Birds of the Day

Bird of the Day card featuring Cooper’s Hawk. I’ve enjoyed hearing and seeing these birds around the neighborhood!

Sketches from my adventure to Richmond Beach Saltwater park on a stormy springtime day.

Three bird cards featuring recent sightings from my neighborhood.

New bird sightings and sketches: owls, quail, and meadowlarks.

Notes on inspiration and self-care including Ira Glass, Ted Talks, and Northern Pygmy Owls.

Illustrated explanation of how I use Bento 3 to manage my business and three new bird studies.

Announcing my new 4″x6″ bird postcards available in my shop.

I’m catching up from a great (although busy!) last week. Thank you to everyone who came out to the Greenwood Phinney Artwalk as well as my Daniel Smith demo! Check out MacKenzie McAninch’s blog post on the Artwalk. All good fun. Right now in addition to my regular art endeavors, I’m learning to save lives

Accomplishing goals and projects requires the commitment of daily work. As a self-employed artist, I strive for productive patterns so that I can, in the words of my Carleton College academic counselor Steve Davis, “trust in process.” At the time he told me this, I was failing macro-economics my senior year, a class which I

Funny, I don’t feel any older. I’m 27 today and time just seems to pass all the more quickly. I try to remember to lean back in time instead of rushing forward in anticipation of what’s to come. Art and observation is part of this, taking time to appreciate the small details of the world: finding

Darin and I are finally feeling settled in our new apartment in Seattle and I’m finding my routine of working in the new environment. Moving was a bigger project than I expected- I suppose it always is! It was compounded by helping my parents move simultaneously home from Washington D.C. (we had been care-taking for

I just have to share… Darin Reid and I are engaged to be hitched. We were happy to announce the news yesterday to our friends and family at the annual Casa Coryell-Martin cider party.  Other news, Saturday I had a wonderful time giving two demos at the Seattle Daniel Smith and next month, November 16, I

Some selections from my species list this week… they’re a lot of fun to make!

Last week I was thinking about some of my lifetime goals such as building a kayak, visiting Iceland, taking hot air balloon ride (which I want to do for my 30th birthday), gardening more, etc… Among my goals is to become a better naturalist. Exploring my environment through art often raises the questions of “Why?”