Search
About the Motmot
Exploring the natural world with pencil and paper from high atop a one-story bungalow in the middle of Oklahoma.
Tag Archives: pastels
2015 flutters to a landing
It was a year when plein air painting got a lot more fun, which I think is worth noting, and when I found new beauty in old and familiar places. I had a decent year of painting, exhibiting, teaching, drawing, writing, and learning how to breathe … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure!, Animals, Art, bird art, birds, Drawing, natural history, Nature, plein air painting, self-indulgence, Sound clips, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Tagged bird art, birds, drawing, life in review, Nature, New Year's Resolutions, pastels, pensive ruminations, plein air painting, sketching
4 Comments
Pastel Gallery is up and running
For anyone who’d like to see more of the Fall Pastel Collection from last week’s California run, the page is up and running. I was generously hosted by the Elkhorn Slough Foundation and Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, who … Continue reading
Soul Food for the Dark Times
We’ve fallen into Dark Times here in Denmark. It’s dark now at around 4 pm, and in midday the sun is so low in the gray sky there’s not much light seeping through the windows anyway. I was warned about the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Copenhagen, Culture, Danish Food, Denmark, Diversions, Food, painting, Pastel, Pop culture references, Still Life
Tagged art, Copenhagen, Danish food, Denmark, Nyhavn, pastels, Rugbrød, Scandinavian winter, smoked herring, smorrebrød, Still life
5 Comments
Art of the Day: I Must Be Hungry
Posted in Copenhagen, Culture, Denmark, Diversions, Food, Pastel, self-indulgence, Shopping!, Still Life
Tagged art, Copenhagen, Denmark, Food and Drink, pastels
Leave a comment
Art of the Day: Still Life with Akvavit
Posted in Art, Copenhagen, Culture, Denmark, Diversions, Food, Pastel, self-indulgence, Shopping!, Still Life, travel
Tagged Akvavit, art, Copenhagen, Denmark, food, groceries, pastels, Still life, Torvehallerne
2 Comments
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
Leave a comment
August, Osage County, Tallgrass Prairie Preserve
With singing dickcissels every fifteen feet (it seemed), giant swallowtails (Papilio cresphontes) flapping over blooming ironweed, and goldenrod pushing up through clumps of big bluestem- and where off in the shade bison rested, the bulls getting itchy, ready to rut- … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure!, Art, Artists, Cowboys, Drawing, field sketching, mammals, natural history, Nature, Oklahoma, painting, Pastel, plein air, Sketching, Wildlife
Tagged art, bison, dickcissel, drawing, ironweed, landscape art, life drawing, natural history, Nature, Oklahoma, pastels, tallgrass prairie, Wildlife
11 Comments
