{"id":18463,"date":"2020-05-11T00:53:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T05:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/?p=18463"},"modified":"2020-05-11T00:57:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T05:57:33","slug":"budgies-in-art-mr-kooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/?p=18463","title":{"rendered":"Budgies in Art &#8211; Mr. Kooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Kooks by artist <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesgurney.com\/site\/\">James Gurney<\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/gurneyjourney.blogspot.com\/2013\/10\/mister-kooks-2002-2013.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18466\" src=\"http:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Mr.Kooks_.sm_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Mr.Kooks_.sm_.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Mr.Kooks_.sm_-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Mr.Kooks_.sm_-377x300.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>James Gurney is the author\/illustrator of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dinotopia-Land-Apart-Time-Anniversary\/dp\/1606600222\">Dinotopia<\/a> series.<a href=\"http:\/\/jamesgurney.com\/site\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18467\" src=\"http:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Painting.Utopiales.sm3_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Painting.Utopiales.sm3_.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Painting.Utopiales.sm3_-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Painting.Utopiales.sm3_-410x300.jpg 410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He is also a paleoartist, who depicts and restores in his paintings extinct fauna. Gurney has designed stamps, illustrated book covers and written books on art instruction.<a href=\"https:\/\/archosaurmusings.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/03\/interview-with-james-gurney\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18465\" src=\"http:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/birdhead-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/birdhead-sm.jpg 450w, https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/birdhead-sm-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gurney&#8217;s budgie Mr. Kooks was also a very talented artist.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4KIEVIG3B1g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Kooks by artist James Gurney. James Gurney is the author\/illustrator of the Dinotopia series. He is also a paleoartist, who depicts and restores in his paintings extinct fauna. Gurney has designed stamps, illustrated book covers and written books on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/?p=18463\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[426,1],"tags":[7,246,2289,1826,1828,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18463"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18471,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18463\/revisions\/18471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}