Love letter to a moth
For the past couple of weeks, as midsummer coastal fog has finally given way to warm late summer sunshine and warmth, I’ve noticed a lot more insect activity in my garden—painted lady butterflies, yellow-faced bumblebees, grasshoppers whose coral-pink wings flash when...
Learning through teaching
On Friday, I wrapped up a two-week course, teaching botanical illustration as part of CSU Monterey Bay’s Summer of Science Illustration program. Botanical illustration is my favorite subject to teach, and plants are a wonderful subject matter for observational...
Painting in yellow (and learning to use a light touch)
For the past few months, I’ve been working on a painting of various California wildflowers, all in yellow. Apparently this has been seeping into other areas of my life, as I realize that I have multiple yellow dresses, yellow shoes, yellow Fiestaware bowls… a friend...
