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KING BABY! (Kate BEATON) sc $14.99 Read more.RORY THE DINOSAUR – ME & MY DAD (Liz CLIMO) $14.99 Add to cart.His Dinotopia artwork has won the Hugo, Chesley, Spectrum, and World Fantasy Awards and has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution, the Norman Rockwell Museum, and the Delaware Art Museum. The wispy clouds, low perspective, and masterful lighting make this work utterly unforgettable. Postal Service, including The World of Dinosaurs. James Gurney of Dinotopia fame has done some wonderful illustrations intended to show Mesozoic dinosaurs in their own time, and none are so striking or iconic as this Giganotosaurus.

He has illustrated seventeen stamps for the U.S. This edition includes a new Afterword written by author James Gurney as well as a special section of behind-the-scenes studies and maquettes he used in developing his paintings.īefore writing and illustrating Dinotopia, James Gurney painted reconstructions of ancient civilizations for National Geographic magazine.

And as a tale of high adventure and discovery told as entries and sketches in journal form, Dinotopia presents a shipwrecked visitor’s glimpse into an imagined social order, a culture, and even a cooperative interspecies technology that will satisfy lovers of fantasy and science fiction of all persuasions. Digitally re-rendered from the original transparencies, Gurney’s dramatic panoramas of Dinotopia and close-up character studies of its inhabitants – both human and saurian – take on new vitality. Now, Calla Editions brings Gurney’s spectacular artistry to a new generation in this 20th anniversary edition. Gurney’s premise – of an undiscovered island where a race of mystical humans co-exists in harmony with intelligent dinosaurs – has been since reiterated over and over in numerous films and by scores of other writers.

He lives in the Hudson River Valley in New York with his wife, two sons, and blue parakeet - a living descendant of dinosaurs.When James Gurney’s Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time first appeared in 1992, it was immediately hailed as a fully imagined world of the caliber of J. Gurney’s art currently appears in museum exhibitions around the world. An accomplished, award-winning artist, Gurney is the recipient of many prestigious honors, including seven Chesley Awards from the Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists (ASFA), two Hugo Awards from the World Science Fiction Convention, and Best of Show from the Art Director’s Club. He has worked on assignment as a National Geographic artist and has illustrated 17 U.S. James Gurney is the best-selling author and illustrator of the Dinotopia book series and creator of more than 70 illustrated book covers.