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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.
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Sightseeing for the Sketchbook Tourist
I like touring with a sketchbook. It requires something from me, the tourist. Drawing becomes an indelible piece of my travel experience, glued by hand into the flapping scrapbook pages of memory. The camera is essential, of course, and catches more images than the sketchbook ever will. I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure!, Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, Diversions, field sketching, figure drawing, Music, Pop culture references, self-indulgence, Sketching, Sounds & Movies, travel, Video clips
Tagged art, Copenhagen, Denmark, drawing, Elsinore Castle, Hamlet, life drawing, Marching Bands, Monty Python, Monty Python theme song, Royal Danish Fife and Drum Corps, sketchbooks, sketching, travel, Urban Sketching, watercolor
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Friday- Feathers or Figures? Feathers.
In a recent post about chestnut-headed oropendolas, I promised to get back to you with better (published) information, and after some searching found The Nesting Habits of Wagler’s Oropendola (Zarhynchus wagleri) On Barro Colorado Island, from the Bulletin of the … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure!, Art, bird art, birding, birds, digiscoping, Drawing, Environment, field sketching, natural history, Nature, Panama, rainforest, Science, Sketching, Stupid Critter Tricks, travel, tropics, Video clips, Wildlife
Tagged art, bird watching, birding, birds, drawing, life drawing, Nature, rainforest, sketching, tropics, Wildlife
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