Category: graphite drawing
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Catsoul
Posted by request…there is more, but this is enough for now. Catsoul is vast and mysterious, containing domestic cats as well as the little fierce wild ones, the great lions and panthers, and the ancient sabertooths and their ancestors. It is the tabby kitten curled up on a pillow, the starving stray waiting on the…
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Tree Book #3: Island Oak
Two views of the same ancient Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) from Nags Head Woods on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. A third view would have completed the circle and showed the jagged blades of wood in the hollow trunk, but it was impossible to get a photo from that direction, since the tree is growing next to a swamp thicket.…
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Tree Book: Childhood Roots and Miniature Branches
Two more Tree Book pencil drawings: On the left is Petrophytum caespitosum, Rockmat or Dwarf Spiraea. It’s essentially a miniature tree, only about six inches tall. It is primarily a Rocky Mountain plant, rare in southern Arizona, where it is restricted to ridgetop outcrops of pure limestone and marble in the Huachuca, Whetstone, and Empire Mountains. The…
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A Book of Trees in a Dream
I have always wanted to write an illustrated natural history book. It began long ago, when I began to see scientific illustration as more than just an old-fashioned art form, and started to work on it as a spiritual practice. Science. Nature. Art. Spirit. For me there is no division between these things, although Science typically argues otherwise,…
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Pencil Drawings
I’ve been returning to pencil drawing as a way to reconnect with my artistic roots and to accumulate drawings for a special project. I always liked the detail and soft, warm gray of graphite drawings, but didn’t really get interested in this medium (other than sketching for ink or watercolor drawings) until I was in college…
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