Farewell to Shoals
/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.
Bonus tweet that I forgot to put in the thread!
Hastily animated birds, part two
/There was snow on the ground, as you may or may not be able to tell.
See also: Hastily animated birds, part one (Melodramatic Gull).
Talk talk talk
/It was an alarmingly verbose week, with (a) an interview and (b) a sketching workshop during National Geographic Storytellers Summit, not to mention (c) an unrelated lecture for NYC Audubon. The interview is below.
And here’s the sketching session. For some reason the stream skipped right over the most important sketching tip (BE MESSY). Also, I feel obliged to clarify that tubenose seabirds like albatrosses, shearwaters, and storm-petrels are not all in the same taxonomic family; they are in the same order (PROCELLARIIFORMES).
Now, back to my customary limit of 10 words per day.
Melodramatic gull
/One thing this experiment highlighted: you never know when the old Voice Memos that you recorded on your phone while messing around on the piano will come in handy.
See also: Hastily animated birds, part two (Tentative Goose).