Out Sketching. Mosquito Loop. Part 1. Discovery on a Dirt Road
Star Puffball (Calvatia sculpta) We follow the Mosquito Loop road around the meadow that’s [...]
Painting with Water Media Q & A: Practice Brush Strokes
Death Valley Moon [...]
Cherish the Earth. Gratitude.
Blue Lake inlet, Warner Mountains CA The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. [...]
Out Sketching. Painting En Plein Air. Part 5. Looking at Landscape Paintings
Great Basin Valley South of Ely, Nevada In my four previous Blogs, I discussed [...]
Out Sketching. En Plein Air. Part 4. Useful Techniques
Great Basin Valley South of Ely, Nevada Part 4.Useful Techniques Last week’s Blog described [...]
Out Sketching. Painting En Plein Air. Part 3. In Spite of Ticks and Other Annoyances
Great Basin Valley South of Ely, Nevada Part 3. In Spite of Ticks and Other [...]
Out Sketching. Painting En Plein Air. Part 2. Tips and Useful Techniques
Great Basin Valley South of Ely, Nevada Art Show dates extended: Sixteen paintings from The [...]
Out Sketching: Painting En Plein Air: Tools, Tips, Ticks, and Murphy
Great Basin Valley South of Ely, NV Part 1. Supplies My memoir, The Road [...]
Cherish the Earth. A Litany of Color. Part 2. Something Beautiful to Cherish
River of Golden Aspen See this watercolor painting at my Art Show, Oct. 3-30, 2017 Bell [...]
Cherish the Earth. A Litany of Color. Part 1. Fall Has Begun in Minnesota
River of Golden Aspen, near Gunnison CO See this watercolor painting at my Art Show, Oct. [...]
Nature Notes. A Rare Tree. Part 3. An Uncommon Pine Tree
Photo: Lightning Scar on Ponderosa Pine Tree From the files of Donald R. Kirk: [...]
Nature Notes. A Rare Tree. Part 2. Lightning Scars
Photo: Lightning Scar on Ponderosa Pine Tree From the files of Donald R. Kirk: Part [...]
Nature Notes. A Rare Tree. Part 1. Storm in the Night
Photo: Lightning Scar on Ponderosa Pine Tree From the files of Donald R. Kirk... [...]
Cherish the Earth. Hurray for Green Plants!
Green growing plants keep us alive. They are our neighbors, our plant communities. Do you [...]
Nature Notes. Three Bird Nests. Part 3. Camouflaged Dark-eyed Junco Nest.
From the files of Donald R. Kirk: In my last 2 postings I told about [...]
Nature Notes. Three Bird Nests. Part 2. Feeding a Western Wood Peewee
From the files of Donald R. Kirk: After photographing a tree swallow feeding its young [...]
Nature Notes. Three Bird Nests. Part 1. An Angry Tree Swallow
From the files of Donald R. Kirk: An angry tree swallow dives at my head. [...]
Out Sketching. Flow Patterns. Part 2. What to Look For
Part 2. My last posting related how I first became aware of flow patterns in [...]
Out Sketching: Flow Patterns. Part 1. What Are Flow Patterns?
Nature is full of visual patterns, which might be defined as “visible regularities of form” [...]
Nature Notes. Go Fishing, Find a Badger. Part 3. Watching the Badger
From the files of Donald R. Kirk: Part 3. Watching the Badger Eight or ten [...]
Nature Notes. Go Fishing, Find a Badger. Part 2. The Badger
From the files of Donald R. Kirk: Part 2. The Badger ...From the corner of [...]
Nature Notes. Go Fishing, Find a Badger. Part 1. Fishing is Good
From the files of Donald R. Kirk: Some people go fishing to get out of [...]
Cherish the Earth. It’s All About Love
I love the Great Outdoors, and it happened on an extended camping trip when [...]
Nature Notes. The Great Gray Owl. Part 3. The Owl
From the files of Donald R. Kirk... Part 3. The Great Gray Owl ...The huge [...]