Category Archives: Art

I use sketches mostly to study form and color for my maps, and to corral scattered thoughts. But, I post a few of them here anyway…

Oc-tych

On their way to the pocked concrete of Oakland, California.  About as far away from the Challis National Forest as it gets:

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Shrub-Steppe

I’m sweating out this post about biodiversity gradients, but can’t seem to get beyond big ungulates of the shrub-steppe tonight:

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Migration

The great migrations. They are so absorbing – almost like a car wreck on the side of the highway.  Why?

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Megafauna

Sparsely narrated graphic vignettes – kind of inspired by Nikki McClure’s paper cuts… …ink nebulae x accidental forms = religion.

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The Elephants

There is something so carnal and satisfying about the shape of Pleistocene animals. I could draw these elephant-types all day and never get tired of them. Elephants, bison, moose, condor – they are living ghosts. Do they wander the lonely plains – … Continue reading

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Poor Folk

Gut wrenching pains of poverty aside, I would’ve kicked ass at the great depression. Scrawled somewhere in my DNA is code for the scalding shade of empty oil drums and dirt caked on my skin like a melon rind: Of … Continue reading

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Motion

Most interesting things are in motion (or conspicuously ‘not in motion,’ I guess) – but capturing motion with a pencil is really hard.  That’s why you see so many cartoons falling back on curved lines and banal symbols. For about a … Continue reading

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