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About the Motmot
Exploring the natural world with pencil and paper from high atop a one-story bungalow in the middle of Oklahoma.
Category Archives: birding
What do Toucans Really Think?
Morning ritual in Panama: take coffee cup to the chair at the back door landing, open the sketchbook, raise the binoculars. The forest patch behind the house looks like a life-sized diorama of a jungle scene. A Nance tree blooms right outside … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure!, Animals, Art, birding, Diversions, Drawing, Environment, field sketching, life drawing, natural history, Nature, Panama, rainforest, random speculation, tropics, Wildlife
Tagged animal behavior, art, bird watching, drawing, fieldsketches, life drawing, Panama, rainforest, sketching, Toucans, travel, tropics, Wildlife
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Earth Day with the Motmot
Greetings from Gamboa, Panama. Ant Man and I rented a house for six weeks on a hill above the Panama Canal, with a view of cecropia and palms and fruiting miconia trees attracting every known tropical and neotropical bird that’s … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure!, Animals, architecture, Art, bird art, birding, birds, Boats, Drawing, Environment, field sketching, life drawing, natural history, Nature, Panama, plein air, rainforest, Scope sketching, travel, tropics, Watercolor, Wildlife
Tagged architecture, birds, Earth Day 2016, Gamboa, motmot, Panama, Panama Canal, sciart, sketching, tropical ecology
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Sketch of the Day: Sunrise on a Spanish Marsh
Posted in Art, bird art, birding, birds, Environment, field sketching, landscapes, natural history, travel, Watercolor
Tagged birds of Spain, Doñana National Park, European goldfinch, life drawing, marshes, natural history, Nature, red kite, sketchbooks, Spain, Spanish birding, Urban Sketching, Wetlands, Wildlife
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Sketches From Spain: A Few Thanksgiving Birds
The rain in Spain falls mainly on Sevilla at the moment, where Antman is giving a talk and I am enjoying a few quiet moments of reflection and gratitude on Thanksgiving Day. I’m thankful for our four-month Danish adventure and for family and good … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure!, Art, bird art, birding, birds, Culture, Drawing, field sketching, Food, Nature, plein air, Scope sketching, Sketching, travel, Watercolor, Wildlife
Tagged bird art, birding, Doñana National Park, European goldfinch, Nature, red kite, sketchbooks, Spain, spotless starlings, stonechat, white stork, Wildlife
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Sketches From Spain
Posted in Adventure!, Animals, Art, birding, birds, Drawing, Environment, field sketching, landscapes, Livestock, mammals, natural history, Nature, plein air, Scope sketching, travel, Watercolor, Wildlife
Tagged birds, cork oak, Doñana National Park, flamingo, landscape art, natural history, Nature, plants, plein air painting, Spain, Spanish National Parks, stork nests, travel, trees, White storks, wild horses, Wildlife
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Friday Sketchbook: Birding in Danish
Getting out with Danish birders is delightful even if you don’t speak Danish. Birding is an international language, anyway; just watching and listening will get you pretty far. Many Danes speak quite a bit of English, too. When that fails, there’s always … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure!, Animals, Art, bird art, birding, birds, Copenhagen, Culture, Denmark, Drawing, field sketching, natural history, Nature, Sketching, travel, Wildlife
Tagged bird watching, common buzzard, Danish birders, Danish birding, Danish Ornithological Society, Denmark, language, Lapwings, natural history, pied wagtail, red kite, reed bunting, sketchbooks, white-tailed eagle, Wildlife
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