I'm
very pleased to have been invited to join five other artists
in contributing illustrations for this timely and important
book. The 'official' blurb sums it up better than any paraphrasing
I
can give:
"The
book includes much of the information and observations
about plants, plant communities,
and natural landscaping
that Nancy gathered over the years, together with essays
and articles that Nancy and Tom wrote together or separately
for many local, regional, and international publications.
The book includes 175 illustrations, most of them commissioned
specially for this book. All proceeds
and donations will
go to the NANCY SMALL MEMORIAL FUND and to
the
general
fund
of Kalamazoo Area Wild Ones, for programs and projects
in environmental education."
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I
recently completed the illustrations
for a piece entitled Mistletoe: Winter's Kiss, written
by
Terry Krautwurst and featured
in the November/December
2011 issue of Wildlife
in North Carolina magazine.
As usual, I learned a ton while doing research for this
assignment . . .
mistletoes are very strange
and interesting plants, with long associations
with both birds
and human beings . . . new info for me!
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it to the top!
— group
exhibitions
I'm
very honored to announce that my watercolor painting Ruby-throated
Hummingbird and Trumpet Creeper Blossom has been accepted
into the Focus
on Nature XII Natural History
Illustration
Exhibition. The exhibit will be open from April
28 - December 31, 2012 at the New
York State Museum in
Albany.
Focus on Nature is a biennial exhibit which began in 1990
and has now grown to international proportions; FON XI
included illustrators from as far away as Australia, Brazil,
Canada,
Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom . . . and probably some
others!
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