by KLR | Jan 24, 2023 | Inspiration, Painting
It’s the first few weeks of the first month of a new year… what to paint next. Starting a new painting is always an uncertain time for me. I have so many images in my mind’s eye that I want to paint. There are exhibition deadlines on the not-so-distant horizon, but...
by KLR | Jan 18, 2023 | Postcards to Nature
1•18•2021Joshua Tree National Park Dear Nature,Dr. Seuss wrote: Think and wonder. Wonder and think. This magical place called Joshua Tree is a wonder indeed, that makes me think about what a wonder it is. The namesake Joshua trees are something out of a Dr. Seuss...
by KLR | Jan 11, 2023 | Postcards to Nature
1•11•2021Bald Eagle Soaring Dear Nature,Yesterday we watched as a bald eagle soared into sight, catching an updraft and lazily swirling upward in a slow, mesmerizing spiral. It struck a course for a man-made perch, a high-power utility tower. As it descended, legs and...
by KLR | Jan 9, 2023 | Bird Art, Inspiration, Sketches From Nature
There is a birding tradition that the first bird you see on New Year’s Day is your theme bird for the year. A chirp outside my bedroom window woke me up; I turned my head to look – perched boldly and confidently on the topmost branch of the lilac tree was a...
by KLR | Jan 4, 2023 | Postcards to Nature
1•4•2021Cinnamon in the Winter Dear Nature, Cinnamon is a warm spice, conjuring up comforting scents of apple pies baking in the oven-heated kitchen and spice-scented candles burning on the mantel. The common eider is a winter sea duck, the most ‘common’ duck we just...
by KLR | Dec 28, 2022 | Postcards to Nature
12.28.2020Fox Dear Nature,If I had to pick a favorite animal, Fox would be in the top five! I don’t see them very often, even thought they live around us on the farm. I guess that’s the way of the Fox; observing, unseen, from the edges. December seems to be a month...
by KLR | Dec 21, 2022 | Postcards to Nature
12.21.2020 TuckerWoods Farm – Winter Solstice Dear Nature,Today is the Winter Solstice, when we celebrate the return of the sun, little by little. Tonight we also witness a rare celestial event- a great conjunction of our solar system’s two largest planets,...
by KLR | Feb 16, 2021 | Postcards to Nature
Dear Nature, In 2020 my art world and my travel world came to a screeching halt due to the pandemic. All of my workshops, exhibitions and art fairs got canceled. I had two major road trips planned to continue my National Park quest – 14 parks in total. I had to...
by KLR | Jan 1, 2020 | Inspiration, Painting, Tales from TuckerWoods Farm
…don’t take any sh*t. I said goodbye to my beloved cat Emmylou yesterday, on the last day of 2019. Emmy was diagnosed with a very aggressive type of mouth cancer at the beginning of December. I had two other cats pass from the exact same cancer, so I knew we didn’t...
by KLR | Jan 14, 2019 | Drawing, Inspiration, My Travels
“So he sat down on the stone in the middle of the stream.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends were pretty much my all-time favorite books as a child along with anything about a certain black horse, and a pony from...
