Posted in Art, Artists, Drawing, Harvard Forest, Nature, New England, Petersham, Sketching, field sketching, museums, painting, plein air on July 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Doyle’s Cascade, plein air pastel/graphite, 12″x16″
Lately water’s been my main theme, water and what I’m calling enchanted places, places that lure me in with fairy dust and siren songs. Forest interiors, green and lush, waterfalls, moss. Toadstools. Gnomes (someone with a nice appreciation of Harvard Forest’s mossy glens has tucked a few of the little [...]
Posted in Art, Nature, New England, Petersham, field sketching, literature, nature journaling, painting, philosophy, plein air on July 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
How do you celebrate the birthday of an American icon, naturalist, writer, dedicated observer and commentator on the landscape of his native New England? I suggest doing what I did today: sitting under a tree by a pond, painting and listening to bullfrogs twang and water burble over the top of a beaver dam. On [...]
Posted in Art, Drawing, Environment, Harvard Forest, Nature, New England, Panama, Petersham, Sketching, archeology, birds, field sketching, history, plein air, rainforest, tropics on July 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Every day, now that summer has arrived here in Harvard Forest, I’m struck with the false sense of having landed in the tropics: same high humidity and almost daily rainfall, the lush greenery and exuberant growth, exotic sounding birdcalls and all those monkeys…um, chipmunks running around. Walking through the woods yesterday I saw how similar [...]
