![]() ![]() 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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