The weather has been tops lately. I love that it is staying light until 8:30 or so. I’ve been taking advantage and going for bike rides with a sketchbook tucked in the basket. Didn’t get real far this particular evening. I stopped on the golf cart bridge that leads to the ninth green and was […]
Category Archives: Plein Air
work created outdoors
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 […]
Happy Earth Day!
I live in the part of the country that has lush vegetation. Green abounds. However, in the winter, the marsh grass turns a dull gray and our lawns turn a blah tan. The deep woods are more accessible thanks to the deciduous flora that goes dormant. Chiggers take a vacation and sometimes even the mosquitoes […]
Beach Day with my Stillman and Birn Journal
Last month I entered a drawing on Stillman and Birn’s FaceBook page to win one of their hardbound journals that feature 180 lb. watercolor paper. I was one of 10 lucky artists to win 🙂 Two Sundays ago, I had the perfect opportunity to take it for a spin. We treated ourselves to beach chairs […]
Midday Sun
The shoreline of Conesus Lake is littered with cottages and homes. There is hardly any unpopulated land. Our direct view across the lake is teaming with cottages… one mass of buildings, not even room for a tree between them. However, just to the right, there are larger homes and cottonwood trees that grace the shoreline. […]
The Crescent Moon, Venus and Earthshine
Earthshine… what a lovely word! I probably learned it as a youth, but paying attention to science, history and math really wasn’t my thing back then 🙂 Just imagine if illustrated nature journaling was part of my school’s classroom curriculum…. ooh, la, la… what fun it would have been to learn these subjects through art! […]
