brushandpencils : Bell Museum of Natural History

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Bell Museum of Natural History

Box Turtles do seem to hold still quite cooperatively.

Snowy Owl from Audubon's Birds of America

There have been quite a few sketching sessions at the Bell Museum and here are a few of the collections which seemed to "call out" to me in some way. These were drawn in a handmade journal I use only for these types of sketches.

Snowy Owl wing from Bell collection

White Pelican from Audubon's Birds of America

Great Blue Heron from Bell diorama

Walrus skull

lion skull

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Creative Endeavors

My marks on the pages of my sketchbook/journal help me to become more aware of my surroundings; a visual diary and sequential record of days of my life. Sometimes I'm working from my car, an "onsite studio". Almost always these drawings are "drawn on location".

My knitting and my weaving are other ways for me to explore color and texture; to use my hands to create and build up. Again the choices are a sequential record. The inches, feet and yards of cloth become a "journal", similar to the way pages eventually make up a book. I prefer to weave the design as I go along rather than to have it all figured out ahead of time.