Common Yellowthroat.

Common Yellowthroat sketch.

Fairchild.

 

 Small drawings I made at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden In Miami.

Beaux Arts Festival of Art.

My next show is in Miami: Beaux Arts Festival of Art
The 62nd Annual Beaux Arts' Festival of Art will take place January 19th through 20th, 2013 on the beautiful grounds of University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. The festival is open each day
from 10 AM to 5 PM.
My booth # 218
 

I sketched these young alligators at 6 Mile Cypress Slough today.

Kimball Arts Festival.

If you are in Utah, please stop by my booth # 145 at Kimball Arts Festival in Park City, Utah.

Location

The Park City Kimball Arts Festival takes place on Park City’s historic Main Street

Festival Hours

Friday, August 3rd 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Saturday, August 4th 9:00 am to 7:00 pm
Sunday, August 5th 9:00 am to 6:00 pm

 

Limber pine sketch I made at Craters of the Moon in Idaho,
on the way to Park City show.

 

Carpenter Bee.

I found this little guy in my frame shop this morning.

Boca Raton Art festival.

I will be exhibiting this coming weekend at the BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART OUTDOOR JURIED ART FESTIVAL in Boca Raton, Florida. I will have on display a number of new etchings that I completed in the last couple of months. I invite you to stop by:
BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART
Outdoor Juried Art Festival
Mizner Park
501 Plaza Real
Boca Raton, FL

Saturday, January 28th, 10:00am - 5:00pm
Sunday, January 29th, 10:00am - 5:00pm

My booth # 194.

Green Heron sketches I did in Green Cay.

Tri-colored Heron sketches. Green Cay.

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.

Cricket.

Sketchbook Project. Nighttime stories.

Last year I participated in Sketchbook Project at Art House Co-op, Brooklyn Art Library.

Now my book "Nighttime stories"
is available for viewing here . Please note that it takes about 20 minutes for the entire book to be uploaded to the site, so if pages aren't showing up, please check back in a bit.
You can find my book in two different ways so far:
1) by going to my profile and then clicking on the Artwork tab.
2) by using the library directory and searching for my name.

Woody Woodpecker

 

During art show in Memorial Park, in Houston, I watched pileated woodpecker for 2 days and I made some photos and sketches. As you can see by color of bill/throat line my woodpecker is a girl. She has black line.
Pileated Woodpecker was the inspiration for the famous cartoon character Woody Woodpecker.
 "The Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) is a very large North American woodpecker, almost crow sized, inhabiting deciduous forests in eastern North America, the Great Lakes, the boreal forests of Canada, and parts of the Pacific coast. It is also the largest woodpecker in America.

Adults (40–49 cm long, 250–350 g mass) are mainly black with a red crest and a white line down the sides of the throat. They show white on the wings in flight. Adult males have a red line from the bill to the throat, in adult females these are black. The only North American birds of similar plumage and size are the Ivory-billed Woodpecker of the Southeastern United States and Cuba, and the related Imperial Woodpecker of Mexico. However, unlike the Pileated, both of those species are extremely rare, if not extinct. Most reports of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker are believed to be erroneous reports of the far more common Pileated.[2] The call is a wild laugh, similar to the Northern Flicker. Its drumming can be very loud, often sounding like someone striking a tree with a hammer. This bird favors mature forests, but has adapted to use second-growth stands and heavily wooded parks as well". Via Wikipedia

 

Fairchild Garden - 2.



Shaving Brush Tree.


 

Baobab and it's seedpod.



Papaya

Pitch Apple.

Cannonball Tree

 ..and some drawings from the garden.


Cannonball Tree Buds





Jack-in-the-box Tree



Wish Tree aka Cluster Fig

Sketchbook.

 Today I shipped my sketchbook to Brooklyn Art Library in NY. It will be a part of The Sketchbook Project and many touring exhibitions.

Sketchbook.

Sketchbook.

I am working on sketches for Jahan songs(album cover). This sketchbook will participate in sketchbook project also.

Craters of the Moon.

Our next stop was in Craters of the Moon.  Last year we camped in Craters, but this year we just stopped there for a day because of our schedule. I love this place. This is one of the strangest and most beautiful landscapes I've ever seen.  

Limber pine - the dominant tree in Craters. 

The scientific name is Pinus flexilis, referring to the flexible small branches. 

You can tie limber pine branches into a knot.

                                                                         Rock wren.

                                                

     Baby rock wren.

 

                                                Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel(?).

                                                                 Blazing Star flowers. 

The ability to grow in this harsh environment means overcoming a lack of moisture, meager soil, and surface temperatures that exceed 150 degrees F.

                                                                          Lava fields.

                                                  Limber pine sketch and a piece of lava.

                                    Just another sketch. 

                                           Limber pine (my favourite) again.

Moss Addiction.

I did show in Vero Beach under the beautiful, shady old live oaks full of spanish moss and ball moss. Some people think it is ugly, but I love to draw moss lace. Ball moss is not a parasite. It is epiphyte: non-parasitic plant living on other plants, like bromeliads, orchids, ferns, and lichens.

Fairchild Botanical Garden.

http://www.fairchildgarden.org/

I was there again and I love it.