Tag Archives: backyard wildlife

Avoiding the Photographer, Not So Cleverly Hidden

watercolor of deer in my back yard

I welcomed 2022 with a new painting, “Avoiding the Photographer”. The girls—two does from the small herd that lives in our back yards—were hiding behind my scruffy little hemlock while I was hovering around in the snow in the back yard trying to get their photo on a snowy, sunny morning the previous February. It’s […]

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January Nature Desktop Calendar: Avoiding the Photographer

Desktop calendar, 1280 x 1024 for square and laptop monitors.

I’m welcoming the New Year with a new painting, “Avoiding the Photographer”! I think that’s an accurate title since the girls were hiding behind my scruffy little hemlock while I was hovering around in the snow in the back yard trying to get their photo this past February 2021. It’s a watercolor, about 12″ x […]

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February 2020 Personal Creative Challenge, Day 18: Curious Fawn

pastel painting of fawn in shade

I’m back to a painting for this day of my creative challenge. For this painting I once again used self-prepared smooth deep charcoal matboard coated with my favorite transparent pastel ground, Golden Acrylic Ground for Pastels, so that I would start with a dark background. I painted it without any guidelines, just hitting the surface […]

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