I want to cry Your videos are so calming to me and for some reason, induce nostalgia within me too. Idk why I only started watching last year but the nostalgia is ever present
Your videos have motivated me to carry my sketchbook around and try doing Plein-air painting! For someone like me, who's scared of doing live painting and is intimidated easily by detailed scapes, your videos are extremely helpful in aiding me to let go of my "fear". Thankyou Mr. Gurney!!
This is painting is surrealism dude! FYI: National Geo. did a dinosaur edition a month ago. In my opinion, your dinos are 100 times more believable. Yours are more relatable, I feel their souls the same way I feel when I look at a painting an artist has done of their own dog or cat. I have worked for the Met and Audubon, both with way too many bosses to please. I learned so much, no regrets.
Some people just aren’t happy unless they try to ruin someone else’s day. 🙇🏽♀️ Glad James was able to finish this painting and video for us. Be well & stay safe everyone 😷
I'm a security guard and I know the last thing the guy wanted to do was respond to some rando's complaint about you. We mostly just want to sit around and not do our jobs. I bring my computer to work and paint in Photoshop, or draw in sketchbooks. My actual job is a necessary inconvenience for me in these pursuits lol.
@@ALDAL I get everything I need to get done in the first couple hours. Then I work on art and hope nothing else comes up. It's not bad but I don't want to be doing it forever, gotta get those art jobs!
James ......you can paint anything in this world....even maybe wind!....my God.... amazing how make very ordinary scenes extraordinary.....a true ARTIST 🙏🙏🙏🙏
You always find nice so compositions in the most humble of places. Inspiring how you find beauty in less scenic scenery! Will be a pleasure to watch the video :)
Perhaps the best little tutorial on multiple vanishing points I've ever seen. I really appreciate your ability to reduce complex issues down to simple basics.
I have always struggled with understanding vanishing points on slopes and ramps - and that quick trace REALLY helped me get my head around it. Thanks James!
Mr. Gurney, I recently purchased your book Color and Light from your website, and it put the biggest smile on my face for this entire week! Thank you so much for such a pleasant & joyful experience during these uncertain times. Best wishes, Martha :)
I don't know for sure and I'm making an assumption, but I think someone who was having a bad day and a bad attitude saw Mr. Gurney happily painting away on his beautiful painting and got envious and bitter of him and decided to "rain on his parade" a little bit. It's not a big deal though and Mr. Gurney is a very cool guy who doesn't let stuff upset him.
My bet is nobody complained, but the security guard was bored and wanted to flex. When you paint in public the wildest things are sometimes the humans.
IDK that kinda pissed me off. We human should interact and talk to each other but people always calling cops or guards for really miniscule problems or little annoyance.
You are like my grandpa so cool,full of information and knowledge... As they say a old person is the tree of knowledge which can give you so much knowledge based on their experience of life
You're an inspiration and a light of hope for me. Every post brightens my dreary days and usually gets me motivated to do something. I have purchased 10+ of your tutorials, h20, gouache, casein in the wild, how i paint dinosaurs, mammal that ate dinosaurs... and I'm looking forward to more :)
I've had this a few time too, people who are messed up over something in their life that they can;t control will often lash out at someone they can control.
I have the two recent colour and triad videos and they are great! Can't believe people complained they nearly hit you, either poor driving or lack of attention on their part.
* sees paint tubes float * lol! I wasn't expecting that. But it's little creative details like that on top the painting tutorials are why I subscribed to your channel. Love it.
Great stuff, nice to see some new videos. You have a point of view that makes the everyday interesting. Bought the Triads video, terrific, great studio exercises, really make you think. Definitely a great value! Malcolm
Hello James! as usual, another great illustration; I follow your examples for my painting outings. People are always weary...even when they know you are an artist!!! -- they just want to be part of the scene-- I love your work and your tips in your videos. ..You are a painter master !! I've met a young girl who painted a large aluminum cooking pot ( of all things !) and adorned the exterior with very complex and detail " mandala" designs and I think is an actual masterpiece that took a long time to achieve. She coated the aluminum pot with plain white latex house paint as a base color, and used a " Sharpie" marker to create all the intricate detail in black marker ink. Would you be so kind to suggest what kind of lacquer or material would be suited to " COAT" this work, to protect from the usual elements. This pot will be used; not for cooking, but as a garden pot for indoor use. Our risk is to loose the black detail work when and if the marker ink becomes mixed with the coating material. Sorry for extending this comment, but would be great and we will be grateful if you or anybody of the other coleagues could provide us with a suggestion. We' ve tested it with Future floor wax and other enamel coatings in spray; yet the marker ink runs an mixes with all of them destroying all the work.... Thanks much for any help and God bless...
Only you could make a wonderful painting in a parking garage. XD Great video as always. Bummer about the security card, but drivers who can't judge distances, or who think they're almost hitting somebody sitting behind a fence, shouldn't be on the road.
Hi James, in your book "Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter" there are a bunch of you in your studio, it would be nice if you showed the process of your beautiful paintings, creation of sketching, precision drawing with grid, etc. Color and Light is the best book in my life though.
Hi James, this new teaching technique (it’s been a while since I’ve watched one of your videos) with the tracing paper is fantastic! I’m confused about there being two vanishing points, and why the ramp had a different VP from the rest of the scene. I thought VP(s) only applied to the entire scene, not individual objects. I just worked it out on paper and I understand what you’re doing - just don’t quite understand why.
I've often wondered about painting in public places like that, just like sketching people in parks and on buses coffee shops, whatever. Seems weird and intrusive to me without permission. I'm not surprised a few people complained. Honestly from the angle you filmed, it looked like people wouldn't be able to see you until they were right upon you coming down the drive and even though you were out of the way it would seem like you were closer than you were and that they might have hit you because of the surprise factor. The painting itself was cool, but if you had let the guard know you were there ahead of time or asked what would be a good place you could set up, you would have made his life easier.
When you don't know Mr Gurney and complain bc That's the only thing you can do. Protect and serve what a joke. Anyway you truly inspire, thanks a Lot for such a wonderful work!
Best thing to do is play it cool. Ask the security guy if you can take his photo and maybe paint a quick painting of him and send it to him later. It will throw him for a loop and then he'll look at artists as really cool customers in any future scenarios. Big picture.
There always has to be one interfering, stuck up, ankle biter who has to try and spoil someone else's pleasure and enjoyment by sticking their nose in and trying to stop you painting ! You could have been 10 feet clear and they still would have complained - damn jobsworths !
They're probably angry people. What Mr. Gurney is smart, he just played it cool and didn't make a big deal about it. Guy's so good he could paint a masterpiece without even having to look anyway. As the cool kids would say, "it ain't no thang".
Dear Mindful Attraction, If you watch at least 30 seconds of the commercials, Mr. Gurney gets 50 cents every time we do that. As for me, I watch the commercials whenever possible for my favorite TH-cam channels.
@@monicaperez2843 Good idea. What I do is this, I play the video on my phone and then put it to the side to play all the ads, and then actually watch the video on my laptop and skip ads if I just gotsta get back to the show.
@@RobertF- Robert, thank you for the excellent idea - some of those ads are pretty long. Also, if I skip the first ad, I don't get the opportunity to see the second ad. Will try it out!
Sometimes I get ads that are full length movies!! I watched one few years back because it was a StarTrek movie I hadn't seen before. The the one the other day, although interesting, wasn't what I had time for
How many opportunities does a poor security guard of a parking garage get to strut his stuff? They drool watching movies with chase scenes in parking garages, dreaming of the day when it will happen in their garage. It was good of you to play along. I'll bet he told his wife about "the show-down" that night at dinner. Yes, I'm a life-long fan of Barney Fife.
Mr. Gurney, I'm a huge fan. Been a fan ever since I was a kid and Dinotopia casually came into my life and absolutely astounded me at the possibilities of art and creativity. I've followed your work for a long time, and I have read your blog many times. I remember one time you had a really cool beard. I also remember you saying that your wife didn't like it though, so you shaved it off. I'm just wondering if maybe it's time to bring it on back. I'm sure if you sat down with her and had a serious discussion about it and told her that the fans demand the cool beard back, she would possibly understand. Maybe she wouldn't, but maybe she would. Just tell her it's for the audience 😂. And you have to give the people what they want, haha #bringbackbeard Thumbs up if you agree people👍
Loved the floating tubes. Amazing that you could train them to do that on cue.
they have less pigment
I want to cry
Your videos are so calming to me and for some reason, induce nostalgia within me too. Idk why I only started watching last year but the nostalgia is ever present
This guy could paint a bucket full of muck and a mop, and it would come out beautiful. Truly, interpretation of light is everything.
Jobsworth security guard 🤦♀️ it’s really inspiring to see how to make the most mundane scenes interesting and effervescent. Great work! 👌
Your videos have motivated me to carry my sketchbook around and try doing Plein-air painting! For someone like me, who's scared of doing live painting and is intimidated easily by detailed scapes, your videos are extremely helpful in aiding me to let go of my "fear". Thankyou Mr. Gurney!!
This is painting is surrealism dude! FYI: National Geo. did a dinosaur edition a month ago. In my opinion, your dinos are 100 times more believable. Yours are more relatable, I feel their souls the same way I feel when I look at a painting an artist has done of their own dog or cat. I have worked for the Met and Audubon, both with way too many bosses to please. I learned so much, no regrets.
Some people just aren’t happy unless they try to ruin someone else’s day. 🙇🏽♀️ Glad James was able to finish this painting and video for us. Be well & stay safe everyone 😷
I just got your book Color and light yesterday and now I’m seeing warm and cold shadows everywhere I go, thanks !🤟🐼👍🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖
I have it too. Highly recommend it.
I've holden it for a week now ,very impressive
I'm a security guard and I know the last thing the guy wanted to do was respond to some rando's complaint about you. We mostly just want to sit around and not do our jobs. I bring my computer to work and paint in Photoshop, or draw in sketchbooks. My actual job is a necessary inconvenience for me in these pursuits lol.
wow, you do nothing all day and get paid?
I WANT THAT!
@@ALDAL I get everything I need to get done in the first couple hours. Then I work on art and hope nothing else comes up. It's not bad but I don't want to be doing it forever, gotta get those art jobs!
@@tb8865 Oh thank god I'm not the only one.
@@ALDAL paid, but not a lot
Dang, I want to be a security guard now hahaha
Very impressed how graciously Mr. Gurney handled the security guard!
James ......you can paint anything in this world....even maybe wind!....my God.... amazing how make very ordinary scenes extraordinary.....a true ARTIST 🙏🙏🙏🙏
You always find nice so compositions in the most humble of places. Inspiring how you find beauty in less scenic scenery! Will be a pleasure to watch the video :)
I absolutely adore your special effects, like the moving tubes or the triads tutorial cover suddenly getting detached :D
So creative and fun!!
Thanks! These were puppeteered from below, but they look like stop motion because of the flickering light.
@@JamesGurney you're into the steampunk style - love it
Original subject! Thank you.
Love your channel! You have an amazing eye for light!
Perhaps the best little tutorial on multiple vanishing points I've ever seen. I really appreciate your ability to reduce complex issues down to simple basics.
Amazing how you can turn ordinary subjects like this into interesting paintings.
I have always struggled with understanding vanishing points on slopes and ramps - and that quick trace REALLY helped me get my head around it. Thanks James!
Mr. Gurney, I recently purchased your book Color and Light from your website, and it put the biggest smile on my face for this entire week! Thank you so much for such a pleasant & joyful experience during these uncertain times. Best wishes, Martha :)
I just wanna say your end screens are on point tho
Always a pleasure to watch you working in a painting. Thanks for another great video.
The edits are always so creative lol I love them
especially the steampunky mechanics he uses :D
Can people just told you to move away a little bit directly instead calling guards?
I don't know for sure and I'm making an assumption, but I think someone who was having a bad day and a bad attitude saw Mr. Gurney happily painting away on his beautiful painting and got envious and bitter of him and decided to "rain on his parade" a little bit. It's not a big deal though and Mr. Gurney is a very cool guy who doesn't let stuff upset him.
My bet is nobody complained, but the security guard was bored and wanted to flex. When you paint in public the wildest things are sometimes the humans.
IDK that kinda pissed me off. We human should interact and talk to each other but people always calling cops or guards for really miniscule problems or little annoyance.
@@miyagi_draws 😂
Plus nobody "almost hit him"
You are like my grandpa so cool,full of information and knowledge...
As they say a old person is the tree of knowledge which can give you so much knowledge based on their experience of life
He isn't so old. But knowledgeable yes!
wow i love how you make such nice paintings out of places that seem mundane, i wonder how it was sitting in a garage for awhile lol
love your artistic expression
James you are a legend I love every single video you posted.
You're an inspiration and a light of hope for me. Every post brightens my dreary days and usually gets me motivated to do something. I have purchased 10+ of your tutorials, h20, gouache, casein in the wild, how i paint dinosaurs, mammal that ate dinosaurs... and I'm looking forward to more :)
Thanks for getting the videos, and I'm glad they're working for you.
awesome work
love these vids. makes me want to improve on my bg skills, even though its hard, ur confidence is infectious
wow! Wonderful lesson! Love plein air painting so much!
Thank you for the discussion and demo on perspective in this scene.
I love your videos James. Great explanations.
You are awesome artist! A master of our time!
Now I want to do this in the parking space near my workplace!
Thank you. You are an amazing teacher and artist.
Great work, Sir! Watching this as I take a break from academic work :) Hope you're all having a great day!
I've had this a few time too, people who are messed up over something in their life that they can;t control will often lash out at someone they can control.
I have the two recent colour and triad videos and they are great!
Can't believe people complained they nearly hit you, either poor driving or lack of attention on their part.
* sees paint tubes float * lol! I wasn't expecting that. But it's little creative details like that on top the painting tutorials are why I subscribed to your channel. Love it.
two vanishing points......that was interesting yeah, thanks @James
Nice one! now I got some ideas of how to improve my view of painting scenery
What an awesome painting!!! Thank u for sharing ur work with us xo
This gave me goosebumps
Great stuff, nice to see some new videos. You have a point of view that makes the everyday interesting. Bought the Triads video, terrific, great studio exercises, really make you think. Definitely a great value! Malcolm
love it!
Thanks James. I needed a video today. Cheers.
that prisma marker being alive since the berol owned the brand is the most surprising thing I have tombows that are dry after 2 years capped.
The moment I saw the painting I thought "that looks awfully familiar." Then I realized it was because it was the parking garage by Vassar hospital.
You're right. That's the place.
Incredible stuff Mr. Gurney. Your work is so inspiring!
would love to reach the same likeness of the way you paint! so amazing
i LOVE your channel
sometimes i unsubscribe
just so i can have the pleasure of subscribing again
Amazing as always
Credit to the video editing, accessories which are more and more creative and amusing.
Hello James! as usual, another great illustration; I follow your examples for my painting outings.
People are always weary...even when they know you are an artist!!!
-- they just want to be part of the scene--
I love your work and your tips in your videos. ..You are a painter master !!
I've met a young girl who painted a large aluminum cooking pot ( of all things !) and adorned the exterior with very complex and detail
" mandala" designs and I think is an actual masterpiece that took a long time to achieve.
She coated the aluminum pot with plain white latex house paint as a base color, and used a " Sharpie" marker to create all the intricate detail in black marker ink.
Would you be so kind to suggest what kind of lacquer or material would be suited to " COAT" this work, to protect from the usual elements.
This pot will be used; not for cooking, but as a garden pot for indoor use.
Our risk is to loose the black detail work when and if the marker ink becomes mixed with the coating material.
Sorry for extending this comment, but would be great and we will be grateful if you or anybody of the other coleagues could provide us with a suggestion.
We' ve tested it with Future floor wax and other enamel coatings in spray; yet the marker ink runs an mixes with all of them destroying all the work....
Thanks much for any help and God bless...
Great video as always. Of course I’m curious how you animated those paint tubes!!!
Karen's were out in force today.
Excellent work of art
Always enjoy watching your videos, after that I feel like painting!
Only you could make a wonderful painting in a parking garage. XD Great video as always. Bummer about the security card, but drivers who can't judge distances, or who think they're almost hitting somebody sitting behind a fence, shouldn't be on the road.
Love it
Hi James, in your book "Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter" there are a bunch of you in your studio, it would be nice if you showed the process of your beautiful paintings, creation of sketching, precision drawing with grid, etc. Color and Light is the best book in my life though.
great work as always mr gurney!
That was ridiculous trying to move you along like that. You were nowhere near any oncoming cars lol
I was thinking the same thing 🙄
Cool!
great video as always!
I am trying to learn perspective. This was very helpful thank you
So do those iron ingredients ever cause your paintings to oxidize over time?
This guy has some Wicked skills.. ✌️😎
Fantastic video
As always ... top draw..
Thanks for the tips sir! 🙏
Suas pinturas são maravilhosamente sinceras!
You are a genius, and tour videos are interesting
I'm just amazed - how do you find such points?! I would never have thought to draw the exit from the garage, but it turned out just fine with you!
James, you must have painted the security head on the corner.
Do you have real time versions of your paintings? I’m sure tons of people including me would love to see it!
Hi James, this new teaching technique (it’s been a while since I’ve watched one of your videos) with the tracing paper is fantastic! I’m confused about there being two vanishing points, and why the ramp had a different VP from the rest of the scene. I thought VP(s) only applied to the entire scene, not individual objects. I just worked it out on paper and I understand what you’re doing - just don’t quite understand why.
Excellent!!! Thanks a lot. Love your videos.
The guy, who called security, apparently disliked the video as well.
Great video , thanks!
Can your downloud video be save to a dvd from my laptop in case it crash or get thife.
man you're awesome
I've often wondered about painting in public places like that, just like sketching people in parks and on buses coffee shops, whatever. Seems weird and intrusive to me without permission. I'm not surprised a few people complained.
Honestly from the angle you filmed, it looked like people wouldn't be able to see you until they were right upon you coming down the drive and even though you were out of the way it would seem like you were closer than you were and that they might have hit you because of the surprise factor.
The painting itself was cool, but if you had let the guard know you were there ahead of time or asked what would be a good place you could set up, you would have made his life easier.
When you don't know Mr Gurney and complain bc That's the only thing you can do. Protect and serve what a joke. Anyway you truly inspire, thanks a Lot for such a wonderful work!
Is the guard's name Karen?
Dang the security guy didn't even want to see the painting :T
Coronavirus is still a concern. Also, it's probably safer if security doesn't approach people...
"Deep in the shadows of a parking garage". Yeah that's not an ominous start to a video...
class work sir
Must be a slow day on the security detail! :D How typical of a security guard to have this attitude... arrrgh
Best thing to do is play it cool. Ask the security guy if you can take his photo and maybe paint a quick painting of him and send it to him later. It will throw him for a loop and then he'll look at artists as really cool customers in any future scenarios. Big picture.
He probably is obligated to respond / check things out.
The people with the sad lives always want to pass on their bounty to everyone else. lol
P.S. The mundane really shines when you get ahold of it!
There always has to be one interfering, stuck up, ankle biter who has to try and spoil someone else's pleasure and enjoyment by sticking their nose in and trying to stop you painting ! You could have been 10 feet clear and they still would have complained - damn jobsworths !
They're probably angry people. What Mr. Gurney is smart, he just played it cool and didn't make a big deal about it. Guy's so good he could paint a masterpiece without even having to look anyway. As the cool kids would say, "it ain't no thang".
I was wondering if you ever got in trouble just by painting.
don't worry mr gurney. I'm not a freeloader. I bought your books and tutorial 😇😇
Dear Mindful Attraction,
If you watch at least 30 seconds of the commercials, Mr. Gurney gets 50 cents every time we do that. As for me, I watch the commercials whenever possible for my favorite TH-cam channels.
@@monicaperez2843 Good idea. What I do is this, I play the video on my phone and then put it to the side to play all the ads, and then actually watch the video on my laptop and skip ads if I just gotsta get back to the show.
@@RobertF-
Robert, thank you for the excellent idea - some of those ads are pretty long. Also, if I skip the first ad, I don't get the opportunity to see the second ad. Will try it out!
Sometimes I get ads that are full length movies!! I watched one few years back because it was a StarTrek movie I hadn't seen before. The the one the other day, although interesting, wasn't what I had time for
How many opportunities does a poor security guard of a parking garage get to strut his stuff? They drool watching movies with chase scenes in parking garages, dreaming of the day when it will happen in their garage. It was good of you to play along. I'll bet he told his wife about "the show-down" that night at dinner. Yes, I'm a life-long fan of Barney Fife.
Evidently the security guard has problems with his sight or he wouldn't have messed with the president of the DEPARTMENT OF ART
Can u pls create a channel where u do real time paintings pls it's will be helpful
I think him Gumroad tutorials are more in depth and longer.
👍👍👍👍
I hope the scope of those complainers widens
Mr. Gurney, I'm a huge fan. Been a fan ever since I was a kid and Dinotopia casually came into my life and absolutely astounded me at the possibilities of art and creativity. I've followed your work for a long time, and I have read your blog many times. I remember one time you had a really cool beard. I also remember you saying that your wife didn't like it though, so you shaved it off. I'm just wondering if maybe it's time to bring it on back. I'm sure if you sat down with her and had a serious discussion about it and told her that the fans demand the cool beard back, she would possibly understand. Maybe she wouldn't, but maybe she would. Just tell her it's for the audience 😂.
And you have to give the people what they want, haha
#bringbackbeard
Thumbs up if you agree people👍
It was me who ditched the beard because it was too itchy for me. Also made me look like a macaque.
@@JamesGurney Ah yes, I remember the macaque haha. This was years ago on your blog, lol. Looked cool, but it's up to you.