http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot notes from the urban wilderness Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:43:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en March, you cruel month, with your allusions to warmer times and intimations of brighter futures, you can not keep me down. You may keep me inside, even strand me there, but I have found a way out, despite having lost all energies for battling snow and wind chills and the ... http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2010/03/04/mar-4/ I have been having people into studio to rummage through my sketches, instead of organizing a bona fide open studio this year. In case anyone is interested, for the time being I have my boxes of preparatory, half-finished or fully finished drawings out and available. Chicken studies, plus details, pen on ... http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2009/12/04/dec-4/ Sketch of a Northern Saw-whet Owl, ink on paper. Many thanks to Dr. Glenn Proudfoot of Vassar College, Christine Guarino, and Luke Tiller for an amazing evening of watching owl banding research in action. For a nice writeup on the experience, see Luke's blog Under Clear Skies. Below, a detail, ... http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2009/11/18/nov-18/ http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2009/11/04/nov-4/ halloween sketches, scratchboard, 8 x 11" http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2009/10/30/oct-30/ http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2009/10/21/oct-21/ The temperature has dropped, seemingly all at once and surprisingly, though in actuality it has been creeping downward rather steadily. I, too, am crawling out of this season, counting days as the hours shorten and bird migration slows, meandering when I might prefer to be beelining. Enough of slow changes ... http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2009/10/13/oct-13/