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It Was a Temptation

Few bird species are as iconic as the Northern Cardinal. Our love-affair with the Cardinal has a long history and has been used to help advance the goals of conservation. In 1903 Gene Stratton Porter published The Song of the Cardinal. Her plucky hero and heroine were a pair of newly mated birds keeping house…

Beautiful Spring Brook

There was a struggling American Plum in my mother’s front yard. It was trapped by pines, and every year it would hang low enough to scratch the top of the cars backing out of the driveway. Sadly, the plum’s been removed. But in its last spring, I brought a flowering branch home to do some…

Colored Pencil on Drafting Film

When I’m asked about my artistic process, I usually start with the unique substrate I use. I learned to illustrate on drafting film from artist Susan Rubin in her classes at the Denver Botanic Gardens. Susan creates beautiful botanical paintings on this surface. I’ve been using it for almost 10 years to illustrate birds and…

Fine-tuning

Working with a lens helps me fine tune the details. This piece is almost ready for cleaning, masking and layering.

Wrapping up November

It’s time to put fall to bed and prepare for winter. We’ve stored the lawn furniture and emptied the flower pots. The hoses are unhooked, the taps insulated. The garden is tidy, and the flower beds weeded. We’re ready to slow down, tuck in, and open ourselves to quieter, shorter days. The leaves changed unevenly…

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