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Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls...
(and may fall come to Texas sooner rather than later)
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A couple of old sketchbook pages that I never posted in their “widescreen” entirety. Per Gerard Manley Hopkins:
Glory be to God for dappled things –
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim...
Summer travels sketchbook: Athena and Poseidon duking it out on the pediment of Nashville's Parthenon. The Athens of the South!
Watercolor in w/c field book.
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Summer sketchbook: Spanish-American War Monument, Knoxville. Sepia ink and waterbrush.
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Another teaser illustration from Miracle in the Manger, from Emu Press. Grateful to get to work with Jude Hickel on this little Christmas book.
#Christmas2021
Last faculty exhibition piece, featuring aquatic species of the Frio River. Just too many bugs to write in all the scientific names, so you're on your own there, friend.
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An old on-site sketch I found today: the August Strindberg statue in Stockholm, from an epic Scandinavian trip Laura and I took a few years ago.
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Summer sketchbook: the old Knights of Pythias Lodge (1896) in Glen Rose, currently the visitors' bureau. One of those humid Texas afternoons where you're just trying to keep sweat out of your painting.
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Summer sketchbook: The sloop Friends Good Will at her berth at the Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven. Replica and namesake of an 1810 sloop that participated in the War of 1812 on Lake Michigan.
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#tallship
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#PureMichigan
From the sketchbook of our Midwest travels: Merrill Springs, Madison, WI. Because you never know when you'll suddenly stumble upon WPA construction projects (in this case, a round cistern, courtesy of the Wisconsin Emergency Relief Administration).
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