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Exploring the natural world with pencil and paper from high atop a one-story bungalow in the middle of Oklahoma.
Category Archives: Drawing
Friday Sketchbook: Hans Christian Andersen Slept Here
Magasin du Nord in Copenhagen is Denmark’s oldest department store, founded in 1870. They have the best scarf selection in town (my opinion), their housewares floor is a near-museum of Danish design, and their basement’s a wonderland of fancy foodstuffs. But 144 years ago, Magasin du Nord was Hotel du … Continue reading
Posted in Copenhagen, Culture, Denmark, Diversions, Drawing, Exhibits, history, literature, museums, Shopping!, Sketching, travel, urban sketching
Tagged Christmas shopping, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Museums, Danish design, Danish Literature, Denmark, Fairy Tales, great artists, Hans Christian Andersen, Hotel du Nord, Magasin du Nord, sketchbooks
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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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Sketch of the Day: A Fountain in Paris
Posted in Animals, architecture, Art, Culture, Drawing, Science, Sketching, urban sketching
Tagged art, Cuvier, France, French street life, motor scooters, natural history, Paris fountains, travel, Urban Sketching
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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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Friday Sketchbook: No More Opera for Okapis
While we drew the okapis today at the Copenhagen zoo, my friend told me a startling story. Okapis are rare African forest-dwelling relatives of the giraffe and sensitive animals. Very sensitive. Twenty years ago the Royal Theatre staged a performance at the … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure!, Animals, Art, Copenhagen, Culture, Denmark, Diversions, Drawing, Exhibits, mammals, Music, Nature, Pop culture references, Sketching, Watercolor, Wildlife, Zoo Sketching
Tagged baby hippopotamus, Chimpanzee, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Zoo, Denmark, natural history, Okapi, Opera, Rhinoceros, Tannhauser, Wagner, watercolor, Wildlife
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