“Stink Bug…What a Name!”
Yes I know, what a name! This bug is a type of “Shield Bug”, so named because when viewed from above it looks like a shield. I don’t have a definitive identification on it but closest I could come was…
Mary McAndrew
Painting + Illustration
Mary McAndrew
Painting + Illustration
Tag field kit
“Mother’s Day Field Sketching” 2011
What did you think I’d be doing on Mother’s Day? It was gorgeous outside and I had the day to myself until later when my son comes over, so off I went for a walk with my sketch journal! Along…
Easter Sunday Wanderings / Green Frogs + Mayapples
A post sharing my notes and photos from a cold, wet walk on Easter Sunday. I was still able to find interesting life, wait till you see the video clip with Tadpole eggs! Please click images to see them larger…
Watercolor Crayon / Lesson 1 – Color Charts
I thought I’d add a series of posts that introduce my new watercolor crayons, a few old ones, and how to start using them in hopes that some of what I do may help someone else. When I first bought…
“Snow Filled Field at Long Lane Farm”
I know it seems out of place, this painting of snow when it’s Spring (at least it’s trying to be spring!) but I found I had never posted this and would hate to have it forgotten! So here’s a short…
“Wind in the Willows” – Clouds and Crayons
April 14, 2011 (if viewing this in an email subscription, please go to the website to see the video clip and pictures better) Above, this is the first view Ginger and I got when we started out on our walk;…
“Walk with Peepers and Golden Snails”
(if you are viewing this from your email subscription, please visit my blog on the actual website to see the video and links properly) Today I went for a walk with Ginger. We ventured forth out into the wet lanes…
“Wet Walk in March”
As my page describes, it was overcast, wet and dreary. I did the small landscape sketch while standing up, just a small little thing but it reminds me exactly of the time and place. At the bottom I wrote words…
“Step Outside Your Door Today”
(Please sign your email in my “Subscribe” box on the right, to receive my posts) Today is the “Equilux”, that is the day of the Equinox, where day is the same length as night. I heard that it’s also “World…
Oil Field Study on New Years Eve, 2010
(Please click each picture to see it enlarged) It is a cold and dreary day here in Western New York, I guess it is in many places around the world. But the drippy dreariness also shows me spring is coming;…