Category: Uncategorized
-
How to Draw Fire
The title phrase has shown up in my blog stats every day for about a year. What does fire look like? Regardless of the art medium or style that you are using, you need to be familiar with what fire looks like and how it behaves. Here’s the photo gallery at wildlandfire.com, the ultimate online…
-
Healing Impy
Impy, our seven year old “Black Cat #1” , got very sick a couple of weeks ago. He has already used up several of his nine lives – he was a rescued stray who had lived outside for several months before we trapped him in 2003. He arrived with an abscessed bite wound on his shoulder that needed surgery, and…
-
Lepidolite Shisha Mirror
Here’s an experiment with shisha mirror embroidery, since I want to use it in several projects. Instead of the usual glass mirrors, I tried a thinner version cut from a sheet of polished aluminum that was left over from one of our tubular skylight installations. It’s easier to work with than glass, and I can cut it to any size or shape. In the…
-
Rainbow Bloom
We hiked in Bisbee on Sunday and came across this Arizona Rainbow Cactus (Echinocereus pectinatus var. rigidissimus) in full bloom. These small cacti are common on rocky slopes in desert grassland and oak woodland. They only bloom for a day, and this is only the second time I’ve seen one in full flower. The cactus in…
-
Nature Book Review #1: The Great Cacti
First in an occasional series of natural history book reviews. Books reviewed here can be purchased through Amazon.com by following the links from my Southern Arizona Desert Botany homepage. THE GREAT CACTI: ETHNOBOTANY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY, by David Yetman, 2007. University of Arizona Press, 297 pages, hardbound. This beautiful book contains photos and descriptions of more than 100 species of giant…
MINERALARTS: 