I have been meaning to illustrate a pecan ( Carya illinoinensis ) fruit to ad to my previous post on hickory fruit .  Today I finally illus...

In October I switched from using Crayola to Faber Castell Polychromos colored pencils - you can see that post here .  I first bought the 25t...

A barred owl on a snowy blustery day, and some in-progress snapshots.  Watercolor, acrylic and colored pencil.

    I don't get to paint with oil very often, but I enjoy it when I can.  This is a red oak leaf painted a few falls ago.

  An old sketch of a blue jay feather

      The fall color is just about peak here and one of my favorite trees, white oak ( Quercus alba ), is displaying a wide variety...

  September was a busy month - my wife, son and I moved from Cleveland, Ohio to a small town in Central, IL and attended family weddin...

Our family is in the process of moving back to the prairie of Illinois so I have been without my scanner and much of my drawing supplies ...

When the summer is dry and the rivers reach low levels it becomes all to clear how much garbage pollutes our rivers and streams; even the m...

This is a handsome little freshwater mussel called a deertoe ( Truncilla truncata ) they range in color from this aqua blue to green to...