Olive seashells, mixed media: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite Today I demonstrated my favorite mixed-media sketching technique for a group of visitors at my open studio (Art at the Source, Sebastopol, CA). Olive seashells, the perfect example of “the...
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...
The other day I was asked about my process for “Giant Pacific Octopus,” a printed digital painting hanging in an exhibit. It has been in several shows over the past few years (Illustrating Nature, Santa Cruz; “A Closer Look at Wild Things,”...
Mixed media sketch of three nests, April 2012 Left to right they are: unidentified (help anyone? found in a grassy wetland/orchard woodland habitat here in West Sonoma County; 3- 4 inches across); Common yellowthroat ; hummingbird (these two are specimens from the...
Mixed media sketch from earlier today, from the bluff above Gleason Beach in Sonoma County. The highway runs between the fence and the bluff… Erosion! This is a great wildflower moment along the Sonoma Coast, ground irises happening and lupine beginning. Must do...
Mud, salamanders & invertebrates…tiny eggs and sprouting seeds, decomposing plants. An orange centipede, ruby red ladybug beetle, slugs, snails, and one bright blue “roly-poly”– April 2012
