What Did the Future Look Like When This Biplane Was New?
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- Опубликовано: 20 мар 2022
- James Gurney sketches a 1929 New Standard biplane at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome using casein paint, with the help of a sight-size grid, and a home-made easel. He considers how people imagined the future when that airplane was new and how close their predictions actually turned out to be.
THANKS TO:
Syn Studio Art School, Montreal: synstudio.ca/
ImagineFX Magazine / Creative Bloq / Vertex Week: www.creativebloq.com/imaginefx
Mark and Ken at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome: oldrhinebeck.org/biplane-rides/
MATERIALS (CASEIN)
Titanium white: tinyurl.com/4n24p7vb
Cadmium yellow light: tinyurl.com/yc2rax4e
Cadmium orange: tinyurl.com/ys77jj6e
Cadmium red scarlet: tinyurl.com/mr2dw4cz
Rose red: tinyurl.com/mth72639
Ivory black: tinyurl.com/ya4k5b7p
Golden Ochre: tinyurl.com/y7edc4v4
Cerulean blue: tinyurl.com/2b6tm9y3
Ultramarine blue: tinyurl.com/2x9afht9
Venetian red: tinyurl.com/kxwd4kf6
Casein emulsion: bit.ly/3RoP4gz
Casein basic set of 6 colors: bit.ly/3EF4o11
Casein underpainting set of 6: bit.ly/3PDNcQ0
Winsor and Newton gloss varnish: tinyurl.com/2jd4fv8m
Travel brush set: bit.ly/46fkdXY
Water cup: amzn.to/2soTw2L
Plein-air tripod: tinyurl.com/mryzzfx7
Homemade easel: gurneyjourney.gumroad.com/l/s...
VIDEO TUTORIALS:
“Casein Painting in the Wild” (Download on Gumroad): gumroad.com/l/casein
“How to Make a Sketch Easel” (DVD): kunaki.com/Sales.asp?PID=PX00Z...
BLOG POSTS WITH MORE GEAR INFO:
Gouache Materials List: gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/201...
BOOKS BY JAMES GURNEY:
Color and Light: A Guide for Realist Painters: amzn.to/2JhWtfc
Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist: amzn.to/2LbVHhc
Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time: amzn.to/2xyamRM
OTHER OFFICIAL SITES
James Gurney's Gumroad channel: gumroad.com/gurneyjourney
Instagram: / jamesgurneyart
Pinterest: / gurneyjourney
GurneyJourney Blog: gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/
JamesGurney Website: jamesgurney.com/site/shop
Facebook group "Sketch Easel Builders": groups/40300...
Music by Kevin Macleod incompetech.com/
James I'm 43 and a lifetime fan of your detailed paintings. recently I've had an MS attack and dearing this time, I have been using my art skill better and sence I moved from Texas to Mississippi I have new things to paint and sketch out people and different place's around the rehab. have a blessed day, and I'll put painting on the plain air sites.
Thanks, Malcolm, I’m honored that you’re spending time with my videos and glad to hear they’re helping you.
Amazing as always. I'm surprised you mentioned chroma/hue but didn't plug your colour and light book! It's the best printed source for explaining how colour works with paint, definitely
Thanks for mentioning "Color and Light". USA customers can get signed copies at my website: jamesgurney.com/products/color-and-light-a-guide-for-the-realist-painter-signed-by-james-gurney
I'm colourblind and only see blue and yellow, but last year I got colourvision glasses that let me see red and green and purple etc. One night I couldn't sleep and binged on your videos with my glasses on, as someone who is learning to paint in colour it's made a real difference to me seeing you work and hearing your explanations. Thank you for your videos!
Hey James! I'm reading through "Imaginative Realism", it's endlessly fascinating. I'm a 25 year old artist who paints the artist Syd Barrett. Using your methods I'm attempting to rely less and less on photo reference confidently. Thank you for all that you do
so so happy for a new video from you!
Jam packed with info regarding not only painting but background and historical info about the old plane. So interesting.
I love the gadgets you come up with to assist your painting session. Thank you!
So fascinating. I love the design history combined with a beautiful medium like casein. 💖
James, thank you for everything you're doing, you inspire and encourage me to get out of my comfort zone and be fearless. I'm learning a lot from you, and it's a delight to watch your videos in general. They give a positive vibe! I hope it's alright for tagging you in my illustration on Instagram. I was inspired by you! Have a good day! ☀️
Awesome like always
"What Did the Future Look Like Before Student Debt" would be an interesting topic to explore in a painting.
I love this subject and painting. You are also a superb narrator.
Wow, Very interesting history and great painting. Absolute pleasure to watch
Great painting James. I used to visit Rhinebeck several times a year but haven't been there in several decades now that I live in Quebec. I do miss the place. Flying in the 25 is pretty special.
Tools like those are only a crutch if you decide your success is based on your ability to do everything freehand. But art is so much more than that. There's more to a drawing than the outlines. You can still make a very skillful and artistic image by starting out tracing.
Your videos are always so informative and inspiring! This one in particular has motivated me to go plein air painting for the first time since I was in college
This is such a entertaining video to watch cuz of the extra information and interactions of where you’re drawing. :) great video thank you, amazing artwork!
Absolutely beautiful work.
Hi James, I totally agree, using a grid has helped to improve my drawing skills immensely 🙏🎨🙏
Very nice and informative video , thanks a lot James , and really well done painting!
Love your work James, brought back fond memories of going to air shows when I was a kid
It's my life's dream to be able to paint like you. Thank you for the constant inspiration.
ABSOLUTE LOVE IT
3D space to a 2D plane. Was that an intentional pun?
Always entertaining and educational. I love your works. They're inspirational.
Great video. Loved watching that plane come to life. Really enjoyed the extra info about the plane. Thanks for showing the grid system you used. I use one regularly because I know my tendency is squish my painting to the right and then lean all the uprights to the left. The grid keeps me “balanced” usually.
Always a lot of background information and history. Love it.
A ha, this time the easel was upgraded (twice).
Super nice video!
Amazing capture of that beautiful plane👌
Two of my favorite things! :)
You’re a gift to mankind sir.
Great work. I like the vintage feel of this.
I remember when my mom who’s an art teacher told me no graphing… glad you use it ❤️ Some of my best pieces have a graph start
It's very realistic! Amazing art
Superb!😊👍✌️
Great video!
Enjoying the video... and then you painted the wing shadow. Yes - mind exploded... :)
'What they failed to image or predict, was traffic jams, parking lots, freeways and suburbia' - Ain't the the truth. I think we're starting to realize now that what sold to us as a 'freedom', is now really just a mess to daunting for anyone to attempt to clean. If only we could wet the brush a paint back nature. Lovely video James, thanks for sharing. (Love the new green water screen effects btw)
I feel that the past looked more futuristic than our present in some ways
Very cool! My personal take on sci-fi genre stuff is that that the future-dystopian storylines and mind-bending adventures of the early 20th century did heed the warning signs of "petty earthling behavior" and foretold of grave consequences of ignoring our human faults and how we might work to save ourselves from "one possible [insufferable] future"
This aircraft reminds me of Saint Exupery book Sand, Wind and Stars. He used to fly a similar to this one.
Your videos are great to improve our mood. I was down beat because the girl I like kind of don't want to see me. She's a painter too. Couldn't get to paint without thinking of her. Heartache
Really interested to learn about the sight grid method. I first saw it when you painted the Jeep on the lot and have looked for it ever since. Also, I love the longer format video!
I don't even paint am more of a pencil guy myself but I really enjoy watching you paint. Nice as always
Nice video! Your brushes also look like they are in such good condition. I'd be interested in a video on brush cleaning and care and deciding when to retire a brush.
Very interesting. I too want to try grids.
cool, i wil go try it with cars, i love your work , super pure. 🍻
7:25 there's an excellent book on the Graf Zeppelin called "Dr. Eckener's Dream Machine". Highly recommended!
This is the first time I remember seeing the sight size grid explained in detail in one of your videos. For a couple years I've been pausing and examining the videos everytime I see it in the background
Thanks, Zoungy. I'll go into even more depth in a future vid.
Your ability to name the parts of the plane’s wing impresses me, as does your use of science theories around light, architectural and nautical terms (etc) in previous videos and I remember a trip to a European gallery where the guide explained sailors were often the best painters of ships due to their innate knowledge of the often complex rigging. So for you what comes first? Understanding how all the pieces work to help with a more natural feeling picture or does the process of making many pictures on the subject help you to learn the parts leading up to successively more informative enjoyable (at least to all of us!) pieces?
Not quite as old as dinosaurs but amazing! 🖌️✨💖
Waah .masterpiece
Hi james this is ashwin from india i love ur art works really motivating me one day i also becomme a artist like u and i will prest u my art works ......❤❤❤
Nice
Another wonderful piece of a fascinating subject! I really enjoy the plein air work, and it's always so nice to hear you talk to the local people and experts! But with all this talk of science fiction, I can't help but wonder - do you still also create imaginative pieces? Do you still dabble in some science fiction or fantasy of your own? As someone who has your book on how to paint something that doesn't exist, I was feeling curious 😊
Laughed so hard when you pulled out the huge pencil that I almost woke up everyone in the house 🤣🤣
I feel a lot better about my speed after watching a legend set up his painting. How long does one painting usually take you?
Also nice to see your sponsors are actual quality products- Imagine Fx is great fun to read.
Great video by the way.
Thanks!
Thanks so much, Jael!
@@JamesGurney You're welcome!! I just love your videos. I've been improving a little bit with my gouache paintings just watching your videos. thank you so much for sharing all your talent and instructions.
Hello James! I love your work, I recently discovered your channel, do you know the camera Lucida?
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Mr. Gurney, do you cut down your brush handles, or did they come that short? Thanks for the great video.
Some come short, but I cut down the rest. Long handles don't work for me because they bump into the camera.
@@JamesGurney Got it! Thanks.
"Today is yesterday's tomorrow" . . . time travel fascinates me . . .
I love the painting and being able to see the process! Thank you for that! I find it a bit irritating to see the squares of the grid..if I'd erase the grid before painting..would I ruin the surface?
Try using a kneaded eraser and just roll it over the page instead of rubbing like you would with a normal eraser. Keeps the friction down and should pick up some of the graphite without damaging the paper.
Depends on your paper. Usually for water based paints you'd use a pretty sturdy paper, so a little bit of erasing won't be enough to ruin the surface. And as it was mentioned above, you could also use a kneaded eraser (I don't think it would affect the surface even if you were to rub with it tbh)
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I agree with Gwing and Gabriela. I just forgot to use the eraser. Either kneaded eraser or white eraser should work OK.
@@JamesGurney thank you very much! I just purchased your book " color and light"..I'm a great fan of you!
Super cool paintings! Out of curiosity, how are you able to get that footage of the sketchbook straight into the camera?
Do you mean capturing the painting process? I have a second tripod with a Canon M6 camera on it.
@@JamesGurney ah yes that was what I was referring to! Thanks for taking the time to answer the question, I'm amazed that the camera doesn't get in your way of painting at all!
What does the iron cross in the garage mean?
That was an identifier on the tail of a replica German WWI aircraft.
I'm curious as to how (or whether) the grid lines are erased after painting. Can it be done without removing the casein?
in my experience, you draw them lightly enough that when you paint it covers it up. I normally do all my watercolor sketches with a light blue or red colored pencil (depending on the wash) so it gives into the background texture
@@astragorgon3257 Good tip. But in this case, what did James do? The grid still appears visible at the end.
I really wish I had more patience for sketching, I'm fine if I'm working plein air, but I trace my references all the time. My art journey started with sketching, but when I found paint I just wanted to skip that step. Now I've just been painting for a few years and my sketching skills have gotten a tad rusty.
Star Trek really got the future right in certain areas (about devices) . . .
many Dutch masters used lenses. I use a digital projector. it does indeed feels like cheating so I just dont mention it to clients.
When are you going to talk about grids?
Memories of a future past. Melancholy is a spiritual illness.
are you using gouache?
He says casein in the video
Casein is very similar to gouache, just a bit more resistant to reactivation after it dries. You could also use AcrylaGouache
James... wouldn't you feel waste of time doing gouache or casein studies...when you could do oils or acrylic which are more permanent and archival ? I feel like whenever I paint which is once or twice a week...I want to do one good oil painting rather than a gouache study. Maybe my insight is rubbish. Please comment 🙏
Casein and gouache are just as archival as oil, but you do have to protect them a bit more.
just take a photo - print it out and trace it - if you're going to go THAT far - you might as well just do it at that point man lol
*finds James Gurney on any social* oop, better follow! *clicks follow button*