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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.
Category Archives: Environment
Friday Feathers- Woodstorks at the 16th Hole
I am Artist in Residence this week at Spring Island Trust in Okatie, SC, drawing and painting birds and sunlit landscapes with palmettos and broad marshes, alligators, live oaks dripping Spanish moss. Wonderful wading birds: tricolored herons, little blues, greens, … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure!, Art, Artists, bird art, birding, birds, Diversions, Drawing, Environment, field sketching, Nature, nature journaling, painting, plein air, random speculation, Sketching, travel, Wildlife
Tagged anhinga, art, baby birds, bird watching, birding, birds, drawing, golf, life drawing, Nature, scope drawing, sketchbooks, travel, water, watercolor, Wildlife, wood storks
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Follow the River
In my townie neighborhood, a small stream trickles through masonry walls on a bed of cement. A heavy downpour doesn’t call it to life so much as flush its trash down the sewer. The city has constructed a path along … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure!, Art, Artists, bird art, birding, birds, Drawing, Environment, field sketching, Nature, Oklahoma, painting, Pastel, plein air, Sketching, travel, Wildlife
Tagged art, birding, birds, Canadian River, Cimarron, field painting, life drawing, marsh wrens, Nature, Oklahoma, painting, rivers, travel, water
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The Best of 2011, A Motmot’s View
1) Best Rediscovered Antique Food: Apples and Cider. If there’s a characteristic product of New England, it’s not maple syrup, it’s apples and cider. In drawing the ruins of cider mills, I obsess over apples, modes of milling them for … Continue reading
