The legend himself! I grew up reading his Dinotopia books (more like obsessing over the art...) He was a huge reason I first picked up a brush. I always love listening to James' insights on painting. He is a treasure trove of knowledge and experience. Just watch, listen, and be transported to another world.
Wow! What a wonderful interview what a gracious and talanted man. I loved how he was interested in you and asked you questions about you, that is what I call an actual conversation. I love forward to there podcasts every Sunday morning while I drink my coffee. Thank you so much Lindsay for doing these.
Such an enjoyable podcast! He is amazing and a great storyteller. What an interesting path he has taken. Thanks Lindsay for providing these podcasts. I know why you were so excited to interview him and you asked great questions.
Lindsay, I am a Crafter, not an artist. That is, I can add flowers to a bird house-and build the birdhouse. I can bead embroider, but I need to trace the pattern. One of the things I’ve admired so much about you is that you love to learn new things. And you have a deep commitment to “rising tides lift all boats!” Thank you for these interviews!
Well done Lindsay! Great interview! James Gurney is an icon and such a generous online mentor to thousands. Can't wait for "Gouache in the Wild" His "Color and Light" is one of my favorite art reference books.
What a GREAT interview... Hearing him talk took me right back to the days of paste-up ads! I used to run a typesetting machine and use rubber cement and waxers for laying out ads back in the 70s/80s. We had a hand-crank camera in a dark room for shooting stats for ads and used markers mainly for marker-rendered layouts (who would want ARTWORK made out of markers at that time?! lol!) BOY, have we come a long way!! Life changed dramatically when our ad agency brought in a "Macintosh Plus" in 1987... ANYWAY, what a journey he's been on, and his resources for sharing so many tips, theories, and stories is fantastic. ...and that he can stay so caught up with the progress of the time is admirable! Watching his videos and reading his books has been such a huge encouragement to me to knock the rust off and try new mediums, as well as finding inspiration for painting nearly anywhere!
@@Tyggzz I just got rid of my pica rulers and my last sheets of rubylith about 2 years ago-more items most likely archaic to younger artists these days! But boy, we had to be creative with what we had, didn’t we? Today it’s almost overwhelming all that is available to us (materials AND information), but such a wide world of opportunities! I have also found that many of James’s books he references are old school classics, and I’ve been slowly collecting what I can find.
@@thefrugalcrafter That’s SO encouraging, especially for someone my age! Thank you as well for a great series of questions-I’ve really enjoyed your interviews overall. You can tell you’ve had training in broadcasting! Although your “fan-girling” was initially obvious (and rightly so! Who wouldn’t be? 😉), you were cool as a cucumber and really brought joy to the session. Well done!
;I love James Gurney! He has a wonderfully unique painting style. I also love his subject choices for plein aire. Thanks for having him on your podcast!
James Gurney has done so much for the artistic community. I love the videos of his rambles in the woods with his dog, then capturing the essence of the location in the medium of choice. I credit him for the revival of gouache and water-based media in general. He’s a great teacher, inventor and artist. Excellent interview, Lindsay!
Thank you! So inspired by you both! Love James Gurney's work! So interesting to hear how James Gurney films and edits his videos! I also can't talk and demo at the same time yet. Nice to hear even a master has difficulty with it! Working on it! Love the idea of sculpting to study the lighting etc!
Great interview. Loved the give and take you both shared with each other. Very informative and educational. Please keep up with such wonderful podcasts. Thank you both.
I want you both to know how much I have been encouraged and nourished by your art and your willingness to invite people into an imaginative, expansive, and generous relationship with the world. Thank you so much.
Lindsay I really enjoyed your pod cast with James Gurney. What a lovely man. It was interesting to hear stories about his background and early life adventures. You could tell he put you at ease, I think that’s one of the many things that makes his videos so enjoyable. Hope to see another pod cast with him. I bet after it was over you thought of fifty more questions you would have liked to ask. Nice job and fan girl didn’t even stutter :)
James Gurney, wow, he is a bona fide star artist! Great interview-enjoyed hearing JG relate his early origin story and adventures with Tom Kincaid. I went to art school briefly before becoming a professional anthropologist so was interested to hear that he had been an Anthropology major and took the opposite path.
Great interview. I loved all of the different ideas this interview inspires. I never thought about building a physical thing to use as a ‘prop’ to visualize lighting. Such great ideas. What an interesting man. I am now following him and look forward to hearing more from him as well. It’s nice to hear from two people that speak to me and can inspire me to try new things. I am reengaging on my art journey at 53 and am enjoying it. Thank you!
Great interview. My husband worked for the post office for over 25 years and I've collected stamps for over twice that so it was very exciting to hear about those dinosaur stamps. Thanks so much for sharing the insights with different artists. They're all interesting and inspiring.
What a fascinating interview! Loved hearing about James Gurney but also that he got you to open up about things you hadn’t talked about before. Truly enjoyable way to spend time. I have loved all the “podcasts”, each guest has taught me things and enriched my life in some way. You are doing a tremendous job with these and I thank you. Please keep them coming.
Launch in and fix it. Wow, I related to this artist in so many ways. I love his work ethic as I have always loved yours Lindsay. Thank you so much the two of you. I love talking and listening to such art wisdom. I will definitely check out all your work, etc. James. So much appreciate your dedication and hard work. I started watching Lindsay in 2015 and picked up a paintbrush 6 months later. She’s a wonderful teacher. I have a lot to learn still as I love art; design, color, and all things beautiful. I also love paper crafting, and now gotten to love many crafts. I love to explore and learn and come up with different products, and now I say, ok, that’s all, do what I love and no more, I will make this product and this, etc. but NO MORE!! My first love is watercolor for sure and sometimes I think oh how I wish I had more time to just do that!! All the best to you both! ❤
This was such an interesting interview and so conversational. I felt like this was the best one yet. As a newbie I wasn’t familiar with James Gurney’s work, but I realized I have the set of dinosaur stamps that he created in my lock box! For a while I bought interesting commemorative stamp sheets to pass on one day. I have to now follow his work to get to know more. Thanks, Lindsay for a great interview.
This was such a lovely art chat video to listen to today. James seems like a really nice down to earth guy. My nephews would love his dino books, I will have to look them up! Thanks so much (my fave so far). 😁
What a great interview Lindsay, and thanks for sharing so much of your experience and research,James!!! I just signed up for your Substack and was thrilled to hear of your research into how our eye travels across a painting! So enlightening! There is so much to learn, that’s why I love art!
Ok after a moment of "oh my goodness oh my goodness!" I can finally leave a proper comment. The first art I knew from James Gurney was the Dinotopia books, which I bought for my middle daughter (she's still very much into dinosaurs and works in art). For me, because I have visual dyslexia, letters move all over the place but for a fraction of a second they stay still, so to read I have to read incredibly fast before everything jumbles, I never get time to slow down and appreciate the story. When I found art that was full of detail and colour I was able to relax and read the story in one picture for a long time, working my way around the art, finding little details and characters that I didn't see initially. It's so wonderful and Dinotopia was the first time I'd seen something like that from a current artist, rather than oil paintings from hundreds of years ago. I can't express how much I love and appreciate his art!
I love your interview style and the ease at how your put your guest. I have watched James for many years and have even tried to make the his travel easel, I was not as successful as I would have liked! I suppose that is the perfectionist in me and my preference for ceramic palettes for mixing! I have since used the enamel trays made of tin and they do not break when dropped! I like how they stick in place when using magnets too! Perhaps I need to try making it again? Well thanks again for an amazing interview and spectacular Podcast Lindsay. Thanks to James for being interviewed and you both are so appreciated and revered by all of us out here in the ether. Please have a lovely day!
I initially didn’t think I knew who James Gurney was or was familiar with his art. Ha! I was surprised to realize I own two of his books. I have been an admirer of his work since forever. Somehow I haden’t made the connection… I can be a little slow sometimes. 😄 Anyway, great interview! I enjoyed it immensely… I think I’ll listen to it again. Thank you. 😊
Had to pause at 30mins. I’m loving this podcast. AI - what annoys me most is people post things and do not declare it’s all AI. IM talking crafters doing journal pages and it has been generated by AI. They should declare it like I say what tools I used, watercolour, stencils, stamps etc.
Casien paint has a very short shelf life and spoils quickly. Must be stored under limited temperature conditions (refer to manufacturer's guidelines). Spoiled paint is very stinky (literally spoiled milk). But, it is a lovely paint medium to work with, it remains workable like gauche and watercolor after it dries. Theatrical scene painters have used it for ages and some paint shops still use it. It can even be washed off muslin (provided it's prepped correctly and the pigment or dye isn't a highly staining variety). For preserving a piece for hanging, I would recommend investigating varnishes or sealant that are friendly to the paint. I've never sealed it because I never used it for permanent work.
That is very interesting. I've seen James's video on using casein as an underpainting. I actually bought some casein when I found it on sale, but I haven't been able to use it... my skill level just isn't up there yet.
James gurney is living legend...however to be honest i never felt got real knowledge of art from him...i feel im in presence of excellent artist but never got the essence of him. Its me ...not him...i tried understanding him several times...read his books...but realised over the time...i cant assimilate such vast knowledge with my small brain
@thefrugalcrafter Oh, No, Thank You!!! I've only made it halfway through, and I feel so much smarter and so much taller from having listened to this conversation that I can hardly breathe. I actually feel taller... wow. I'll get back to it tonight. I had to run some errands and do some chores, and I have my TV busy watching the poor Xoonani arts channel. She's so sweet and so talented, and RUclips has her so buried that her Channel won't come up even if I type the exact name in! SMH. It was her birthday last week, and she needs love.
The legend himself! I grew up reading his Dinotopia books (more like obsessing over the art...) He was a huge reason I first picked up a brush. I always love listening to James' insights on painting. He is a treasure trove of knowledge and experience. Just watch, listen, and be transported to another world.
That's awesome!
Wow! What a wonderful interview what a gracious and talanted man. I loved how he was interested in you and asked you questions about you, that is what I call an actual conversation. I love forward to there podcasts every Sunday morning while I drink my coffee. Thank you so much Lindsay for doing these.
Glad you enjoyed it!
What an interesting person! His quest for knowledge and learning is so very obvious. Great interview Lindsay and deeply satisfying!
Such an enjoyable podcast! He is amazing and a great storyteller. What an interesting path he has taken. Thanks Lindsay for providing these podcasts. I know why you were so excited to interview him and you asked great questions.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Lindsay, I am a Crafter, not an artist. That is, I can add flowers to a bird house-and build the birdhouse. I can bead embroider, but I need to trace the pattern. One of the things I’ve admired so much about you is that you love to learn new things. And you have a deep commitment to “rising tides lift all boats!” Thank you for these interviews!
Such an interesting conversation! Well done!
You're welcome 😊
The way I gasped when I saw the thumbnail. Happy to see Mr. James Gurney on your podcast!
Thanks 😊
❤❤❤Thank you so much for this wonderful interview with James Gurney! What an awesome life story!
You're welcome 😊
Well done Lindsay! Great interview! James Gurney is an icon and such a generous online mentor to thousands. Can't wait for "Gouache in the Wild" His "Color and Light" is one of my favorite art reference books.
Mine too!
It's James Gurney 😊 ok now James take Lindsay plein air 😊
Thanks Lindsay! Such an inspiring and interesting podcast with James Gurney!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic Lindsay! Thanks for pulling this interview together. Such a great range of topics.
Glad you enjoyed it!
What a GREAT interview... Hearing him talk took me right back to the days of paste-up ads! I used to run a typesetting machine and use rubber cement and waxers for laying out ads back in the 70s/80s. We had a hand-crank camera in a dark room for shooting stats for ads and used markers mainly for marker-rendered layouts (who would want ARTWORK made out of markers at that time?! lol!) BOY, have we come a long way!! Life changed dramatically when our ad agency brought in a "Macintosh Plus" in 1987... ANYWAY, what a journey he's been on, and his resources for sharing so many tips, theories, and stories is fantastic. ...and that he can stay so caught up with the progress of the time is admirable! Watching his videos and reading his books has been such a huge encouragement to me to knock the rust off and try new mediums, as well as finding inspiration for painting nearly anywhere!
Yes, he is not daunted buy any new technology, he embraces it!
@@Tyggzz I just got rid of my pica rulers and my last sheets of rubylith about 2 years ago-more items most likely archaic to younger artists these days! But boy, we had to be creative with what we had, didn’t we? Today it’s almost overwhelming all that is available to us (materials AND information), but such a wide world of opportunities! I have also found that many of James’s books he references are old school classics, and I’ve been slowly collecting what I can find.
@@thefrugalcrafter That’s SO encouraging, especially for someone my age! Thank you as well for a great series of questions-I’ve really enjoyed your interviews overall. You can tell you’ve had training in broadcasting! Although your “fan-girling” was initially obvious (and rightly so! Who wouldn’t be? 😉), you were cool as a cucumber and really brought joy to the session. Well done!
Such a fantastic episode ☺☺
;I love James Gurney! He has a wonderfully unique painting style. I also love his subject choices for plein aire. Thanks for having him on your podcast!
My pleasure!
Love Mr. Gurney!
What a joy to listen and watch this podcast. I love James gurneys work and he is so interesting! thanks Lindsay!
Glad you enjoyed it!
James Gurney has done so much for the artistic community. I love the videos of his rambles in the woods with his dog, then capturing the essence of the location in the medium of choice. I credit him for the revival of gouache and water-based media in general. He’s a great teacher, inventor and artist. Excellent interview, Lindsay!
Thanks 😊
so totalyy interesting and enjoyable. Gurney is a treasure for sure. Thank you for your fine interviews.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was great. I was so happy to hear the great questions you asked Lindsay and the responses from James. Outstanding.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Yes, asking the right questions is important and this was a fantastic interview. 👍
These interviews are so great. All my favorite RUclipsrs talking together. Thanks so much!
Glad you like them!
Thx Lindsay and James! So great! 🖌🎨
Thank you! So inspired by you both! Love James Gurney's work! So interesting to hear how James Gurney films and edits his videos! I also can't talk and demo at the same time yet. Nice to hear even a master has difficulty with it! Working on it! Love the idea of sculpting to study the lighting etc!
Our pleasure!
Wonderful interview Lindsay! Thanks to both of you for having this conversation.
Our pleasure!
Thank you both for sharing your stories and ideas on art. Lovely to spend some time together!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Two of my very favorite artists ❤
They just keep getting better… Thank you both!
Great interview. Loved the give and take you both shared with each other. Very informative and educational. Please keep up with such wonderful podcasts. Thank you both.
Thank you! Will do!
This was a great interview! Thanks Lindsay and James for having a chat and letting us listen in!
Our pleasure!
I want you both to know how much I have been encouraged and nourished by your art and your willingness to invite people into an imaginative, expansive, and generous relationship with the world. Thank you so much.
Wow, thank you!
Well said... I feel the same way. Both of their channels have helped me immensely in very different ways.💘
Beautifully stated, and I feel the same.
Loved this interview! Thank you, Lindsay! And thank you, James!
That was fabulous! Thank you both so much for the stories, the wisdom, and the humor. Wow!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love love loved this podcast! What a genuine gentleman with that underlying larrikin! I did laugh so hard with the Rabbit story!
Lindsay I really enjoyed your pod cast with James Gurney. What a lovely man. It was interesting to hear stories about his background and early life adventures. You could tell he put you at ease, I think that’s one of the many things that makes his videos so enjoyable.
Hope to see another pod cast with him. I bet after it was over you thought of fifty more questions you would have liked to ask. Nice job and fan girl didn’t even stutter :)
Thanks so much! Omg yes! I didn't even get through am the questions I planned to ask but I love how freely the conversation flowed:)
Two of my favorite artists to learn from in the same video, I’m so excited! ❤
So glad!
James Gurney, wow, he is a bona fide star artist! Great interview-enjoyed hearing JG relate his early origin story and adventures with Tom Kincaid. I went to art school briefly before becoming a professional anthropologist so was interested to hear that he had been an Anthropology major and took the opposite path.
He sure is!
Loved this interview. What a talented and creative man.
You did a great job in covering his work with a natural curiosity!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I enjoyed this interview soooo much! I enjoy everything you post, seriously! Your podcasts are my favorite podcasts- I look forward to them!
Yay! Thank you!
Another great interview. Really enjoyed. 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi, James and Lindsay. Thank you for your video.❤.
Thanks for watching!
Great interview. I loved all of the different ideas this interview inspires. I never thought about building a physical thing to use as a ‘prop’ to visualize lighting. Such great ideas. What an interesting man. I am now following him and look forward to hearing more from him as well. It’s nice to hear from two people that speak to me and can inspire me to try new things. I am reengaging on my art journey at 53 and am enjoying it. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great interview. My husband worked for the post office for over 25 years and I've collected stamps for over twice that so it was very exciting to hear about those dinosaur stamps. Thanks so much for sharing the insights with different artists. They're all interesting and inspiring.
That is awesome!
Wonderful !!!!! I learned so much listening to his background. I knew bits and pieces but this was great.
Glad you enjoyed it!
What a fascinating interview! Loved hearing about James Gurney but also that he got you to open up about things you hadn’t talked about before. Truly enjoyable way to spend time. I have loved all the “podcasts”, each guest has taught me things and enriched my life in some way. You are doing a tremendous job with these and I thank you. Please keep them coming.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for this. As expected, it was wonderful.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Whooohooo!!! What an AWESOME interview!! James is SOOO talented and inspiring and interesting! Thanks Lindsay!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
So interesting. Loved him in the ten hundred calab
Tell me more about that!
great video lindsay! James is a great artists!
That was a wonderful treat! Thank you James and Lindsay!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Launch in and fix it. Wow, I related to this artist in so many ways. I love his work ethic as I have always loved yours Lindsay. Thank you so much the two of you. I love talking and listening to such art wisdom. I will definitely check out all your work, etc. James. So much appreciate your dedication and hard work. I started watching Lindsay in 2015 and picked up a paintbrush 6 months later. She’s a wonderful teacher. I have a lot to learn still as I love art; design, color, and all things beautiful. I also love paper crafting, and now gotten to love many crafts. I love to explore and learn and come up with different products, and now I say, ok, that’s all, do what I love and no more, I will make this product and this, etc. but NO MORE!! My first love is watercolor for sure and sometimes I think oh how I wish I had more time to just do that!! All the best to you both! ❤
Thank you!
That was a great interview! So glad you did this one!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was such an interesting interview and so conversational. I felt like this was the best one yet. As a newbie I wasn’t familiar with James Gurney’s work, but I realized I have the set of dinosaur stamps that he created in my lock box! For a while I bought interesting commemorative stamp sheets to pass on one day. I have to now follow his work to get to know more. Thanks, Lindsay for a great interview.
Cool!
Way to go Lindsay...another terrific artist podcast interview....keep 'em coming!!!😊
Thank you! Will do!
This was such a lovely art chat video to listen to today. James seems like a really nice down to earth guy. My nephews would love his dino books, I will have to look them up! Thanks so much (my fave so far). 😁
Glad you enjoyed it
You are one well learned lady. Great interview by the Barbara Walter’s of the Art World ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
What a great interview Lindsay, and thanks for sharing so much of your experience and research,James!!! I just signed up for your Substack and was thrilled to hear of your research into how our eye travels across a painting! So enlightening! There is so much to learn, that’s why I love art!
Awesome! Thank you!
That was lovely - thanks for sharing 😊
My pleasure 😊
Ok after a moment of "oh my goodness oh my goodness!" I can finally leave a proper comment. The first art I knew from James Gurney was the Dinotopia books, which I bought for my middle daughter (she's still very much into dinosaurs and works in art).
For me, because I have visual dyslexia, letters move all over the place but for a fraction of a second they stay still, so to read I have to read incredibly fast before everything jumbles, I never get time to slow down and appreciate the story. When I found art that was full of detail and colour I was able to relax and read the story in one picture for a long time, working my way around the art, finding little details and characters that I didn't see initially. It's so wonderful and Dinotopia was the first time I'd seen something like that from a current artist, rather than oil paintings from hundreds of years ago. I can't express how much I love and appreciate his art!
That awesome!
Such a cool interview with an awesome man!
Outstanding! Thank you so much.
You're very welcome!
Thank you, Lindsay. This was terrific.
You're so welcome!
I love you both so much .this is a wonderful gift ,thank you very much ,i was a huge fan of Thomas Kincade
Glad you enjoyed it!
What an interesting interview! Thanks to both of you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
What an incredible interview.
Thank you!
You two are my favorite artists! ☺️😘🙏
Wow, thank you!
Love this! Thank you! What a great conversation.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was awesome. Totally fan-girling
Thank you both for inspiring me. Great interview!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is my favorite interview so far. James a very interesting man.
I love your interview style and the ease at how your put your guest. I have watched James for many years and have even tried to make the his travel easel, I was not as successful as I would have liked! I suppose that is the perfectionist in me and my preference for ceramic palettes for mixing! I have since used the enamel trays made of tin and they do not break when dropped! I like how they stick in place when using magnets too! Perhaps I need to try making it again? Well thanks again for an amazing interview and spectacular Podcast Lindsay. Thanks to James for being interviewed and you both are so appreciated and revered by all of us out here in the ether.
Please have a lovely day!
Thank you, you too!
Love James…. Great podcast/video
Thanks for listening
I initially didn’t think I knew who James Gurney was or was familiar with his art. Ha! I was surprised to realize I own two of his books. I have been an admirer of his work since forever. Somehow I haden’t made the connection… I can be a little slow sometimes. 😄 Anyway, great interview! I enjoyed it immensely… I think I’ll listen to it again. Thank you. 😊
Thank you!
Great guest !🎉🎉🎉
❤❤❤
Lindsay...thank you🙏
You are so welcome!
I discovered James Gourjeys videos about 1.5 years ago. I like his mellow and articulate way of speaking. He brings me some peace.
My first husband, had a Frank Frazetta picture painted on his motorcycle.😊
Oh wow!
Had to pause at 30mins. I’m loving this podcast. AI - what annoys me most is people post things and do not declare it’s all AI. IM talking crafters doing journal pages and it has been generated by AI. They should declare it like I say what tools I used, watercolour, stencils, stamps etc.
Wow, I didn't see it creep in to the art journal world!
Oh yeah! The Mr. Roger's crayon episode is legendary.
Yup
When is the 1982- James Gurney- "The artist guide to sketching" being re-released? I need to get my hands on a copy of that!
He said 2025.
Me too! Next year!
Casien paint has a very short shelf life and spoils quickly. Must be stored under limited temperature conditions (refer to manufacturer's guidelines). Spoiled paint is very stinky (literally spoiled milk). But, it is a lovely paint medium to work with, it remains workable like gauche and watercolor after it dries. Theatrical scene painters have used it for ages and some paint shops still use it. It can even be washed off muslin (provided it's prepped correctly and the pigment or dye isn't a highly staining variety). For preserving a piece for hanging, I would recommend investigating varnishes or sealant that are friendly to the paint. I've never sealed it because I never used it for permanent work.
Thanks for the tips!
That is very interesting. I've seen James's video on using casein as an underpainting. I actually bought some casein when I found it on sale, but I haven't been able to use it... my skill level just isn't up there yet.
James gurney is living legend...however to be honest i never felt got real knowledge of art from him...i feel im in presence of excellent artist but never got the essence of him. Its me ...not him...i tried understanding him several times...read his books...but realised over the time...i cant assimilate such vast knowledge with my small brain
James Gurney, the legend! Great interview! Turn off your TV! ❤❤❤
Thanks!
@thefrugalcrafter Oh, No, Thank You!!! I've only made it halfway through, and I feel so much smarter and so much taller from having listened to this conversation that I can hardly breathe. I actually feel taller... wow. I'll get back to it tonight. I had to run some errands and do some chores, and I have my TV busy watching the poor Xoonani arts channel. She's so sweet and so talented, and RUclips has her so buried that her Channel won't come up even if I type the exact name in! SMH. It was her birthday last week, and she needs love.
LOL! .....what they said...."dip pens".....what I heard......"Depends".......😂
😆
AwesomeI I shared to his Sketch Easel Builders Facebook group.
It's such a fun group!
Right?! I've pretty much dropped Facebook a couple years ago... but I'm back on now!