I’m on a big push right now to finish up my Trinidad and Tobago plates, along with other projects enough to cause sleep deprivation. Much, much more to do, but it’s time for a short break and a quick post which will last as long as it takes me to eat a sliced apple.
Last weekend [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Drawing Nebraska’s Sandhill Cranes
Posted in Drawing, Environment, Sketching, Wildlife, bird art, birding, birds, field sketching, nature journaling, travel on March 29, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Drawing With Friends at the Museum
Posted in Art, Artists, Drawing, How-to, Oklahoma, Wildlife, archeology, museums, paleontology, teaching on March 17, 2009 | 10 Comments »
There’s something special about sketching with friends. Last Saturday my friends Becky and Mitsuno and I met upstairs in the Natural Wonders Gallery at SNOMNH for a morning of companionable sketching. Our little group was a cluster of self-affirming creative expression (“wow, LOVE the way you drew the face on that deer” “nice gesture [...]
Giant Ants, Fiddle Players and Other Wise Diversions
Posted in Adventure!, Darwin, Drawing, Environment, Music, Oklahoma, Science, Sketching, Stupid Critter Tricks, self-indulgence, tropics on March 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Not that I really wanted to take on the polarizing issues of the day, but that last post was my first and maybe only foray into the evolutionary kettle of worms. Thank you all for keeping things on a civilized level (except for that automated hate-comment spambot that got deleted the moment it attacked). I [...]
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Exhibition: Drawing the Motmot; An Artist’s View of Tropical Nature
October 10-January 18 at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Click on the picture for a link to the Museum!
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Just reissued and now available on CDBaby.com! The band from the Motmot’s banjo pickin’ days!
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