Mammals
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Harbour porpoises and a grey seal in Passamaquoddy Bay (you can tell they were on the Canadian side because of the spelling). Not pictured: Sabine's gull and little gull! Thanks to Cobscook Institute, Chris Bartlett, Doug Hitchcox, and company for the boat trip through Head Harbour Passage from Eastport, Maine.
Bird island
/I painted this tern from a wooden blind on Eastern Egg Rock, where puffins are the most famous (but not the only) birds. That was in June, during my week as an Audubon instructor.
These three sketches were from a subsequent trip to the rock in July with members of the Wabanaki community.
Top right: eider. Right: tern on tent. Above: tern on outhouse, with fish. (Incidentally, the outhouse itself is painted to look like a fish.)
Matinicus Rock
/A few sketches from a few days on a seabird island 23 miles offshore from Rockland, Maine, with Audubon’s Seabird Institute. Featuring: Arctic terns, Atlantic puffins, black guillemots, razorbills, seals, bindweed flowers, bird blinds, granite, a lighthouse, scientist Gemma Clucas, John Drury’s lapstrake dory, and scenes from the Vinalhaven–Rockland ferry.