It’s a good thing this pot of Bloodroot was in my office and I could check it frequently or I may have missed out on the plant’s quick growth! In just eight days seedlings went from barely popping out of the soil to blooming!
Category Archives: Pen Sketches
Meandering Wildflower Walk
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Sketching Birds of Prey
The Center for Birds of Prey out of Charleston, SC put on a great talk for Spring Island. This is the first talk I’ve been to where the birds were allowed to be off the presenter’s arm and on the ground or fly from perch to perch. I was thrilled! The Harris Hawk did need […]
Floral Arrangement Study
Floral Designer / Author John Grady Burns conducted a workshop for Spring Island (my day job as their Director of Arts). This is a quick study of the demo piece he created. Micron pen, watercolor in Stillman & Birn Zeta journal.
Cahill’s Chickens
At last. A chance to sketch chickens! I’d love to keep a couple of chickens in the back yard for the joy of watching them not to mention the eggs. Oh to change zoning laws!
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 […]
