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A Studio Visit

Robert Hunt

I always love to visit another artist's studio. I suspect that Muddy Colors readers do too- so this month I thought I would give you a studio tour. I also know that readiers probably know little or nothing about me, as I don't think I am what one normally thinks of as a sci-fi fantasy artist (more on professional identity issues in a future article).  My studio is at my home, about 30 feet from…

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Sketching With Gurney and Kinkade

Arnie Fenner

March 24, 2025 - In 1980 young artists James Gurney and Thomas Kinkade climbed aboard a boxcar in Los Angeles and road the rails East seeking visual adventures. Drawing anything and everything all along the way, they returned to California months later and chronicled their journey in a book, The Artist’s Guide to Sketching, that they wrote over long weekends while painting backgrounds for Ralph Bakshi’s and Frank Frazetta’s animated film, Fire and Ice. Published by Watson-Guptill in 1982 The Artist’s Guide to Sketching was a modest seller and eventually went out of print; Gurney went on to his award-winning career in Illustration while Kinkade became the "Painter of Light” with his line of prints and products. The Artist’s Guide to Sketching would become a much sought-after collector’s item and copies have routinely sold for $100 or more from antiquarian…

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