This weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney is for illustrators, plein-air painters, sketchers, comic artists, animators, art students, and writers. You’ll find practical studio tips, insights into the making of the Dinotopia books, and first-hand reports from art schools and museums. Contact You can write me at:James GurneyPO Box 693Rhinebeck, […]

  Throughout the ages, artists have been known to be solitary creatures. They spend hours upon hours, year after year, creating works of imagination, whether through painting, drawing, sculpting, or some other medium of expression. For most of us, we love learning when it comes to our medium of expression, […]

How to Start Marketing Your Art if You Don’t Yet Have Fans or Collectors   We were hosting a FASO Members Only Live Art Marketing Webinar recently, and we spent quite a bit of time discussing reaching out to people on your mailing list, romancing people who have bought from […]

Adding sixteen new murals to Downtown Cincinnati, BLINK, the nation’s largest light and art festival, took place last month for the first time since 2019. The cleverly captivating artwork featured above was painted by Atlanta-based Greg Mike. Several more murals — all captured by by travel and street photographer Karin du […]

Diana Rodrigues’s art embodies abstract elegance in every sense of the phrase. We’ve recently had the privilege of conversing with her about her creative journey and how she perceives the world through her creations. Let go of all your preconceived notions and dive into Diana’s awesome creative pursuits with us. […]

In 1859,  American artist Frederic Church (1826-1900) commissioned a schooner to take him on a plein-air painting expedition to “Iceberg Alley,” a dangerous region surrounding Newfoundland and Labrador.  Church produced an impressive set of oil studies from observation to provide the raw material for his big studio painting of The […]