Nature Morph

the week in pictures

In true fall fashion, we went apple picking last weekend, and as an added bonus, the farm had my favorite kinds of animals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then we went hiking yesterday, and at the beginning of the trail, I spotted three (THREE!) fairy rings, as in the real mushrooms growing in a real circle.  I went pretty crazy over them, and I was glad that my daughter is still young enough to think that I am funny but not embarrassing when I get all worked up over mushrooms.

 

 

 

 

 

In the middle of the week, between these two excursions, I drove from Cambridge to the Lower East Side in NYC, and back again, all in one day.  It was one of the nuttier things I've done in a while, but I had to go down, and I had to be back home that night.  And so it happened, in somewhat surreal fashion.  I sat in so much traffic that I decided to document my drive from Spring St to Chrystie St, which I was able to do with my little Nikon point-and-shoot.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm heading north to the White Mountains tomorrow.  Hope you all have a great weekend!

sketchy

I'm making pencil drawings on smaller and smaller pieces of paper.  This little guy is a tenrec that I saw at the natural history museum.  It is completely reasonable that mushrooms would be growing out of its head.

 

Then I was drawing this chanterelle sparrow, and I kept thinking, this looks like something I've seen before, but what is it?  And then it dawned on me.

 

It's my daughter's remote-control Pokemon creature. 

I think I have officially crossed the line and hit the point of full-blown absurdity in my work, at least for the moment.

new things

 

Shana tova!  May it be a good year for all of us.

I still don't quite feel like my feet are under me, as far as my work is concerned.  I'm trying to shake things up a bit, so I've been visiting the Harvard Museum of Natural History to draw the animals there.

 

 

 

 

 

I've also become somewhat obsessed with sea monsters.  With all the used books that I cut up to make collages, I've compiled a bunch of old images that have my gears spinning.

 

 

 

And then I'm still drawing ducks...