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New Releases by James GurneyJames Gurney is the author of The Artist's Guide to Sketching (2025), Gouache in the Wild (2024), Life Lessons from Dinosaurs (2024), Kong long guo (2022), Think Like the 1% (2021).
The Artist's Guide to Sketching
release date: Feb 25, 2025
A bold new edition of the groundbreaking book by two of America''s most prominent visual artists, James Gurney (Dinotopia, Color and Light), and Thomas Kinkade, freshly updated with a new introduction, archival photographs, and illuminating text to guide a new generation of illustrators. Since its release in 1982, The Artist''s Guide to Sketching has become a classic art guide for students and laypeople around the world. The book includes instruction and artwork by James Gurney and Thomas Kinkade--two students who would go on to fame with Dinotopia (Gurney) and as the "Painter of Light" (Kinkade). This new edition restores the classic text with updated visuals and a special section chronicling the book''s origins and the friendship, drawing on archives from Gurney and the Kinkade family estate. Chapters and topics include: Chapter 1: THE EXPERIENCE OF SKETCHING (Coping with the Weather, Sketching at Night, Sitting or Standing?, Dealing with Curious Spectators, Being Inconspicuous, At Home Amid the Elements Chapter 2: MATERIALS (Sketchbooks, Pencils, Pens, Markers, Wash and Drybrush, Sketchboxes and Carrying Cases, Experiencing Your Materials) Chapter 3: ACHIEVING ACCURACY: (When to Use an Underdrawing, How Much Underdrawing is Necessary, Establishing the Large Shapes, Measuring Lengths, Measuring Slopes, Using Perspective Guidelines, Constructing with Geometric Forms, Completed Underdrawing, The Final Execution) Chapter 4: CAPTURING MOTION (Freezing Motion: A New Way of Drawing, Learning to Observe Motion, Training Your Memory, Getting It Down Fast, The Scribble Approach, The Gestural Approach, The Mannikin Approach, The Tonal Mass Approach, When Your Subject Moves Unexpectedly, Places to Go for Motion Sketching) Chapter 5: CREATING MOOD (Choosing a Subject, Noting Impressions, Composing with Thumbnails, Selectivity, Center of Interest, Dramatic Opposition, Delicacy, Mystery, Structure and Expression) Chapter 6: USING IMAGINATION (Dare to be Creative, Being Imaginative On-the-Spot, Exaggeration, Changing Context and Scale, Using Anthropomorphism, Additions and Combinations, Feeding the Imagination, Becoming More Imaginative) Chapter 7: STUDYING NATURE (Nature: Your Personal Drawing Workshop, The Experience of Nature Sketching, Plants, Animals, Sketching at the Zoo, Natural History Museum, Clouds, Rocks and Landforms, The Benefits of Studying Nature) Chapter 8: SKETCHING PEOPLE (Finding Raw Material, Exaggerating Character Traits, The Cartoon Approach, Portraying People in Their Environment, Two Characters, Group Composition, The On-The-Spot Portrait, Making People Sketches Come Alive, Family and Friends: Your Free Models) Chapter 9: EXPLORING THE MAN-MADE WORLD (Begin with the Commonplace, Sketching the Home, Indicating Building Exteriors, Signs and Letterforms, A New Look at Machines, Using Clutter, On-The-Spot Spot Research, Using Written Notes, Thinking As a Documentary Artist, The Joy of Exploration) Chapter 10: SKETCHING IN YOUR LIFE (Keeping Specialized Sketchbooks, Developing Sketches into Paintings, Sharing Sketches With Others, Sketching Alone or With Others)
release date: Oct 15, 2024
Life Lessons from Dinosaurs
release date: Sep 17, 2024
release date: Jan 01, 2022
release date: Jun 05, 2021
Plough Quarterly No. 25 - Solidarity
release date: Sep 08, 2020
Dinotopia: Journey To Chandara
release date: Jul 24, 2017
The Making of Consumer Culture in Modern Britain
release date: Jan 01, 2017
FAMILY RECORD OF THE DESCENDAN
release date: Aug 26, 2016
release date: Apr 23, 2014
Masters & Legends of Fantasy Art
release date: Jan 01, 2012
Dinotopia (Limited Edition)
release date: Dec 08, 2011
Exploring Change in Fields of Sports Medicine
release date: Jan 01, 2011
release date: Nov 30, 2010
The Stability an Control of Curved Liquid Jet Break-up
release date: Jan 01, 2010
release date: Oct 20, 2009
release date: Jan 01, 2006
release date: Jan 01, 1998
release date: Jan 01, 1993
release date: Jan 01, 1993
The Making of Co-operative Culture in England, 1870-1918
release date: Jan 01, 1989
The Effects of Ethanol on Thermoregulatory Mechanisms in Men Exercising in Two Different Environmental Temperatures
Family Record of the Descendants of Dr. Edward Taylor, to December 1953
The why and Wherefore of Bridge
Catalogue of the Choice Collection of Works of Art
Catalogue of the Choice Collection of Works of Art, Mostly of the XVth, XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Formed by ... the Late James Gurney ... which ... Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods ... March 8, 1898, and Four Following Days, Etc. [With Plates.] MS. Notes
Catalogue of the Choice Collection of Pictures by Old Masters of James Gurney ... Pictures from the Condover Hall Collection; Pictures the Property of Eudoxie, Countess of Lindsay ... and from ... Different Sources: which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods ... March 12, 1898, Etc. MS. Notes
A Sermon, Occasioned by the Death of Miss Lydia Perry, who Departed this Life 25th February, 1813. Ætat 21 Years
A Sermon, Delivered Wednesday, Sept. 1, 1802
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