The Hog and Puffin
/Sketches from a week as a “Puffin Islands” instructor for the National Audubon Society at Hog Island, Maine (with a trip to Eastern Egg Rock).
Sketches from a week as a “Puffin Islands” instructor for the National Audubon Society at Hog Island, Maine (with a trip to Eastern Egg Rock).
Early morning *
Midday
Late afternoon
* Bigleaf lupine, Lupinus polyphyllus, is native to western North America. I was (naively) surprised to see that the word “invasive” is absent from this Wikipedia article about iconic children’s book Miss Rumphius.
A glimpse into my recent art residency via Instagram posts, each containing multiple images you can scroll through laterally without leaving this page. (If you do end up on Instagram itself, look for more sketches under Stories!)
Other versions of this art collection can be found on Twitter, on Facebook, and in my gallery-in-progress.
Click either tweet below to see a 13-part Twitter thread from my art residency on the Isles of Shoals in the Gulf of Maine. More posts on Instagram, Facebook, and my art gallery.
Lobster wave🦞 goodbye to the stupendous students, faculty, and staff @ShoalsMarineLab. #artistinresidence pic.twitter.com/2mSCUXZRsJ
— Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) August 5, 2021
Bonus tweet that I forgot to put in the thread!
Gull in reverse @ShoalsMarineLab pic.twitter.com/90AGR1TnSx
— Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) August 4, 2021
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