03-21-24-robin |
03-08-24-robin |
03-10-24-sparrow |
03-21-24-daffodils |
03-19-24-grackles |
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 |
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 |
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 |
It's approaching deep summer. Where I live, there is lots of vegetation. So that is what I draw (and try not to grumble about it!). High water this summer has frightened off the waterfowl. So I draw the plants (and light and shadow) instead.
08-02-23-thistle |
08-02-23-bridge |
08-05-23-thicket |
07-23-23-bridge |
09-08-20-balustrade |
08-19-18-heron01 |