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Oh, I am liking how this is coming out!
Waiting on some ribbon to arrive by mail to put covers and ties on.

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An accordion fold book with 2 layers, one thinner and with more folds. The smaller layer is painted with a line of trees along the water. The background layer has splotches of green matching the green of the trees.

A different attempt at the homework (2 views of the same scene) where I only liked one. A honey bee on an azalea flower on campus.

#watercolor #bloomscrolling #bee

Mini watercolor painting of a honey bee on a pinky-purple azalea flower. The bee is sitting right in the middle of the flower, with the triangular petals framing it. A few dark green leaves frame the flower.

Class week 2 homework: two views or compositional approaches to the same scene/photo. We found these dandelions growing in an old stone wall on a walk the other day. I like dandelions and I like the way plants grow in stone walls: win-win!

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Two mini watercolors of dandelions growing from a stone wall. One shows a closeup of an open flower, a few leaves, and a couple of buds. The other shows the whole plant, a whorl of leaves and flowers, and the stones in the wall.

I'm taking another painting course, this one is miniature watercolor and pen. This is my 3rd class with the teacher in Japan. (American women, resident in Japan. She's learning Japanese techniques and teaching Western painting.) Having classes online makes the class more convenient and allows me to have classes with instructors I'd never be able to learn from otherwise, but I think it works better because I already had experience. I'm not sure how well it works for someone just learning.

Anyway, we have developed tiny travel kits and mini booklets. Mine are accordion folded watercolor paper. These are about 3x1.5 inches (7.5x3.8 cm.) I'm really enjoying this, and am looking forward to having a small book of my work by the end of class.

#watercolor #miniature

A tiny watercolor & pen painting of 2 trunks of bamboo, showing detail of several segments each, with a background of a mishmash of yellows and greens for the sunlit leaves.

A tiny watercolor of a closeup of a raven's head, focused on the brown eye. It's so close that the beak is partially out of the frame.

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Doorway in Milton Abbas
Milton Abbas is a gem of a village, tucked away in the heart of Dorset.
#watercolor #sketch

Watercolour painting of a doorway, with an arched surround of heavy stone.

An early fancy daffodil. This one is in a very protected spot - only a few of the hardier naturalizing plain yellow variety are out in the more exposed parts of the yard.

#daffodil #bloomscrolling

A daffodil with fanned almost white outer petals and multiple inner trumpets in yellow, white, and peach. The sun is making the yellow glow.

The Siberian Squill is out! (Blue and white varieties)

#springFlowers #squill #bloomscrolling

Small star-shaped, purple-blue flowers with grass-like leaves, amid last year's oak leaves.

Small star-shaped white flowers with blue lines on the petals.

Crocuses!
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Close-up of a brilliant purple crocus showing the intense orange of the stamen

A single bright purple crocus with orange stamens and a sheen on the curves of the petals

A white crocus with dark purple veins in the petals. The stamens are bright orange.

The deep purple crocuses are starting to bloom! They are my favorites.
#crocuses #spring #bloomscrolling

Crocuses.

People's State Forest, Jan. 2, 2024
#Mosstodon #Connecticut

Moss carpets one side of a log with a pine cone lodged in a crevice. Two tiny pine seedlings are growing up along the edge of the moss.

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Last year, I did an Instagram story takeover for Letters to a Pre-Scientist (http://www.prescientist.org/) and I introduced some key concepts in archaeology and related geosciences - here's the two-part cartoon I drew to introduce stratigraphy! #ArtAdventCalendar

#cartoon #stratigraphy #SciArt #archaeology #geoscience

A two-panel cartoon showing side-by-side vertical panels. The left panel shows stratigraphic layers down through the dirt, including artefacts. Text on the left says 'STRATIGRAPHY' with each letter aligned to a layer from top to bottom. A cartoon girl on the surface says "Analysing the way layers have built up tells us about what people have done here through time!" The panel on the right shows complex stratigraphic layers including pits and burrows cutting into deeper layers, with artefacts and the letters S, T, T, I, P, Y, G scattered throughout. A cartoon girl on the surface says "...but it can get complicated!"

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Disorder.

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#photography #photo #forest #nature #naturephotography #NatureLovers

Dark pine forest, but only the vertical trunks of almost identical trees are visible. In between, a fallen birch with white bark did not fall to the ground, but stopped on a pine at a 45 degree angle, disturbing the order.

I got in the student center elevator yesterday and for the first time noticed the wavy light reflections from the ceiling lights on the metal walls. Something to do with the round lights - the walls are definitely flat!

#Light #ArtAdventCalendar