Further solo volumes include Dinotopia: First Flight ( 1999) and Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara ( 2007) the setting also became a Shared World franchise. A dedicated plein air painter and sketcher who believes in. Both this book and its sequel Dinotopia: The World Beneath ( 1995) won him Hugos for best original artwork. The Artist Behind Dinotopia: Seven Questions for James Gurney by Sansu the Cat Seven Questions Medium Write Sign up Sign In 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. James Gurney is an artist and illustrator best known for his famous Dinotopia adventure series. His popular Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time ( 1992) is an art book, with text also by Gurney, telling of a nineteenth-century Lost World on an Island where humans coexist with intelligent Dinosaurs. His influences are eclectic, but include Norman Rockwell (1894-1978). His style is one of the most painterly in sf since the retirement of John Schoenherr in a field that emphasizes surface slickness, Gurney's work is refreshing. James Gurney is an artist and author best known for his painting guide, Color and Light, and his illustrated series, Dinotopia. Gurney, who works in oils, primarily paints book covers he has also done historic and prehistoric paintings for National Geographic. Gurney made his sf debut with a cover for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1982, but his real baptism of fire that year was working as one of only two background painters on the animated Sword-and-Sorcery film Fire and Ice ( 1982). (1958- ) US illustrator, raised in California, who studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
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