Tiny Goldcrest
Today I saw a Goldcrest for the first time ever, but not the way I’d like to have seen it. This beautiful and tiny little bird flew right into the patio window while I was sat just on the other…
Mary McAndrew
Painting + Illustration
Mary McAndrew
Painting + Illustration
Tag gross/strange things
“Blackbird Study” on May 28, 2010
Today, though it is sad, I did a watercolor study of a blackbird female that died after flying into our patio window. Just as other naturalists before me have done, I took advantage of having a real bird in front…
“Robert Burns Day and his poem “To a Mouse”
I hesitated to put this study up, it’s nothing gross to a naturalist, a dead mouse. Some people would say “oh, gross!” but all through time, man (scientists and artists in particular) has learned by studying from dead creatures. I…