sketchbook

UPDATED AUG 2010  “Field sketching and painting lies at the core of my work as an artist.  My sketchbooks are the "raw material" of my art.  When working on location, I always carry a 9" x 12" spiral-bound sketchbook and an assortment of soft drawing pencils.  Color is added in the field or immediately upon return to the studio.  Since 1983, when I began sketching outdoors on a regular basis, I've filled more than seventy sketchbooks with thousands of drawings of birds, mammals, plants and landscapes. Here is a sampling..."

Bison, May 2008, Rutland, MA

Bog in Sunapee, N.H.

Oct 2007

Cape May, NJ

Peruvian Screech-Owl, June 2003, Ecuador

Cattle, Overlook Farm, June 2008, Rutland, MA

Meadowlarks, April 2008, Whately, MA

Blue Jay Studies, Feb 2010, Princeton, MA

Young Common Tern, dozing, Plymouth, MA

Least Sandpipers, August 2009, Bolton, MA

Halloween Pennants, July 2009,

Sterling, MA

Lightship, August 2008, Wareham, MA