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When Something Looks Easy


Vanessa Lemen

You know how someone will mention how an artist they admire can make what they’re creating look easy? It’s often meant as a compliment to the person they’re saying it about, as if the art just flew off the brush and landed in such a way, or that watching them work is like watching a wonderful dance in which the love for their craft is palpable. It's a beautiful thing! I love seeing artists work…

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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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