Ideas and Explorations

Snippets of creative adventures, from sketchbooks to dry-erase boards, via Instagram.

 
Last of the Lopez Island posts: sitting on the sand spit, admiring the neighboring Frost Island. #ExperienceLopez #FrostIsland #watercolorlandscapes
More sketches from the summer campout at Lopez Island. Bird and plant discoveries near Iceberg Point!
Spent a delightful week camping on Lopez Island, in the San Juan island chain that bumps up against the Washington/British Columbia border. Sketches from the first day: cormorants at the dock, scenery from the ferry, and juicy blackberries ashore.
I have way too many spare copies of my old Wildflower Festival and Mushroom Festival posters. Want one? Let me know!
It has been a summer with lots of much-needed gooding off. But I did paint some rocks with the neighborhood kids this month. 🎨
Quick visit to Portland last weekend, where we got to enjoy the Roots of Wisdom traveling exhibition which we built at OMSI. I really enjoyed doing the digital painting of the waterfall for the lamprey interactive, back in the day!
Cloudspotting project has spanned the extremes recently.
Deception Pass, watercolors at North Beach
First camping trip of the year is a wrap! It rained 80% of the trip, but cleared up in time for a stunning moonrise.
This week in cloudspotting.
Many of my zoo projects focused on building empathy for wildlife, on the theory that folks are more inclined to take conservation action when they can picture the situation from an animal's point of view. A big part of @WoodlandParkZoo's au
Spring weather changes on a dime, doesn't it? Here are a few more sky observations from my work desk. Loving how the water-soluble pastels can catch the impressions so quickly. #cloudwatching #UrbanSketching
The grizzly bear exhibit at @WoodlandParkZoo has always been a big draw. This interpretive panel that I worked on aims to clarify the difference between black bears and grizzly bears—and goes on to talk about how we can take steps to safely coe
Lunchtime cloudspotting.
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