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.)
A hint of what I have been up to (and where) for the past four months. Details to come…
Photo by Edin Whitehead
It’s coming together! So grateful to to Abby McBride and Chris Ferrante and @PrincetonUPress for a smart and simple cover—I hope HDT would smile. pic.twitter.com/HxKIgMnreL
— John Kaag (@JohnKaag) December 14, 2022
My cover illustration for a new book about Thoreau, based on the frontispiece of Walden.
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.
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).
Abby McBride
SKETCH BIOLOGIST
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