Friday, September 8, 2017

Planning Stages



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Planning Stages
// Gurney Journey

Here are three stages in planning Dinosaur Boulevard for Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time

The first one is a grisaille study in oil, about 3 x 6 inches. I wanted to organize the values of the scene— a very light sky, a pale row of buildings, and then deep darks unifying the foreground elements.


The purpose of the second study is to work out the perspective and overlapping.

For any scene this complex, it's a big help to break down the planning stages into several discrete stages, with the goal of solving a different problem with each sketch.


The original painting is on its way to Athens, where it will be on exhibit as part of the big science fiction exhibit that was most recently in London (link to video overview).
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The painting appears in the book Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
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