James Gurney: Fantasy in the Wild

Spectrum Grand Master James Gurney takes his easel to the streets in this unique project to create two imaginative paintings entirely on location.  In the first, he transforms a townscape with magical lighting.  In the second, he invents a dramatic scenario with a giant robot in a fast-food urbanscape.  Gurney documents each image all the way from the first sketch to the final painting, using a practical but entertaining "driver's seat" perspective.  You will learn to sketch thumbnails and comprehensives, build a flexible maquette from construction foam, get maximum inspiration from the location, recognize when an ideal isn't working and how to fix it, create a viewing grid for an accurate line drawing and imply a backstory with selective details. We'll take the easel to the streets to paint two imaginative scenes entirely outdoors. The robot painting takes me to several locations, including a construction site and a fast-food streetscape. I spend some time doing gouache studies of th