Hoffbauer's Civil War Mural Sketches
Charles Hoffbauer (1875-1957) painted a series of murals about the Civil War known as the Memorial Military Murals . They're in Richm...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2013/01/part-2-golden-mean-and-leonardo.html?showComment=1358523397675&m=0
Gurney Journey: Part 2: The Golden Mean and Leonardo
Yesterday I challenged the cherished notion that ancient architects used the golden mean as a design template for the Parthenon of Athens. (...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2009/05/dead-tech-zipatone.html?showComment=1243803657680&m=0
Gurney Journey: Dead Tech: Zipatone
Zipatone is an obsolete graphic design material that would let you place a halftone dot screen across an area of a black and white illustrat...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2012/07/measures-of-greatness.html?showComment=1343325562216
Gurney Journey: Measures of Greatness
According to an art history book published in 1904 * , Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891) would be remembered as the greatest painter of the nin...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2017/01/book-review-mad-art-of-caricature.html?showComment=1483374453791&m=0
Gurney Journey: Book Review: Mad Art of Caricature
The art of caricature may seem like something you either have a knack for, or you don't. But if you have a desire to learn, you can get go...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2014/04/focus-on-nature-xiii-exhibition.html?showComment=1397925189467
Gurney Journey: Focus on Nature XIII Exhibition
Yesterday we attended the preview opening of Focus on Nature XIII , the exhibition of natural science artwork at the New York State Museum ...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2010/06/s.html?showComment=1276788538421
Gurney Journey: Studies of Nymphs
British painter of myth and romance, John William Waterhouse, (1849-1917) did these lovely studies from the model as reference for his pain...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2019/07/do-sheep-recognize-faces.html?m=0
Gurney Journey: Do Sheep Recognize Faces?
Rosa Bonheur -- Sheep studies in oil Scientists studying the brains of sheep are learning a lot about their abilities at face recognit...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2020/05/heiligenschein.html?showComment=1590694056020
Gurney Journey: Heiligenschein
Heiligenschein , is an optical effect where a bright spot appears to surround the cast shadow of the head of the observer. The glowing sp...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2007/08/dibbles-quarry.html
Gurney Journey: Dibble's Quarry
I find inspiration for future Dinotopia books in the most unlikely places. The bluestone quarries above Platte Clove were once the source fo...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2009/06/style.html?showComment=1244411694823
Gurney Journey: Style
Thanks for all the fascinating and helpful comments in yesterday's post about the subject of teachers drawing on top of student work. To fo...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2009/10/maiacetus-part-2.html
Gurney Journey: Maiacetus, Part 2
To imagine the four-legged whale Maiacetus, I made a quick maquette out of Fimo, keeping it in scale to printouts of the skeleton drawings....
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2013/10/painting-husky.html?m=1
Gurney Journey: Painting a Husky
We're hanging out with a family of glassblowers in the high country of Colorado. They own a husky named Dea who has a sleeping mat near th...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2012/02/kids-and-art.html?m=1
Gurney Journey: Kids and Art
A lot of school groups and families have been visiting the Dinotopia exhibition at the Woodson Art Museum in Wisconsin, as reported by Rob ...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2021/08/paper-playset-concept.html
Gurney Journey: Paper Playset Concept
Concept sketches for a paper playset of Dinotopia, drawn in pen and marker.
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/02/tomorrow-strange-tree.html?showComment=1203389700000
Gurney Journey: Strange Tree
On a hike deep in the forest I found this strange tree and sketched it as I saw it. I have a theory about how it came to be. Maybe you do to...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2007/12/water-reflections-part-1.html?showComment=1198846200000&m=0
Gurney Journey: Water Reflections, Part 1
When a scene is reflected in water, it appears almost like an inverted mirror image. Almost . But the reflection is different in a few im...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2010/07/realistic-dinosaur-suits.html?showComment=1279240737692
Gurney Journey: Realistic Dinosaur Suits
This daily weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney is for illustrators, plein-air painters, sketchers, comic artists, animators, art students, and writers....
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2018/06/harlan-ellison-1934-2018.html?showComment=1530839869903
Gurney Journey: Harlan Ellison (1934-2018)
I mark the passing of science fiction writer Harlan Ellison (1934-2018) with this wraparound paperback cover that art I did for his novel...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2012/10/part-1-pteranodons.html?showComment=1349362573094
Gurney Journey: Part 1: Pteranodons / Thumbnails
Earlier this year, the National Wildlife Federation asked me to do a couple of paintings of Pteranodons for their magazine, Ranger Rick. Th...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2016/05/new-puppet-design-with-incredibly-fluid.html?showComment=1467758333343&m=0
Gurney Journey: New puppet design with incredibly fluid movement
( Link to Video ) Barnaby Dixon has come up with a clever new way of articulating a puppet. Not only can the little fellow dance with hi...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/01/disappearing-snow.html
Gurney Journey: Disappearing Snow
With the thermometer over 50 degrees and the snow rapidly melting, Jeanette and I headed over to the nearby town of Rhinecliff today to pain...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2009/01/rearranging-art-books.html?showComment=1231332600000
Gurney Journey: Rearranging Art Books
Today I rearranged the art books in my home library. Before this, I had the monographs segregated in separate sections, the way they do in b...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2014/12/dinotopia-podcast-episode-8.html?showComment=1419345324250
Gurney Journey: Dinotopia Podcast Episode 7
Today we released Episode Seven of the serialized podcast of Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time, but the audio is no longer available, sorry...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/05/paint-brand-poll-results.html?showComment=1211741040000
Gurney Journey: Paint Brand Poll Results
Thanks to all 146 of you who joined the oil paint brand poll. Here are the results. The first number is the number of you who said you use t...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2016/01/non-finito.html?showComment=1453324219618
Gurney Journey: Non Finito
Artists have left works unfinished inadvertently because time, the weather, or death called them away. Such partially completed works often ...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2012/03/war-jitters.html?showComment=1331042303966
Gurney Journey: War Jitters
I sketched a man sitting alone in the diner yesterday. He noticed me drawing him and I invited him to join us at our booth. As he watched m...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2011/03/who-u-gonna-call.html
Gurney Journey: Who U Gonna Call?
Ghostbusters meets evangelism in this van parked along a road in Milford, Pennsylvania. I wonder what he keeps in there.
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2017/05/new-book-on-bernie-fuchs.html?showComment=1494103353977&m=0
Gurney Journey: New Book on Bernie Fuchs
Bernie Fuchs was a living legend when I entered the illustration world in the late 1970s, best known for the golden, glowing effect of h...
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Gurney Journey: My Eighth Grade Portrait Disaster
My eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Kinear, asked me to come up to the front of the classroom. He turned me to face the class and put the ques...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2018/02/painting-across-edges.html
Gurney Journey: Painting Across Edges
Alexandre asks: "I heard you mention several times in Gouache in the Wild (including the painting of the liquor store sign) this idea of ...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2012/04/voice-of-teacher.html
Gurney Journey: Voice of the Teacher
Last Saturday I had the privilege of painting alongside the artist and teacher Max Ginsburg (b. 1931) He drove up with several of his stu...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2014/02/flip-book-animation-in-paperback.html?showComment=1393539409096
Gurney Journey: Flip book animation in a paperback
Some of you know that my career began in the animation business, and that I have dabbled in animation alongside painting and writing. Whe...
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Gurney Journey: Dead Tech: Zipatone
Zipatone is an obsolete graphic design material that would let you place a halftone dot screen across an area of a black and white illustrat...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/01/fan-fun.html
Gurney Journey: Fan Fun
Dinotopia fans have sent me amazing things. Here, for example, is Magnolia, one of the Habitat Partners from Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Ti...
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Gurney Journey: Stimmung
Jakub Schikaneder was a Czech artist known for creating an atmosphere of melancholy. In his paintings a figure is often seen walking alone i...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2016/07/how-movement-aids-face-recognition.html
Gurney Journey: How Movement Aids Face Recognition
Every face you're familiar with, whether friend or celebrity, has a distinctive shape and proportion. But familiar faces also have a set of ...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2021/12/first-snow-by-various-painters.html
Gurney Journey: First Snow by Various Painters
We had a light snowfall last night, and it reminded me of a few paintings of first snow. The first snow has fallen. Germashev, Mikhail Mark...
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Gurney Journey: Lady Gaga, steampunk vampires, and fair weather painters
Last week, National Public Radio reported that the FBI has been reassessing its investigative methods after failing to anticipate the unres...
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https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2013/10/gouache-in-grinnell-iowa.html?m=1
Gurney Journey: Gouache in Grinnell, Iowa
Jeanette and I continued our epic drive west yesterday, cruising along old US Highway 6 from Illinois across Iowa. Our goal: to deliver Trus...
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