James Gurney
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Creator of Dinotopia and artist/author of Color and Light and Imaginative Realism.
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This painting of two Dinotopian companions has been made into a few memes. My favorite has one of them saying "That wasn't a microdose."
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Rose O'Neill (1874-1944) was an illustrator, cartoonist, and writer who created the cute-baby Kewpies, but she made drawings of powerful but sensuous monsters.
#monsters
#goldenageillustration
#roseoneill
#kewpies
#melbirnkrant
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The square marked “A” is painted with the identical color mixture as the square marked “B”. Both are a neutral gray. From my book Color and Light:
#mindblowing
#color
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Street painting in Hudson, NY.
#gouache
#urbansketchers
#usk
#pleinair
#limitedpalette
#pleinairpainting
#paintingfromlife
#streetscene
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The goal here is to simplify. I'm interested in the truck but not the setting. I ignore the fence in front of it. Extracting the truck and putting it against white lets me focus on the little reflectors, the graphics, and the wheels.
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Anders Zorn wasn't fazed by rain. He laid his watercolor painting on a box hedge in the garden when a thunderstorm came up. We all rushed out and it seemed to me ruined...'Now I can make a fine picture,' Zorn said. He fixed the dirty sky, but there were large spots of raindrops.
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Newly discovered deep in the southern oceans. the Antarctic Strawberry Feather Star, a large creature with 20 arms.
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By adding a bright red and a couple of dull yellows to black and white, you can paint with the appearance of full color.
YouTube video:
#zornpalette
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Eugen Ransonnet-Villez (1838-1926) painted underwater views from direct observation. From his special diving bell, he drew with a soft pencil on green-colored varnished paper. He later overpainted them with oil.
#pleinair
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Many of the illustrations by Luděk Marold (Czech 1865-1898) use black and white watercolor on a gray or tan board.
#watercolor
#watercolour
#gouache
#grisaille
#ludekmarold
#illustration
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Confrontation on the brink of Waterfall City as humans + dinosaurs protect Dinotopia from an attack of a giant robot.
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If you keep these 5 things in mind, you'll paint faster and your paintings will be nicer to look at.
More on my blog:
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To paint a polished, colored surface, like a car, you have to mentally combine the local color, the lighting, and the specular map.
Full vid "Gouache: Your Questions Answered" will premiere on YouTube on Wednesday at noon:
#gouache
#watercolor
#pleinair
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There are effects you can get with color woodcuts that you can't get with any other medium.
Oscar Droege (German 1898-1983) More:
#woodcut
#linocut
#reliefprinting
#colorwoodcut
#Farbholzschnitt
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Scraytonify asks: "Why do you choose to paint the scenes you do with telephone poles and wires and fire hydrants?"
I like the stuff we normally overlook. We tune them out of our ordinary habitual awareness, but we'll be nostalgic for them when they're gone.
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Dinotopians enjoy a mini parade to celebrate a new hatchling.
I did this little oil painting as a comp for a possible FAO Schwarz toy catalog cover, but never went beyond this stage.
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Combining watercolor and gouache to capture the smoky atmosphere of an Irish-American street festival.
#watercolor
#gouache
#pleinair
#usk
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In his book, Color in Sketching and Rendering, Arthur Guptill says this study of a white porcelain cup lit by direct light "presents an ideal transitional subject, as it combines curved and flat surfaces."
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Photos are a big help, but you can’t take them too literally. I wanted to paint a picture of a guy scrubbing the teeth of a Baryonyx. But all I had available for a model was myself in baggy pants, standing on the driveway with a push broom.
#dinotopia
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If you're seeing this post, it's not because I'm verified, because I never have been. Word is that unverified accounts will soon be downgraded by the algo. So if you want to see future posts, be sure to press "Follow" or check me out on that rebel site of the fossil proboscidean
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My sons Dan and Frank Gurney playing video games on Christmas Day.
Whatever holiday you celebrate, we send our best wishes to you.
#nintendo
#RocketLeague
#videogame
#sketch
#gouache
#portrait
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Hayao Miyazaki said: “I try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened and very different ideas and visions are liberated. With those I can start making a film.”
#anime
#film
#miyazaki
#animation
#anime
#hayaomiyazaki
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What if a monorail was the size of an ocean liner? Wraparound paperback cover for Mick Farren's 1987 novel "Citizen Phaid," oil on panel.
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#sciencefiction
#scifi
#monorail
#futuretech
#illustration
#imaginativerealism
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Artists have long resisted breaking the footline, or the bottom edge, of a composition. Even in this crowded outdoor market scene by Thomas Frederick Mason, the footline is uninterrupted.
#composition
#academicpainting
#design
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How to sleep in airports.
#urbansketchers
#sketchbook
#sketching
#usk
#urbansketch
#cartoon
#drawing
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Instructional videos by Thomas Blackshear demonstrate a variety of illustration techniques using pencil, gouache, acrylic, and oil.
#thomasblackshear
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Seven tips for painting landscapes in moonlight:
1. Use cool, grayish colors.
2. Reduce chroma.
3. Unify Shadows.
4. Make them nearly opaque.
5. But don't go too dark overall.
6. Use warm accent lights for contrast.
7. Trust your memory more than photos.
#paintingtips
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Syd Mead's picturemaking process involved pen, tracing paper, gouache, big flat brushes, airbrush, a bridge, French curves, and other methods. The gouache appears to be squeezed on a paper palette and put in cups for larger areas.
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A dinosaur dances out 'WELCOME' at the Footprint Amphitheater.
Oil on board, from Dinotopia; Journey to Chandara.
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Owner of this Mickey Mouse mask is toy collector Mel Birnkrant, who says: "It is made out of some kind of leather, origin unknown. I have to say that I am uncomfortable with the vibrations that it radiates."
#MickeyMouse
#mask
#halloween
#creepy
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I spend about 15 minutes premixing piles of the main colors of the scene. For each hue, there are about four or five separate steps of value. The painting takes about four hours. The real secret to painting fast in oil is premixing pools of color.
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By combining watercolor, gouache, pencil, and fountain pen, you can get a variety of effects quickly.
Excerpt from full YT vid:
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#pleinair
#pleinairpainting
#urbansketchers
#usk
#urbansketching
#sketchbook
#paintingtechnique
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Rudolf Koller (1828-1905) was a Swiss animal painter. His father was a butcher, brewer, and innkeeper, so he regularly saw wagon drivers and cattle dealers.
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VS ASKS: "How do you decide what to keep an what to keep and what to discard while painting?"
ANSWER: Just paint carefully the parts that interest you. Delete the rest or state it simply.
#arttips
#artinspiration
#howtopaint
Watch video:
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Herminie Waternau (1862-1913) painted detailed architectural scenes in Paris using a muted palette of watercolor & gouache. Found these in a huge trove of recently released images from Paris museums.
#parismusees
#gouache
#urbansketchers
#herminiewaternau
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Watercolor tips from Hayao Miyazaki. "My recommendation. Transparent watercolor is good."
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Painting a green frog from life. I'll need him to hold still over an hour. Will he do it? Watch the full video on YouTube:
#pleinairpainting
#gouachepainting
#watercolorpainting
#sketchbook
#artistjournals
#paintingfromlife
#landscapepaintingnow
#frogart
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I paint a Hudson River scene and guess who appears. Watch on YouTube:
#gouachepainting
#pleinairsurrealism
#fantasyinthewild
#supermario
#nintendocharacters
#pleinairpainting
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I made the teeth in college for a gorilla mask.
@amelihere
lined them inside with fabric so now I’m pandemic-ready.
#facemask
#pandemicstyle
#coronamemes
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Most of my Dinotopia paintings start out as pencil drawings on the surface of the illustration board, and I cover them up with oil paint.
From Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara, signed copies at the link:
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We often hear the advice: "Stop before you overwork it."
But in my experience more paintings fail from quitting too soon than from beating them to death.
Better advice, I think, is to try anything to make it better, even if you risk wrecking it.
YT vid:
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Advice to a young artist: "Work all for study, and none for either exhibition or commendation. As long as you fear criticism you will hedge while making experiments. So don't work for anything but your own progress." —Louis Agassiz Fuertes (Hard to do in age of social media.)
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A Kentrosaurus assists the bagel seller.
From Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara.
#dinosaur
#illustration
#dinotopia
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Syd Mead, the gouache painter and "visual futurist" who inspired Blade Runner has died at age 86.
#sydmead
#bladerunner
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Direct sunlight vs. indirect or overcast light. Direct light has clear separation of light and shadow and hard-edged cast shadows. Indirect has illuminated planes gradating to darker planes depending how much they face upward.
#lighting
#softlight
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When I need a model, I set up a mirror and some charcoal paper, and I draw.
With a wig and a costume, I can be anybody—in my imagination at least.
During a break I forget to take off the wig, much to the amusement of FedEx man, who chooses that moment to come by.
#dinotopia
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Painting a high-chroma still life outside with just three colors forces you to keep mixtures pure and brushes clean.
Watch the YT premiere today at noon PST / 3pm EST.
Download the 90 minute tutorial, new @ Gumroad:
#LBXONLINE2020
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What do you like most about painting with friends? Are there challenges for you when you sketch with others? Do you prefer painting alone?
#pleinair
#pleinairpainting
#urbansketchers
#urbansketching
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Arthur Guptill said, "A rich effect can be obtained with only a limited palette. A warm and cool combination affords the student the best approach to his color problems, especially as they relate to outdoor sketching."
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All these backgrounds are by Tom Kinkade. Painted using Cartoon Color cel vinyl, Winsor/Newton Series 7 brushes, and a Paasche airbrush.
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The term "gouache" comes from the Italian word "guazzo," which means puddle or watering place. Drink up my video "Gouache in the Wild."
#jamesgurney
#gouachepainting
#pleinairpainting
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The yawning maw of Nekron’s glacier kingdom, an establishing shot from the Bakshi / Frazetta’s animated film “Fire and Ice,” cel vinyl paint, 11x14”
@ralphbakshi
@frazettagirls
#fireandice
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Howard Pyle warned against thinking you can't do good work unless you're in the mood. "That is all nonsense," he said. "I frequently have to force myself to make a start in the morning; but after a short while I find I can work. Only hard and regular work will bring success."
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Henri Biva (1848-1929) was a French landscape painter devoted to extreme naturalism, reminiscent of Ivan Shishkin, Peder Mork Mønsted, and William Trost Richards.
#naturalism
#academicpainting
#painting
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An experiment in biomechanics spirals out of control, and the leviathan slips out to sea.
(Gouache, 9x12 inches)
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Alpine painter Edward Theodore Compton (1849-1921) was himself a skilled mountaineer, making over 300 significant climbs with 27 first ascents.
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Question: What inspires you to paint?
Answer: Dinosaurs and parking lots. One is beyond our imagination, the other is beneath our notice.
#pleinair
#painting
#urbansketchers
#dinosaurs
#sketching
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Q: What's your business advice for aspiring artists?
A: Diversify your sources of income and have a space where you can experiment with new ideas. Deliver on time, be nice to work with, and do good work. Be the best at what you do best. Full interview:
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"I use poster color. Because as we have to paint much, we can't use expensive paint." —Ghibli's Kazuo Oga.
#anime
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Photo taken inside an old French cello. Note the Latin calligraphy in the reinforcing strip down the center.
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Gray palette is good for lower-key paintings, using opaque paint. Excerpt from new YouTube video. Full vid:
#painting
#lighting
#pleinair
#pleinairpainting
#caseinpainting
#urbansketchers
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There's an untranslatable word in German— "Waldeinsamkeit"—for the mysterious, poetic feeling of being alone in the forest. Art: Ivan Shishkin. More:
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Gouache landscape in the Arroyo, gouache, 8.5 x 13.5 inches.
The dots are birds taking wing.
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Phthalo blue is the fentanyl of pigments. (But when you need a dose of it, there's no substitute.
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Erik Theodor Werenskiold (Norwegian 1855–1938) traveled to France. At first he was skeptical about Impressionism, "declaring that he had seen things that made him wonder whether he or the artist was suffering the effects of delirium." But he fell in love with outdoor painting.
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Here's an unpublished Dinotopia painting, a possible cover design for an FAO Schwarz catalog. We ended up going with another image for the final catalog. I can't help thinking how loud it would be for the girl with the red hair.
#dinotopia
#dinosaurs
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Why don't art schools have courses on Light? It's such a big subject, and to my knowledge there's no single course in any art school that exclusively explores the science of light and lighting choices. Photographers know this stuff, but painters generally don't.
#artschool
#light
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The Boon Sloth is an absent-minded Megatherium that visits on midwinter’s eve with gifts for all—if he can remember who gets which one.
From “Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara.”
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An unusual triad: Gamboge, Permanent Green, and Dioxazine Purple, plus white. My next instructional video will explore triads and how to experiment with them. This gouache painting will be one of the demos.
#gouache
#limitedpalette
#colortheory
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Eisaku Wada (Japanese, 1874-1959) painted a lot of plein air studies of Mount Fuji.
#mountfuji
#japaneseart
#pleinair
#pleinairpainting
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If you were thinking of getting Color and Light, I happened to notice that it’s at a really good price on Amazon right now. The price fluctuates on Amazon by some mysterious algorithm.
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Paintings of Spinosaurus feeding and fighting that I did at the request of paleontologist Paul Sereno to illustrate his recent discoveries and ideas.
6-minute video on YouTube:
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