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The Artist's Guide to Sketching
"This is the book that started it all" —Patrick O'Brien, MICA
James Gurney
This weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney is for illustrators, plein-air painters, sketchers, comic artists, animators, art students, and writers. You'll find practical studio tips, insights into the making of the Dinotopia books, and first-hand reports from art schools and museums.
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- Journey to Chandara (138)
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You can write me at:
James Gurney
PO Box 693
Rhinebeck, NY 12572
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gurneyjourney (at) gmail.com
Sorry, I can't give personal art advice or portfolio reviews. If you can, it's best to ask art questions in the blog comments.
James Gurney
PO Box 693
Rhinebeck, NY 12572
or by email:
gurneyjourney (at) gmail.com
Sorry, I can't give personal art advice or portfolio reviews. If you can, it's best to ask art questions in the blog comments.
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All images and text are copyright 2020 James Gurney and/or their respective owners. Dinotopia is a registered trademark of James Gurney. For use of text or images in traditional print media or for any commercial licensing rights, please email me for permission.
However, you can quote images or text without asking permission on your educational or non-commercial blog, website, or Facebook page as long as you give me credit and provide a link back. Students and teachers can also quote images or text for their non-commercial school activity. It's also OK to do an artistic copy of my paintings as a study exercise without asking permission.
However, you can quote images or text without asking permission on your educational or non-commercial blog, website, or Facebook page as long as you give me credit and provide a link back. Students and teachers can also quote images or text for their non-commercial school activity. It's also OK to do an artistic copy of my paintings as a study exercise without asking permission.
2 comments:
Hi, James - I had not checked out your blog for a long time and I can see that you have gone to a paid Substack subcription and I will probably sign up for a year. But I am just wondering if old posts from your blog will still be available on the blog site? (You probably won't remember but it was I who encouraged you to keep the monkey photo on the blog page years ago when you had changed it to a steampunk photo instead. I still LOVE the monkey, he always makes me laugh and we need some laughter now more than ever!) Anyway for those of us who missed your change to Substack please let me know if the old archive of blog posts is still accessible. I was just telling a small private online art group I meet with weekly on Zoom about your blog today and they did all know who you were and knew of Dinotopia. I will give the yearly substack a try because I really do like your articles even though I had not ch ecked it for a couple years. Love all you info and esp art history stuff. It all looks VERY interesting!!!
Hi Patricia. Yes, I've moved to Substack because it's a much livelier environment for writers. If you visit there, you'll see that the comments are at a much higher level than they are in on any other platform—similar to the way blogger was in about 2010. The good thing for visitors is that I'm offering all of my new posts for free with no paywalls (except for the substack archive, which is paywalled). That's thanks to the generous people who pay to subscribe so that everyone else can enjoy it too. In answer to your question. Yes, I will keep the content up here for free on Blogger as long as Google is willing to continue hosting it on a server.
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