After Ice Storm Photos.

Michigan Summer.

Deer near our house.

Grosbeaks on my feeder.



New ex libris (etching) for Sarah Kosel.

Bayou City Art festival.

If you are in Houston this weekend go to Bayou City Art festival and stop by my booth #52 to see my new artwork!

New ex libris I made for Elsa Castillo Baez.
 It is etching/aquatint on copper.

Lake and Ojārs Vācietis Poem.

Te nu mēs esam.

Debess no perlamutra,
tā ir tā gliemežnīca,
kas pāri.

Bezvēja nopulēts
ezers.

Un te mums ir jākļūst
par pērlēm.

Ojārs Vācietis

Ligo, Jāņi...Happy Summer Solstice and Midsummer!

Our Ligo bonfire this year.

Early Spring.

We are having a very early spring here in Michigan this year: record temps with 40 degrees above normal last week.

Sanibel Island.

Florida Swamps and Birds.

Canoeing at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge

Blue Heron on the nest

Common Gallinule

Tri-colored Heron

Sora Rail

Downtown Dunedin Art Festival.

15th Annual Downtown Dunedin Art Festival             

January 14th & 15th, 2012

Saturday & Sunday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Free Admission

Main Street in Downtown Dunedin, FL - my next show in Florida.

While in Miami, after Beaux Art Show, I spent 3 lovely days at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, one of my favorite places. I love to draw there.

Beaux Art Festival.

If you are in Miami stop by my booh #19 at Beaux Art Festival
The 61st Annual Beaux Arts' Festival of Art will take place January 7th & 8th, 2012 on the beautiful grounds of University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. The festival is open each day from 10 AM to 5 PM.

"Feathers", drawing.

First Frost.

Drops.

Plate of new etching, still covered with ground.

Olympic National Park.

Ferry.

After Bellevue show we made a short trip to Olympic National Park. We took ferry from Edmonds to Kingston and then drove to Hoh Rain Forest through Port Angeles and Forks. This forest is magical, it reminds me forests from Russian Fairy tales where Baba Yaga lives.  Many of the big trees are over 2 hundred feet tall, their tops are in an upper atmosphere . Unlike tropical rain forest this forest is coniferous: Sitka spruce with sharp needles , Western hemlock with drooping top, Douglas-fir with thick deeply furrowed bark. Lush beards of hanging mosses are attached to boughs but feed only on air and light.

Puget Sound.

Driving on water:)

The temperate rain forest is dominated by Sitka spruce.

High rainfall, fog and ocean moderated temperatures
create optimum growing conditions for these monarchs.
This is one of the largest Sitka spruce in USA:
height over 270 feet, diameter over 12.5 feet, age over 500 years.

Sitka spruce.



Hoh Rain Forest.



Bellevue Arts Museum Art Fair.

New ex libris, etching. This is first state trial proof
I did not decide about name yet, maybe
Sea Heart or Oceanologist Heart,
or  Marine Biologist Heart?

Bellevue Arts Museum Art Fair this weekend!
July 29, 30 & 31

Friday & Saturday: 9:30am - 9:30pm, Sunday: 9:30am - 6pm
At Bellevue Square and Bellevue Arts Museum
My booth Q-18

Second state trial proof of the same plate.
Second state proof means that after first etch
 I worked more on the plate
and etched it for a second time.

Everglades.

American alligator - alligator mississippiensis
el lagarte(Spanish) = "the lizard"
mississippiensis = "of Mississippi"

Tanning fingers.

Cannonball Tree

 ..and some drawings from the garden.


Cannonball Tree Buds





Jack-in-the-box Tree



Wish Tree aka Cluster Fig

Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden.

 Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden.