The Artist's Guide to Sketching by James Gurney. The resulting product of their trip was this 1982 book, The Artist's Guide to Sketching: Yes, that Thomas Kinkade, the notorious "painter of light." That friend was his roommate at UC Berkeley: Thomas Kinkade. In a recent interview with the Norman Rockwell Museum, he describes how his art career began after college, when, inspired by Charles Kuralt and John Steinbeck, he and a friend traveled around the country hopping trains and sketching, "sleeping in graveyards and on rooftops." But his artistic career began riding the rails, sketching gritty scenes from around the country. Artist James Gurney is best known for the gorgeous, nearly photorealistic illustrations that appear in his Dinotopia books, which imagine a world in which humans and dinosaurs live together.
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