Back view of a Wood Stork tending eggs in its nest. I treated myself and spent the good part of last Saturday at the rookery on Spring Island. I arrived at 11 a.m. and didn’t leave until 4 p.m.! I toted my birding scope and camp stool to a wonderfully shady spot and set up […]
Category Archives: Anhinga
Rookery Snippets
On May 14th, I spent about an hour at the rookery sketching while looking through my birding scope and a lot of time just observing the Wood Storks, Great Egrets and Anhinga. I witnessed storks on the ground playing tug-a-war with a large stick. The winner flew off with it, landed in a large pine […]
Biking and Sketching in Sea Pines
It was a beauty of a day in the low country. Rob and I took our bikes into Sea Pines Plantation on Hilton Head Island. Sea Pines is a large resort and residential plantation at the south end of the island. Charles Fraser, a real estate developer, transformed HHI with the creation of Sea Pines, […]
Anhinga Study – Playing With Brush Pens
click to enlarge I so love using minimal brush strokes to capture waterbirds. The Anhinga, or Snake Bird, is one of my favorites. It’s very calligraphic and begs to be sketched with a brush. I was looking through my old sketchbooks the other day and ran across this demo I did during a workshop. The […]
