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...
How George Catlin painted a chief of the Mandan tribe open.substack.com/pub/jamesgur...
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!
For every human on earth, there are about three chickens.
James Gurney Art
James Gurney Art
James Gurney Art
James Gurney Art
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...
My kids and their friends posed for a lot of the kids in Dinotopia. More: jamesgurney.substack.com/p/q-and-a-su...
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...
An experiment with writing (and speaking) backwards. jamesgurney.substack.com/p/backwards-...
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...
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Questions about separatism, pacifism, subcreation, retro-tech, and fantasy tropes
