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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: garden
Catfish Weather and Voodoo Lilies
We’ve had two feet of rain this month. Yesterday, an early morning storm arrived with a tornado warning that sent me and Gizmo splashing down into our flooded basement. Our yard may be squishy, but some of our neighbors could raise catfish on their lawns. That’s a real … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure!, garden, Nature, Oklahoma Weather, plants
Tagged botany, catfish, Dracunculus vulgaris, floods, gardens, natural history, Oklahoma, rain, severe weather, strange plants, Voodoo Lily, weather
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Sketch of the Day: Four Days,Two Gardens, One Paris
Posted in Adventure!, architecture, Art, birds, Culture, Diversions, Drawing, garden, history, museums, plein air, Sculpture, travel, Urban Nature, urban sketching, Watercolor
Tagged art, birds, black-headed gulls, drawing, France, gardening, Jardin des Plantes, Jardin des Tuileries, natural history, Paris, rose-ringed parakeets, Seine, travel, Urban Sketching, watercolor, wood pigeons
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Copenhagen Culture Night, and an unrelated Paris question
Still recovering from Copenhagen’s Culture Night (Friday) and have no sketches to show for it, although it was fun surfing the tide of humanity in and out of concerts, Danish military drills, museums, 12th century ruins under a palace, the halls of power at the Danish Parliament (think: … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure!, architecture, Art, Artists, Copenhagen, Culture, Denmark, Diversions, Exhibits, Family, garden, museums, Music, Politics, Pop culture references, Sculpture, self-indulgence, Sketching, travel, urban sketching
Tagged art, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Botanical Garden, Copenhagen Culture Night, Danish Parliament, Denmark, France, Paris, sketching, Urban Sketching
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Sketch of the Day: Birds and Botany
Step through the gates of the Copenhagen Botanical Garden and the city vanishes; it’s quiet, serene. A great collection of plants from around the world; a green hulk that looked like a woolly mammoth garbed in lace cap flowers was Hydrangea aspera ssp. sargentiana. The … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, Art, bird art, birding, birds, Copenhagen, Culture, Denmark, Drawing, Environment, field sketching, Flowers, garden, natural history, Nature, Urban Nature, Wildlife
Tagged art, bird art, bird watching, birds, Botanical Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark, drawing, European Robin, Fall fruiting plants, gardening, Hooded Crow, Hydrangea, life drawing, Magpie, migration, natural history, sketchbooks, Urban Wildlife, Victorian Greenhouse, Wildlife, Wood pigeon
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Sketch of the Day: Rainy, with a twist of sun
Posted in architecture, Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, Drawing, Environment, garden, Nature, Sketching, Urban Nature, urban sketching, Weather
Tagged Agave, art, botany, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Botanical Garden, Danish weather, Denmark, drawing, gardening, gardens, Nature, plein air painting, public gardens, rainy days, sketchbooks, Urban Sketching, watercolor
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Exhibit: Drawing From the Tropics, April 17 to May 29, 2014
My tropical paintings and drawings are now on display- available for purchase- in the gallery space of the Crystal Bridge Tropical Conservatory, as part of the Myriad Botanical Gardens Fine Art Series. I can’t say enough about this exotic jungle under glass, except … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, Art, Artists, Drawing, Environment, Exhibits, field sketching, garden, museums, natural history, Nature, Oklahoma, Pastel, plein air, rainforest, Shopping!, tropics
Tagged Amazon, art, butterflies, drawing, Exhibits, gardening, natural history, Nature, oil painting, Oklahoma, orchids, pastels, plants, plein air painting, rainforest, Science, travel, tropics
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Drawing Orchids, Wanting So Much More
This week I did something I knew I would regret. I fell for an orchid. Ant Man’s favorite expression,”Ever desiring, ever desirous” sounds a little redundant, but he claims it’s from the Tao Te Ching. ( he uses it on me whenever … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art materials, Artists, Drawing, garden, Nature, Oklahoma, plein air, rainforest, Science, self-indulgence, Shopping!, Sketching, tropics
Tagged art, drawing, gardening, houseplants, Nature, obsession, Oklahoma, orchids, rainforest, Science, sketching, tropics
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