I've just published my 2023 Observations in five A-5 size paperbacks. They are organized by quarter with an additional book that sums up the entire year. They are available here. Prices: $15-18 USD |
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
2023 Observations books available to order
Friday, March 22, 2024
Friday, January 19, 2024
Icicles
Friday, January 12, 2024
Tangles
Friday, December 29, 2023
The Bridge
Sunday, December 17, 2023
Colored Paper
Looks like a stained glass window! I have different piles of paper in my studio. I try to not discriminate too much. These are on colored copier paper which will fade to pale earthy tones if they spend too much time in the sun. I had fun. I hope you enjoy them.
11-07-23-coreopsis01 ink, charcoal |
11-09-23-sparrow ink |
11-10-23-swans02 pastel |
11-27-23-island02 watercolor |
11-28-23-island03 watercolor |
11-20-23-goose charcoal, ink |
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Monday, October 16, 2023
A Year of Swans
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Hello Autumn
Rains have come, the river is high and fast and the ducks and herons are staying far away. The cattails are beginning to bend and bunch together. It must be tiring standing up all summer long!
The mallows are drying up. I'll draw the seed pods in January. Right now, I'll content myself with drawing the cheerful, bright yellow Coreopsis flowers along the river bank. I think they are the last hurrah before a final trumpet blast of fall foliage. Then the drenching cold rain and wind can come and strip it all away.
In the winter I will pore over my drawings from warmer and sunnier days and think of next year.
09-22-23-flower |
09-07-23-flowers |
08-01-23-mallow |
09-21-23-flowers |
Saturday, September 2, 2023
Students Island, Aug. 2023
Here are a few sketchbook pages from a trip to the Maine woods last week. Students Island is a short paddle on Mooselookmeguntic Lake from the headquarters of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Preserve in Oquossoc, Maine.
We spent three nights roughing it and cooking over a campfire. Wildlife highlights included seeing at close range a family of mergansers chasing down and feeding on silvery minnows flashing in the afternoon sun. There were loons, cormorants, sandpipers and bald eagles. No moose but the red squirrels serenaded us in camp and as we hiked around the island. —We have our campsite reserved for next year :)
08-27-23-studentsisland05 |
08-27-23-studentsisland03 |
08-27-23-studentsisland06 |
08-29-23-studentsisland01 |
08-28-23-studentsisland01 |
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I saw a few mountains when I was out in Jackson, Wyoming a few weeks ago. I could draw there for weeks on end. The scenery is spectacular a...