How plein-air artists cope with changing light. open.substack.com/pub/jamesgurne…

How I painted a dinosaur olympics scene. Full story free on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jamesgurne…

How do you choose which moment to illustrate? Discussion on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jamesgurne…

Williams College Chapel, pencil. You can make a daytime drawing look like night by suppressing detail and softening edges in the darker areas. More on on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/jamesgurne…

Are our thoughts limited by moving at the speed of speech? Well, on recordings, you can raise the playback speed. How many of you do that, and how fast?

New YouTube video about painting calm water from a chaotic roadside. youtu.be/IqiZBUCG1Ms?si…

Thoughts about succeeding as an artist-for-hire by one of the leading 20th century illustrators, Austin Briggs. open.substack.com/pub/jamesgurne…

I went to a talk by a Hudson River gentleman named Bronson Chanler. I would pause from sketching his profile to write what he said so that the reader could get a sense of the hair-raising story he was telling. Today on Substack: "Wallpaper Words" open.substack.com/pub/jamesgurne…

Artists' Lay Figures open.substack.com/pub/jamesgurne…

An amazing story ... A shark and woman communicating with each other. She was able to reach inside the sharks mouth pulling a hook out.

Frazetta Friday time! Frank Frazetta Sara Frazetta

Portrait painters before the era of photography traveled with miniature lay figures that they carried around in boxes, along with finely made tiny costumes. open.substack.com/pub/jamesgurne…

Here's part of an ad from the Famous Artist School for their correspondence course. The lobster shack with its seagulls and boats demonstrates a lot of depth and overlapping, skills that beginning artists often lack. But this simple step-by-step sequence makes it look attainable.

N.C. Wyeth said of Howard Pyle as a teacher: "He goaded his pupils with such exclamations as "Live in your picture! Throw your heart into the canvas and leap in it!" open.substack.com/pub/jamesgurne…

There have been a few academies that specialize in animal subjects. open.substack.com/pub/jamesgurne…

Julius Rolshoven (1858-1930), American painter trained in France and Germany open.substack.com/pub/jamesgurne…

I'm insane enough to draw a QR code by hand. jamesgurney.com/products/life-…

Concepts that are so fundamental & deeply ingrained that it's hard to see them—including Cartesian dualism, free will, individualism, and linear time. open.substack.com/pub/jamesgurne…