One of the ways our eyes can’t be trusted concerns color. But doing so often means, in a very real sense, not trusting their own eyes. Artists, he explained, want to convey that experience. For a video showing his process for painting realistic dinosaur scenes, see Illustrating 'Dinosaur Death Trap.') “Painting is a record of one person’s subjective visual experience of the world,” Gurney told me. (He has also illustrated articles for Scientific American. He writes a blog, Gurney Journey, that includes numerous posts on vision and how it works. As an artist, Gurney knew, you have to trick them back-or what you produce won’t look anything like what you thought you saw.Īlthough all good visual artists need to understand perception, Gurney has taken the study more seriously than most. The task was a visual one: translate the three dimensional scene that your eyes and your brain compile into a flat picture that makes you-and other viewers-re-experience something similar. “How am I going get all this down onto a 9 by 12 panel in a matter of hours?” he wondered, despite having confronted this conundrum countless times before. Signs poked out from the store and up from the street. Surveying the scene before him, he was immediately overwhelmed with literally millions of details. A few years ago, James Gurney, a celebrated artist and author, stood before his easel to paint a deli in Poughkeepsie.
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