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Finding Our Happy Place

Finding Our Happy Place

Each of us needs to find our happy place, our "cocon", our 幸せな場所 (For Laura and Monte in memory of Dave, Music by Gregor ...

How I Paint in Gouache | Sunlit Woodshed

How I Paint in Gouache | Sunlit Woodshed

To put it simply: Simplify the palette of colors. Make light areas and dark areas darker. Let the viewer add the detail. If you've also ...

The Secret to Capturing Sunlight

The Secret to Capturing Sunlight

Three Colors (Plus White) is all you need: Hansa (Primary) Yellow (Holbein) Transparent Red Oxide (M. Graham) Dioxazine ...

1985 Audio Letter / Art Talk / HURRICANE GLORIA / Small Town Life

1985 Audio Letter / Art Talk / HURRICANE GLORIA / Small Town Life

James and Jeanette Gurney kept in touch with their faraway artist-friends by recording long-form audio cassettes and mailing ...

Sketching Gang Members from the 17th Street Locos

Sketching Gang Members from the 17th Street Locos

In Santa Monica I met a couple of home boys named Micho and Froggie. asked them to pose for a portrait. Luckiy I recorded their ...

Sketching Sam's Weird Laboratory

Sketching Sam's Weird Laboratory

Deep in the forest of Islesford, Maine, I paint a unique structure that Sam built to house his collection of morphing baby dolls, dusty ...

Hotspot Priming in Casein

Hotspot Priming in Casein

I sometimes prepare my sketchbook pages with an abstract priming layer. Here's what one of those priming steps looks like.

Painting a 'Glitter Path' | Basic Gouache Techniques for Capturing a Bar of Light

Painting a 'Glitter Path' | Basic Gouache Techniques for Capturing a Bar of Light

Hi, Folks. New video! This one covers: 1. Pathways of light reflected on water, 2. Hotspot priming 3. Contre-jour lighting. 4.

Zoom Sketch

Zoom Sketch

James Gurney sketches an impromptu portrait of B. Eric Rhoads, founder of Plein Air Magazine. Check out the interview: ...

Life Lessons from Dinosaurs  |  Book Trailer

Life Lessons from Dinosaurs | Book Trailer

Book trailer for my new book "Life Lessons from Dinosaurs" Signed copies from my store: ...

Paint a Car in a Film-Noir Style

Paint a Car in a Film-Noir Style

Painting a grisaille streetscape in casein, changing day to night. My Substack page: https://jamesgurney.substack.com/ Post about ...

Hand-Drawn QR Code

Hand-Drawn QR Code

My new book, signed: https://tinyurl.com/yhw6r64c My other books: Color and Light: https://tinyurl.com/yppd6xju Dinotopia: ...

Painting Calm Water from a Chaotic Roadside

Painting Calm Water from a Chaotic Roadside

Links to resources: BOOKS: Life Lessons from Dinosaurs: https://jamesgurney.com/products/life-lessons-from-dinosaurs-preorder ...

Painting Daisies by NOT Painting Daisies | Art, Botany, and Zen

Painting Daisies by NOT Painting Daisies | Art, Botany, and Zen

James Gurney creates a watercolor study of daisies by painting around the white shapes. We learn about the technique of ...

Gumball Machines in a Laundromat = ART?

Gumball Machines in a Laundromat = ART?

James Gurney sets up his plein-air easel between the garbage can and the change machine. CASEIN PAINT Titanium white: ...

Painting a Parking Lot , Trash and Weeds

Painting a Parking Lot , Trash and Weeds

I paint some trash thrown in the weeds alongside a stretch of asphalt. More about painting "non-motifs" at my Substack: ...

I Paint an Old Van While I Talk About the Online Art Businesss

I Paint an Old Van While I Talk About the Online Art Businesss

Plein-air painter James Gurney demos how he sketches a defunct Kurbmaster delivery van. Meanwhile he talks about how visual ...

How I Paint Roadside Weeds

How I Paint Roadside Weeds

Here's a practical method for isolating a living plant so that you can paint an accurate portrait of it on location. LINKS: Substack: ...

What's Coming

What's Coming

My Substack page is at: https://open.substack.com/pub/jamesgurney Gouache in the Wild video: ...

SuperZoom

SuperZoom

"Enhance 224 to 176." Move in....Stop." This is how they found out Carlson was drinking on the job in Solar Corp's Quad 28.

Super Mario In Pasadena

Super Mario In Pasadena

James Gurney leads a group of 12 top concept artists and plein-air painters to imagine a gigantic character in Pasadena, ...

See Into My Brain As I Paint a Flower

See Into My Brain As I Paint a Flower

James Gurney paints a dahlia at Stonecrop Gardens. Gurney shares his insights on switching between different modes of seeing ...

Why Casein Paint? Lots of Advantages Over Oils for Plein Air

Why Casein Paint? Lots of Advantages Over Oils for Plein Air

James Gurney uses casein paint for a plein-air study of the conservatory at Stonecrop Gardens. As he demonstrates his drawing ...

Spinosaurus at Water's Edge | Behind the Art

Spinosaurus at Water's Edge | Behind the Art

James Gurney demonstrates the step-by-step process of painting two restorations of the dinosaur Spinosaurus under the direction ...

PHOTO vs PAINTING | How They're Different and Why It Matters to Artists

PHOTO vs PAINTING | How They're Different and Why It Matters to Artists

James Gurney paints Trinity Church in Newport, Rhode Island, and considers how the human eye interprets reality differently than ...

How to Simplify a Complex Subject

How to Simplify a Complex Subject

James Gurney paints a blacksmith at his forge and answers questions about strategies for dealing with complexity and detail.

Wienermobile: Sketching The Hot Dog on Wheels

Wienermobile: Sketching The Hot Dog on Wheels

Painting the 1952 Wienermobile on location at the Henry Ford Museum using gouache on my homemade sketch easel.

Golden Hour Streetscape Painted in Gouache

Golden Hour Streetscape Painted in Gouache

Sometimes my painting departs from what I'm actually seeing. This time I swap the gray sky for a golden color, and the plein-air ...

Paint First, Then Draw — Quirky Gouache Technique

Paint First, Then Draw — Quirky Gouache Technique

James Gurney reverses the normal procedure in this plein-air painting of a dairy barn. Instead of painting over a careful ...

How to Paint Light and Shadow

How to Paint Light and Shadow

I use gouache to paint a hayfield sprinkled with March snow. To capture the feeling of light, I start by defining the shadows. LEARN ...

Pen Over Watercolor | A Strategy for Sketching for Complex Subjects

Pen Over Watercolor | A Strategy for Sketching for Complex Subjects

Artist James Gurney combines watercolor and pen for a super-detailed sketch of a friend's woodpile. He draws the lines last with a ...

BATTLE...or MEDITATION? | My State of Mind While Painting

BATTLE...or MEDITATION? | My State of Mind While Painting

Artist James Gurney uses gouache to paint a stream cutting through a snow-filled forest landscape. As he paints, he considers the ...

Andy Warhol and the Gatekeepers

Andy Warhol and the Gatekeepers

James Warhola tells the story of his uncle Andy's early painting "Nosepicker I": what inspired it, how it was rejected by a show's ...

Turning Day into Night with Gouache

Turning Day into Night with Gouache

In this video I paint a café in Ireland, changing the overcast lighting of day into a night scene with warm glowing lights from inside.

Combining Drawing and Painting

Combining Drawing and Painting

By combining watercolor, gouache, pencil, and fountain pen, you can get effects that you can't get with any of those materials ...

Sketching a Street in Ireland

Sketching a Street in Ireland

I paint the view looking down Wellington Street, Dun Laogharie, Ireland, using a combination of pencil, fountain pen, watercolor, ...

Sketching Chicken People

Sketching Chicken People

James Gurney takes his sketchbook to the county fair in search of the elusive chicken people. The Dutchess County Fair will be on ...

Should I Burn This Painting? | BIGGEST YouTube Art Collab (S2E5)

Should I Burn This Painting? | BIGGEST YouTube Art Collab (S2E5)

PLUS: James Gurney tries DALL•E 2 This painting is a collab challenge between a crazy gang of YouTube artists: Ten Hundred: ...

Painting This Botanical Study Nearly Broke My Brain

Painting This Botanical Study Nearly Broke My Brain

I show how I paint a hosta plant at the New York Botanical Garden. Topic covered: 1. Setting up the sketch easel, 2. Preliminary ...

Paint Opaquely Over a Red Priming

Paint Opaquely Over a Red Priming

Red is the opposite of green, painting a scene with a lot of green, you can paint over a reddish or pinkish priming. The little bits of ...

Realistic Urban Sketching in Gouache

Realistic Urban Sketching in Gouache

Here's a quick video where I paint some ordinary commercial shopfronts on an overcast day using gouache. To achieve realism ...

Painting Peonies with Watercolor at NYBG

Painting Peonies with Watercolor at NYBG

James Gurney paints tree peonies at the New York Botanical Garden. WATERCOLOR Titanium white: https://amzn.to/2XSOld4 ...

Painting Skunk Cabbage in Gouache

Painting Skunk Cabbage in Gouache

James Gurney visits a mosquito-infested swamp to paint skunk cabbage. He first primes the watercolor paper with an abstract ...

Painting a Dramatic Townscape in Watercolor

Painting a Dramatic Townscape in Watercolor

James Gurney paints a row of townhouses in Hudson, New York, emphasizing contrasts between light vs. dark, warm vs. cool, wet ...

I Paint the View from My Breakfast Window

I Paint the View from My Breakfast Window

Put on your headphones for an immersive audio experience with an #ASMR vibe. I paint a winter scene outside my window as my ...

What Did the Future Look Like When This Biplane Was New?

What Did the Future Look Like When This Biplane Was New?

James Gurney sketches a 1929 New Standard biplane at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome using casein paint, with the help of a ...

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