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 […]
Category Archives: Birds
Slipping in a Journal Page
Life is happening a warp speed, but I managed to document our shared Sunday off 🙂 Initial page was created in pencil, then added watercolor and daily notes later in the day. It wasn’t until I shared this image on FB the other day that I noticed I put the wrong date down…. Now […]
Fast Sketching at a Rookery
The rookery on Spring Island is humming, or should I say, clacking right along. When I arrived all I could hear was the clacking of the Wood Storks bills. They decorated the tops of the trees while nesting egrets were sprinkled in the lower vegetation. Please forgive the poor quality of my sketch images. I […]
Beaching It…. Again!
I don’t mean to flaunt 🙂 Actually for someone who only lives 15 miles from the beach, this is only the fourth time we’ve been this year! Very sad, really! This spread is the second in my new Stillman & Birn hardbound, Beta Series journal. I’ve officially decided to designate it for all things water […]
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 […]
Black-crowned Night Heron Juvi
click to enlarge It was a sunny, crisp morning. The wind kicked up a bit and the dogs were frisky in the cooler temps. On the way back from our morning walk I spotted five Great Egrets and a couple of Black-crowned Night Heron juvi’s roosting in the trees along the pond near our home. […]
