Lichen, magnified (detail) Watercolor on paper This painting has just been featured by Saatchi Online Gallery, in a curated collection called “Last Days of Summer” It’s one of those discovery paintings, fun from start to finish. I picked up a twig...
Three days in July: a garden sample of insects and other arthropods Gouache on plaster Each spent just a few minutes in my glass jar, while I quickly painted– California Lady-beetle Blue Milkweed Beetle Ant Honey Bee Goldenrod Crab Spider Skipper moth Pillbug, 2...
My offering for this year’s Art of Nature show at Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History includes this mixed media piece: Somersaulting Hydra Pen and ink, watercolor, digital media; October 2012 The tiny freshwater hydra is green because it hosts photosynthetic...
Picture me peering into a microscope and counting 0.1 mm star-shaped hairs… amazing “stellate trichomes.” And handling fragile dried plants with care. While in residence at the Bishop Museum’s Herbarium Pacificum in Honolulu, HI a few years...
Always inspiring (humbling!) to look way, way back, as I work at my desk with a pen and microscope. From the late 1600’s: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/012345/full/news.2010.689/slideshow I wish I could see this collection in person! Martin Lister’s...
On a sunny day at Pepperwood Preserve in Sonoma County, students– new naturalists– spoke of seed banks and fire cycles in the chapparal, birds’ feet, native bees and flowers that change color, grasses which do and don’t belong here, leaf...
