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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.
Tag Archives: Nature
Friday Feathers- slaty-tailed trogons, masked tityras, and one big, beautiful fly
First day out of the box on the island and we had birds, thunderstorms, and a gorgeous huge tropical fly caught by researchers (and released unharmed). The birds were very cool but the bugs, oh my, the bugs. And now, … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure!, Art, bird art, birding, birds, Diversions, Drawing, field sketching, Nature, nature journaling, Panama, plein air, rainforest, Science, self-indulgence, Sketching, Sounds & Movies, Stupid Critter Tricks, travel, tropics, Wildlife
Tagged art, big tropical bugs, bird watching, birding, birds, drawing, entomology, insects, life drawing, Nature, rainforest, Science, sketchbooks, sketching, tropics, watercolor, Wildlife
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Back in the tropics, with paint
Arrived on the morning boat from Gamboa yesterday morning, after a long day’s travel from Oklahoma which included an unscheduled landing in Cartagena, Colombia (my seat mate looked at the in-flight magazine and said thoughtfully, “American doesn’t actually fly to … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure!, Art, bird art, birding, Drawing, Environment, field sketching, Nature, painting, Panama, plein air, rainforest, Sketching, travel, tropics, Wildlife
Tagged art, bird watching, birding, birds, drawing, life drawing, Nature, painting, plein air painting, rainforest, sketchbooks, sketching, travel, tropics, watercolor, Wildlife
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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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