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Perched on a Page: bird sketches galore at the Museum of American Bird Art
Perched on a Page, according to Museum of American Bird Art Director Amy Montague, set the MABA record for… Read more Perched on a Page: bird sketches galore at the Museum of American Bird Art
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Heavy weather? Not too bad for birds.
Feeder birds on a freezing National Bird Day, caught in pen and ink. Bluejays make handsome models, but even starlings are kind of pretty when you look close- lovely iridescence, handsome red legs,...
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The Better Part of a Year
Winter light on an oxbow’s sandy bluff on the Canadian River in Norman, Oklahoma. Pastel on sanded paper, about 8 1/2″ x 11″ or so. It’s been a strange year, and most of us are glad to scrape the last...
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The Trogon’s Sultry Lashes
Slaty tailed trogons working on a nest- digging into a termite’s home. Barro Colorado Island National Monument, Panama. Pencil on paper, 8 1/2″ x 11″ Trogons have movie-star eyelashes, and I’d always...
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Bird Work, Bird Art, Bird Play
Wattled jacanas, Chagres River marsh, Gamboa. Painted this damp and humid afternoon back at the house from raw material gathered at the river (alligator scales, moss, dragonfly wings). Watercolor over...
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Earth Day with the Motmot
Blue crowned motmot in Gamboa, Panama. Currently my favorite bird. Sorry for the bad image quality- there’s no scanner here. This was scope-drawn using the blind-contour technique, which never fails to...
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2015 flutters to a landing
White-tailed, a.k.a. black-shouldered kite, preening at Moss Landing. It crossed its wingtips in front of its tail, politely. Pencil-drawn through a scope in a Lana sketchbook. It was a year when...
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Painting from Plein Air Drawings, Part 2
The collection, so far. Left to right, chestnut sided warbler at Doyle’s cellar; American redstart at Wing Spooner’s malt mill, ovenbird at Spooner’s mill, myrtle warbler at Nelson’s cider mill, and...
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Studio Paintings from Plein Air Drawings
18th century cider mill dam in Harvard Forest, Massachusetts. One sees the prairie in layers: sky, grass, soil. And then there’s the forest, constructed from tall, thin strips: tree stems, stacked...
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Sketch of the Day: Sunrise on a Spanish Marsh
Spanish marsh at dawn, Doñana National Park. A grove of poplars served as a communal night roost and command center from which fifteen red kites launched into space that morning, one by one, to drift...
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Sketches From Spain: A Few Thanksgiving Birds
A flock of European goldfinches pick thistle seeds in Doñana National Park. Drawn through the scope, watercolor over pencil in Lana 1590 8 1/2″ x 11″ spiral bound sketchbook. The rain in Spain falls...
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Friday Sketchbook: Birding in Danish
Northern Lapwing, a.k.a Vibe (Vee-bay). The Danish name is charming, and suits it well. What’s a wing, lapped, anyway? Pencil on Stillman & Birn Alpha Series sketchbook. Getting out with Danish...
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Friday Sketchbook: Copenhagen Zoo and a Night of Culture, Too
Muskox and hooded crows at Copenhagen Zoo. Watercolor over pencil, Robert Bateman 8 1/2″ x 11 sketchbook. At the Copenhagen Zoo today, drawing many new animals. The rainforest walkthrough was...
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Friday Sketchbook: Odds and Ends
Cormorant, preening, above quietly reflective lapwings at Nivå Marsh. Pencil on Stillman & Birn Alpha Series. Not a big day for drawing, but a splendid one nonetheless. The agenda included...
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Sketch of the Day: Birds and Botany
A snippet of a sketchbook page; avian activity at the Botanical Garden, a.k.a. Botanisk Have. “Have”, pronounced, “ha-va”, is the Danish word for garden, and might be the root of the English word,...
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Sketch of the Day: Ganymede and Jupiter’s Eagle
The story goes like this: Jupiter abducted the handsome shepherd boy Ganymede and put him to work as cup-bearer for his pet eagle. Denmark’s great sculptor of the 19th century, Bertel Thorvaldsen,...
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Sketch of the Day: Migration on a Danish Marsh
Fall Migration with a few thousand shorebirds on a sandbar at Olsemagle Revle, a bird sanctuary on Køge Bay south of Copenhagen. Starlings hawked insects, an osprey cruised, a kestrel put shorebirds up...
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Sketch of the Day: Shorebirds at Ølsemagle (oolseh-mowel) Revle
Lapwings and Oystercatchers at the marshes north of Køge, Denmark. The lapwings hung out in the inland lagoons and the oystercatchers socialized in the kelp and surf on the other side of a single...
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Art Supplies…or Chocolate?
Candy store, art store, what’s the difference? Shopping for color in Copenhagen. The sky is turning citrus-orange behind the pinned stack of royal crowns (actually, the Danish Royal Parliament’s bronze...
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Sketch of the Day: Lapwings at Nivå, Denmark
Flock of Lapwings drawn through a scope at Nivå Bugt Meadows. Beautiful marsh on the coast of Zealand north of Copenhagen, only a short walk from the Nivå train station. Pencil in Stillman & Birn 8...
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