I can’t imagine a sketchbook being smaller than a legal pad or my paint tubes and brushes being carried in anything less than a Home Depot rolling tool box. OK, I’m a slob when it comes to packing paint and brushes for going on-location. A sketch of Gurney sketching at the Portrait Society of America gathering. Gurney gets his to-go supplies into a hiker’s fanny-pack. On location you might need several water brushes loaded with different hues-very convenient and I plan to try some. Apparently, you load the water brush’s hollow handle with liquid watercolor and away you go. So I Googled art stores to research this seemingly handy tool. He draws with HB and 4B pencils, and preloads water brushes, which I’d never heard of. Gurney has a keen sense of his surroundings which he records with the simplest ingredients: pencils and watercolors, a fountain pen and markers, all rendered in the tiniest sketchbook. Gurney showed his to-go-kit, minimal art supplies he takes on the road, to an audience of painters ranging from beginners to the highly skilled. At PSA’s conference, I chose a Gurney break-out session and began to learn how approachable he was. As a parent, I was familiar with his book Dinotopia but had never looked beyond the bedtime story scenario. The Portrait Society of America (April 2013) held its annual conference in Atlanta and featured illustrator James Gurney.
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