I used to mount plant specimens at an herbarium, and I miss it. And I want some mounted specimens of my own. I collected, pressed, and mounted some simple garden finds: camellia cuttings, and several smaller plants like dandelions, miner’s lettuce, and clover....
My notes read: “liquid amber eyes.” It’s the first thing I notice, standing face to beak with an emu, as it approaches to look me over. Neat biological things I note too, in my sketchbook– things that make this specifically an emu and not...
Bare branches, a feather, mud and daffodils. I love winter sketching with boots on. Oak tree, Laguna de Santa Rosa, colored pencil Apple tree in February Great-horned owl feather, colored pencil and watercolor Daffodils! Daffodil...
January studies & sketches… Never underestimate mud, or your own curiosity. (Feeling like a little kid today) What’s under the woodpile? Salamanders, 1 worm, slugs and snails, a centipede, 2 roly-polies (one is blue) and a ladybug. Impossibly pink...
It started with the intriguing sentence “teach what you know”…. I love working in pen and ink. No gray areas, just black and white, simple tools and lots of decisive marks. No erasing. But, how would I teach pen and ink? After copious notes and...
Arborophila torqueola (hill partridge) Pyrus pashia (wild Himalayan pear) Illustration by K Anandakuttan Highlighting the Himalayas: a “biodiversity hotspot”, meeting a high threshold of unique life (more than 1,500 endemic plant species), and...
