Academy of Science biome globe
A friend of a friend of a friend recommended I step in to help create the artwork for the Academy's upcoming exhibit, which features the earth's biomes. A biome is a geographical area with distinctive vegetation and animal life adapted to the prevailing conditions found there. Scientists plotted where the biomes are, and I created the map in Illustrator & Photoshop, which was printed on fabric, and wrapped around the spherical armature. It's about 25' in diameter, so the files were HUGE! It gave me the opportunity (not optional) to clean out my computer as I needed all the room I could muster. I've always ...
Clouds
Driving around in this variable weather gave me the opportunity to analyze how clouds really look. A lightbulb went off in my head as I ...
Graphic Recording
When I tell people that I do graphic recording, most don't know what it is. Here are a few snapshots of some of the 8-foot+ recordings I ...
Lichen
Here is some lichen and old man's beard I found on a plein air excursion down the peninsula. Lichen is the result of a nice symbiotic ...
Gardening
When I first came to California, I didn't recognize a lot of the plants, because so many would never thrive on the East Coast. I started ...
Almond orchard
Last week I took a trip to the Sacramento Valley, where almond blossoms were beginning to come out, and the bee hives had been trucked in ...
Party birds
Every year at this time, the berries of the Pyracantha and Cottoneaster get ripe—really ripe as in fermented—and the birds go nuts. It ...