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Bookshelf Brotherhood

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGv36Xqm_BvZ7ywRE1KQQ4Igj6ppsVzvUq40annVHOo93tAbcIXaxqhpMbT-WzbBWNNj-ngnXUMQbZ1-QKagJDP6qcpBKrOpL-43pgSjn2KbVs3xE8MjsfO1G1kuzn7cwcbtgyIThd070i/s1600/ImagineFX+books.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /><img border="0" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGv36Xqm_BvZ7ywRE1KQQ4Igj6ppsVzvUq40annVHOo93tAbcIXaxqhpMbT-WzbBWNNj-ngnXUMQbZ1-QKagJDP6qcpBKrOpL-43pgSjn2KbVs3xE8MjsfO1G1kuzn7cwcbtgyIThd070i/s400/ImagineFX+books.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://stefankopinski.com/stefan_kopinski_gallery/info.html">Stefan Kopinski</a> has <a href="http://jamesgurney.com/site/213/color-and-light-a-guide-for-the-realist-painter">Color and Light</a> and <a href="http://jamesgurney.com/site/241/241">Imaginative Realism</a> on his bookshelf. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://stefankopinski.com/stefan_kopinski_gallery/info.html">Stefan</a> is a freelance illustrator for the games industry who visualizes "weird and wonderful ideas" for Sega, Capcom, Forge World, Mantic, and THQ. Here's his <a href="http://stefankopinski.com/stefan_kopinski_gallery/gallery/Pages/illustration.html">illustration portfolio</a>.</div><br />The photo appears in the new issue of<a href="http://www.imaginefx.com/"> ImagineFX magazine</a>. Thanks for putting me in such good company!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1599290634/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=gurnjour-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1599290634">Spectrum 19: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=gurnjour-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1599290634" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300098065/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=gurnjour-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300098065">John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=gurnjour-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0300098065" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401227821/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=gurnjour-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1401227821">Cover Run: The DC Comics Art of Adam Hughes (Adam Hughes Cover to Cover)</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=gurnjour-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1401227821" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br /><div><div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/2732433306/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=gurnjour-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=2732433306">Lucian Freud 1996-2005</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=gurnjour-20&l=as2&o=1&a=2732433306" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></div></div><div><div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076242415X/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=gurnjour-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=076242415X">Best of Norman Rockwell</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=gurnjour-20&l=as2&o=1&a=076242415X" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></div></div><div><div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401215769/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=gurnjour-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1401215769">Fables Covers by James Jean</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=gurnjour-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1401215769" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></div></div><div><div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1921002409/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=gurnjour-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1921002409">EXPOSE 5: The Finest Digital Art in the Known Universe</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=gurnjour-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1921002409" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></div></div><div><a href="http://www.danielmaghen.com/fr/l-univers-des-dragons-deuxieme-souffle_l15.htm">Universe des Dragons,</a> Galerie Daniel Maghen</div><div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0955153069/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=gurnjour-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0955153069">Digital Painting Techniques, Vol. 3</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=gurnjour-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0955153069" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br /><a href="http://jamesgurney.com/site/213/color-and-light-a-guide-for-the-realist-painter">Color and Light</a><br /><a href="http://jamesgurney.com/site/241/241">Imaginative Realism</a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbFfPENcln8eewXfX74jKx3U1AbSQGeFEaAOt0J9pnG1iT7sBF3xU-i9NTHzqZq7F_yP5sVA6L1MckM7AIzBT1YPjlj-ztD8CwjNYkmM4QV5vXMpo-lZcQt5Ms2hdqyJYntTZEDY_WOeUF/s1600/2s6ad1s.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbFfPENcln8eewXfX74jKx3U1AbSQGeFEaAOt0J9pnG1iT7sBF3xU-i9NTHzqZq7F_yP5sVA6L1MckM7AIzBT1YPjlj-ztD8CwjNYkmM4QV5vXMpo-lZcQt5Ms2hdqyJYntTZEDY_WOeUF/s400/2s6ad1s.jpeg" width="393" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">P. S. Ian Malcolm Miles sent me a photo of his bookshelf, too. Thanks, Ian.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Previously on GJ:<a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2009/01/rearranging-art-books.html"> Rearranging Art Books</a></div><br /></div>

Bookshelf Brotherhood

Stefan Kopinski has Color and Light and Imaginative Realism on his bookshelf. Stefan is a freelance illustrator for the games industr...

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Chinese "Imaginative Realism"

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiePYOeLFK5eYXWnArdiBHhwW-4Zf5ZTXqS2gSDd7f2xXEBKDZmJrnCQG_xgS-jJTJTb7LpG-d2fn309gbNG6yL79MiseJFkSG4xouffQZUb2YR4DKakVlH5QC-rIte0rTJY0A5S7SeJSA/s1600/Imaginative+Realism.Chinese.sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiePYOeLFK5eYXWnArdiBHhwW-4Zf5ZTXqS2gSDd7f2xXEBKDZmJrnCQG_xgS-jJTJTb7LpG-d2fn309gbNG6yL79MiseJFkSG4xouffQZUb2YR4DKakVlH5QC-rIte0rTJY0A5S7SeJSA/s400/Imaginative+Realism.Chinese.sm.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><a href="http://www.shwenyi.com/english/html/fa.html">Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House</a> has just published a Chinese edition of <i>Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist. </i>The layout of the book is the same as the English edition, but the dimensions are a little smaller. As far as we know, this edition will only be available in China.<br />----<br /><div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0740785508/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=gurnjour-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0740785508">The English language edition is available through Amazon</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" nbsp="nbsp" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=gurnjour-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0740785508" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />or <a href="http://jamesgurney.com/site/241/241">signed from the Dinotopia Store</a><br />-------</div><div><a href="http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/11/20/imaginative-realism-how-to-paint-what-doesnt-exist/">Review of I.R. on Lines and Colors</a></div><div>Previously on GurneyJourney:</div><div><a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2012/04/part-3-shanghai-diary-old-town.html">Watercolor painting in old Shanghai</a></div><div><a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2012/10/chinese-interview-about-sketching.html">Chinese magazine interview about sketching</a></div><div><a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2011/05/ir-in-japanese.html">Japanese edition of Imaginative Realism</a></div>

Chinese "Imaginative Realism"

Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House has just published a Chinese edition of Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exi...

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Teaching Art in Malawi

Freelance illustrator<a href="http://jessicacasner.com/"> Jessica Casner </a>sent me this inspiring email:<br /><br />"My name is Jessica Casner, and I recently traveled to Malawi for two months to teach the process of storyboarding and illustration to a wonderful group of students. My professor, Ron Mazellan, said that you would be encouraged to know that I left "Imaginative Realism" and "Color and Light" with the teachers due to the fact that their library had insufficient examples on understanding art and the process of its making."<br /><div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCZzxnA7nqPszXKn34K2zSEhZidm9OutDIiPHk-VSt_LHZaAK183Zaw5R-eaM2FrjsFOAMekvL3oHHlsGfJ9j0PLY9lv2Hw1dE3FIQtSrEeoSbQfHRcdoxURbbSlLoettZis8fEeUFYV4/s1600/Casner_Gurney_Books.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCZzxnA7nqPszXKn34K2zSEhZidm9OutDIiPHk-VSt_LHZaAK183Zaw5R-eaM2FrjsFOAMekvL3oHHlsGfJ9j0PLY9lv2Hw1dE3FIQtSrEeoSbQfHRcdoxURbbSlLoettZis8fEeUFYV4/s400/Casner_Gurney_Books.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div>"The Chichewa word for car is "gallimoto", and needless to say there were many shrieks of delight as they understood that some "gallimotos" could fly. Please know that the teachers and students are overjoyed to be able to learn even after I have left, and that you have given them hope and inspiration to create beyond our understanding."<br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks, Jessica! I have a special feeling for your gift because my own interest in becoming an artist came from art instruction books I found when I was young. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If anyone else would like to share my books in a special teaching setting, or with their local community center, teen hangout, retirement home, or hobby group, you can <a href="http://jamesgurney.com/site/books">order directly from me,</a> and I would be happy to sign it specially for your group.  </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">-----</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://jamesgurney.com/site/books">JamesGurney.com online bookstore</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://jessicacasner.com/">Jessica Casner's website</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">----</div><div><br /></div></div>

Teaching Art in Malawi

Freelance illustrator Jessica Casner sent me this inspiring email: "My name is Jessica Casner, and I recently traveled to Malawi for t...