Creator of Dinotopia and artist/author of Color and Light and Imaginative Realism.
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At the peak of their influence around 1970, illustrators charged huge fees and drove Ferraris. The right half of the chart tells a grim story, and that’s even before AI enters the room. Is the party completely over, or is there a tiny glimmer of hope? jamesgurney.substack.com/p/when-illus...
James Gurney Art
For every human on earth, there are about three chickens.
My kids and their friends posed for a lot of the kids in Dinotopia. More: jamesgurney.substack.com/p/q-and-a-su...
STUDIO UPDATE: I've been hand-designing and writing my next book, "Gouache in the Wild"....plus keeping my commitment to writing for International Artist Magazine and my Substack blog "Paint Here."
Like with the Dinotopia books, design comes before writing!
An experiment with writing (and speaking) backwards. jamesgurney.substack.com/p/backwards-...
Substack post: "Art schools in the age of AI."
Image: "Market Day" 1907 by Frank Calderon, who wrote a book and ran a school for painting animals. open.substack.com/pub/jamesgur...
This original oil, "Brachio Barn" from "Dinotopia: The World Beneath" is coming up for sale on Tuesday from @heritageauctions , link fineart.ha.com/itm/pulp-pul...
How George Catlin painted a chief of the Mandan tribe open.substack.com/pub/jamesgur...
Between 1900 and now, illustrators used a changing set of painting media. Oil dominated at first. Gouache and casein had their heyday mid-century. Acrylic gradually replaced casein. But by the year 2000 digital trounced them all. jamesgurney.substack.com/p/which-medi...
British painter Alfred Munnings (1878-1959) hung out with travelers for six weeks during hop-picking season and did some of his best plein-air paintings. open.substack.com/pub/jamesgur...
James Gurney Art
James Gurney Art
James Gurney Art
James Gurney Art
James Gurney Art
James Gurney Art
James Gurney Art
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James Gurney Art
Questions about separatism, pacifism, subcreation, retro-tech, and fantasy tropes
