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About the Motmot
Exploring the natural world with pencil and paper from high atop a one-story bungalow in the middle of Oklahoma.
Author Archives: zeladoniac
New Orleans Gumbo Report
On Magazine Street over margaritas and sherry-soaked scallop tacos, a New Orleans friend put it this way: “we are drinking people with a parading problem”. He was talking about his relatively local wheelbarrow parade, but he might have meant the … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, Art, birds, Culture, Diversions, Drawing, Food, history, Music, self-indulgence, Sketching, travel, tropics, Weather
Tagged American cultural treasures, art, drawing, Jazz, Jazzfest, Mardi Gras, Mardi Gras Indians, Nature, New Orleans, parades, travel
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Friday Figures- Don’t Look Back
Off to a new adventure- four days in New Orleans. On a mission to see tiny courtyard gardens behind wrought iron gates, to wander crowded, noisy streets to the tune of horns, brass band or auto. Looking for the odd … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure!, architecture, Art, Drawing, figure drawing, history, Sketching, travel
Tagged art, drawing, figure drawing, life drawing, oil sketching, travel, tropics
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A Hungry Carnival of Birds
Stuffed birds aren’t always in museums. Sometimes they’re perched in trees, crammed to the tops of their crops. They get sleepy, their heads tilt and eyes glaze over; they are simply stupefied by gluttony. Drawing songbirds through the scope is … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure!, Art, bird art, birding, birds, Drawing, field sketching, Food, garden, Nature, nature journaling, Oklahoma, Sketching, Weather, Wildlife
Tagged art, bird watching, birding, birds, burford holly, cedar waxwings, drawing, frugivores, holly berries, life drawing, Nature, Oklahoma, plants, scopes, sketching, Wildlife
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