Bluejay
The Blue Jay is very striking, with white, black and many blue tones. The patterns on wings and tail are very complex like a mosaic.
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Colored Pencil Drawings
This series of Tom's drawings are all Prismacolor colored pencil on smooth bristol board, done in studio. This is a new medium for Tom upon semi-retiring from his industrial design career. The over 200 colors available greatly expand the possibilities of the pencil as a medium, in comparison to his life-long use of graphite pencil for black and white plein air drawing expression.
Nuthatch
The White Breasted Nuthatch is a delight to listen to and to watch. It seems to defy gravity as it “walks” up and down trees and on the bottom side of branches.
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Merlin Falcon
The Merlin Falcon is the smallest falcon, very fierce and very beautiful. We often have them in our yard. They regularly dine on our songbirds and chipmunks….which is, of course, in Nature’s plan.
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Chickadee
Our Black Capped Chickadees are always curious and the most naturally friendly birds, buzzing our heads at our feeders.
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Olive
Olive is our daughter’s cat, a muted tortoise shell with bright green eyes.
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Grace & Almonzo
Gracie and Almonzo were our two indoor house cats, who grew up with our daughter Thea. This drawing of them as kittens is looking through a hole in a carpeted climbing structure that I built for them.
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Tinker
Tinker was Jill’s sister JoAnn and our brother-in-law Phil’s very sweet aging rescue dog. Tinker had her last two years in a very fine home with them.
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Dakota & Taz
Dakota and Taz are Jill’s sister JoAnn’s horses in the Leelanau Peninsula of Michigan. Dakota recently passed away in his venerable 30’s.
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Colt
Colt is our friend’s beautiful Husky.
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Cecil B De Squirrel
Cecil B. De Squirrel is our quite tame grey squirrel who grabs his favorite nut right out of Jill’s nut container. He let me get close to him to get a photo for this portrait.
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