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Exploring the natural world with pencil and paper from high atop a one-story bungalow in the middle of Oklahoma.
Tag Archives: sketchbooks
Bird Work, Bird Art, Bird Play
Writing goes and goes. I’m still in Panama, working on a chapter about raptors. Which sounds straightforward until I figured out that raptors, for me, are not so much about their biology as their cultural and personal meaning. What, after all, could be more allegorical than a eagle? Or … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, bird art, birds, Culture, Diversions, field sketching, life drawing, natural history, Watercolor, Wildlife, Writing
Tagged antbirds, art, bird art, birds, birds of prey, caracara, Denmark, drawing, jacana, natural history, Nature, rainforest, raptors, sketchbooks, tropicalbirds, watercolor, Wildlife, Writing
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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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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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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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Sketch of the Day: A Slice of Noma, Well Chilled
Posted in Adventure!, architecture, Art, Boats, Copenhagen, Culture, Denmark, Diversions, Drawing, Food, landscapes, random speculation, Sketching, travel, urban sketching, Watercolor
Tagged art, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Harbor, Danish Health Scares, Denmark, landscape art, New Nordic Cuisine, Noma Restaurant, Nyhavn, sketchbooks, Urban Sketching, watercolor, World's Greatest Restaurant
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