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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: field sketching
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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Over the Cliff with Georgia O’Keeffe
“The cliffs over there, you look at it and it’s almost painted for you, you think until you try”. Georgia O’Keeffe’s beautifully strange formations aren’t necessarily the subjective stylings of a modern artist. I drove past a few round-headed, gray-striped … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure!, Art, Artists, Drawing, field sketching, Nature, painting, plein air, Sketching, teaching, travel
Tagged Abiquiu, art, desert, Georgia O'Keefe, Ghost Ranch, landscape art, Nature, New Mexico, pastels, plein air painting, sketching, Southwest, travel, watercolor
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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
