Gurney Journey
Blog URL http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/
Located Rhinebeck, New York USA
Tags art, sketching, education, instruction, painting, technique, Hudson Valley, illustration, portraits
Art blog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney includes information about outdoor sketching, fantasy and science fiction illustration, and on-location reports about art schools and movie studios.
Latest Blog Posts
- Do Artists See Differently? on Nov 25, 2009 in Visual Perception
During the recent series of posts on eye tracking, several of you wondered if artists look at the world differently from the general population.According to a study conducted by Stine Vogt and Svein Magnussen in Norway, the answer appears to be yes.
- Across the Border on Nov 24, 2009 in Rabbit Trails Portraits
The border guard asked who we were, what we were doing, and what we brought back. We told him we were painters up to see an exhibition called "Garden of Enchantment," and all we bought were a couple of art books. He looked kind of disgusted with us,...
- Blog Nods on Nov 23, 2009
Thanks to Children's Atheneum for naming me Illustrator of the Week!I'm grateful also also to Blogs of Note (put together by the team at Blogger) for putting GurneyJourney in today's spotlight.
- Back to the U.S.A. Border on Nov 23, 2009 in Pencil Sketching
A long line of cars led up to the border crossing as we returned from Canada. It seemed they were stopping and searching everyone. Four guys in flak jackets searched a car in front of us, using mirrors on poles to look under the bumpers. They made th...
- Waterhouse Expedition: Impressions on Nov 22, 2009 in Academic Painters
We spent the whole day at the Montreal Museum of Art, which has a large retrospective of J.W. Waterhouse's historical and mythological paintings. Instead of trying to do a big biography or thorough analysis or anything, here are a few notes and rando...
- Eagle Owl in Slo Mo on Nov 22, 2009 in Animals
As artists in the modern era we're lucky to have the advantage of good photo reference, especially good slow motion video. This eagle owl flies toward a Photron SA2 camera at 1000fps in a 20 second clip that shows the heavy wing strokes, the steady g...
- Lines and Colors on Nov 21, 2009
Thanks to Charley Parker of the blog Lines and Colors for his thoughtful review of Imaginative Realism. Lines and Colors is an art blog that I check out every day, and it has led me to many discoveries that have changed my thinking about making pictu...
