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difficult,
places. Everything
was
in barely
On March
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and
naturalist
who
created Drawing
As
Life in Motion.
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literature
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6 Spring in art
life
Juvenile literature 7
United Mates
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New
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artJuvenile literature
Summary
comments from
spring
nature accompanied In
Animals in
art
Drawing -Technique
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4 Wildlifeart
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in
Sketching outdoors
Arnosky. Jim,
Inc.,
in the
-Juvenile literature
illustration
86-21308
technique
ISBN 0-688-06284-9
And
our
life,
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You Like
It
The pictures
season
detailed,
in this
NTRODUCTI ON
life
during one
they looked to
occurred to
size so
to capture
them on
In
one
text.
shirt
my necessities.
As comforts
sit
on and
pair of polarized sunglasses to cut the sun's glare off the white
paper.
employ
a portable
wooden easel.
I work outdoors in all weather. In the early days of spring,
when it is still quite wintry, I wear warm woolen gloves. also
use an umbrella to sketch under when it is raining. Because of
I
handy.
artist
open
air refreshing.
your drawing
pictures that
lines.
Weather,
And
fair
or foul,
somehow
invigorates
Spring 198$
deep snow
still
lay
upon
in
March, when
the ground.
On
places
was warm,
it
my
my neighbor
that
little
many
in
as
vapor that
V-.
When drawing buildings or other man-made objects on
don't oxerly concern yourself with
and
true.
making
time later at
home
to level
and
In cold weather,
may
lines
it
possible to
and
lead makes
the spot,
keep
and
my
soft
lines quickly.
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Deep
in the
maple woods
and had
finally
was
recent.
found
broken
succumbed
wood
Two maple
this
inside the
to
had been
saplings that
tree are
tree. It
now standing
in the light.
and shadows.
is
tree trunk,
and
dull.
lighth
drew
in
details.
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In the springtime
woods you
will find
that have
many dead
to
draw
is
As I sketched,
is
at
in the distance.
it
drawing
closer to
12
it
it.
will
seem
on paper than
a
It
so visually exciting,
down
interesting to look at
Woodland
trunks
and
tree
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13
In spring, streams
their banks,
becomes
fill
a torrent.
sketched
melting into
The
bed
at
first
all.
this
ice, rise
land. Every
up over
little
brook
was
it.
its
ledges,
banks.
<4t
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in the
to loosen up.
same direction
as
the flow.
The sound of the rushing water should set your drawing rhythm.
lively
same simple
patterns oxer
and
spills, slaps,
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it.
it.
is
per-
a recreation of one
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downstream by
birches.
set
that
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Soon
volume of water
in the
level
could see
I
down
sketched
to their
in the
expected
dark water.
Work on each
pouring, what
waterfall until
it is
going
oxer,
it
is
clear
and where
it is
spilling
is
to.
Notice that the streamside boulders look dry and the rock
in the
bit
its
own marks,
scuts, clefts,
at a boulder,
the
is
and
more of
its
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Trees growing close to water are apt to have roots showing above
the surface of the ground. In early spring, with the snow cover
to
living.
and crack
it
tree
a large
same
boulder
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sketched
this
day of spring.
It is
the
first
first
I
truly
did without
all
The longer
to
my
I sit
more
I feel I
too
am becoming rooted
spot.
After three hours spent sitting before this great tree and thinking
of
its
growth,
had
to
my seat when
it
was time
to leaxe.
will
to
pack up and
22
it
was
embedded
warm
..
In a soggy April
frogs.
woods I heard
wood
By getting down
able to get
on
close
enough
to see
frogs'
was
the water but also their bodies hanging suspended under the
waters surface.
When
their position
will freeze in
Whenever
can,
spot of earth.
When
fhis
pddlehead
of "looking
an
my pictures.
emanate from nearh
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to
is
this,
the
same
and show
about"
in all directions is
what
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The
clusters of
coming of fiddleheads.
them everywhere
in the
woods, on
the banks of streams and shores of ponds, and along the edges of
fields.
new places
through the
leaf
Some
fresh, festive-looking
mold.
the
composted mounds
newcomers pushing up
The
first
going on
safari
and sketching
in
them from
life
can mean
some uncomfortable
places.
wen
If you
to
it
as possible
and as
to see
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flower parts.
Draw
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Wake-Robin glowing
border of out pastutc
in a
sluuh plan
light by shading.
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small brook.
made this sketch just after a warm rain. In the damp shady
woods where these Moccasin Flowers thrive, mosquitos were
out in squadrons. Repellent, long sleeves, and even my mesh
head net could not protect me from them. I came home bitten
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and
itching.
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Slippers.
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sketches
noticed
its
made
how
to grow,
moment
soil to the
first
day
it
In drawing, color
gray,
from pale and nearly white to rich and deep tones that
to
Colors are most \i\id in the clear light of rain-washed air. After
a rain I like to roam, sketchbook in hand, knowing something
lovely will catch
I
my eye.
brilliant
it
looks.
TluJack-in-thc-Pulpit
woods.
30
is
in
moist
-:-
of the pond.
around
it,
his boat
on the shore
will
With
this sketch
learned not
to judge
a picture while
it is
still in
3&;
this scene.
drawing was
"
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lost.
shape of the boat and came out of the forest with one of the finest
pictures I had made all spring.
While
was drawing
swimming out
sketches.
back.
bird
I
The
in the
first
spotted a loon
was
a side
aid of binoculars,
saw,
and from
after the
its bill.
nostrils.
was drawing
it
my last lines,
swam away.
'
Sometimes
is
vision
a quick glimpse of
enough
to recall
enough of an impression
flown,
was
able to
make
in
my mind
this
tail left
this sketch.
had
When
you
springtime sketches,
basis for a
more
all
detailed
do
to
so!
drawn
draw from
Any one
hastily,
and finished
life,
however
of these rough
can
later
picture.
be used as the
Some
days your
and large
birds can
to
be
s'+^-Al*'
often
and
actions. This
binoculars
is
may be because
the looking
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we do through
rest,
dry
off,
and preen
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it.
whipped about
my easel with
them.
No
matter
how strong
Some
trees
and shrubs
reflect this
and which
dots,
dashes, oxals, and arrowheads. These are also the shapes used
in
38
drawings
to
to take
While
this
male smallmouth
circular nest he
The
fish
fins
I
He was
in shallow water,
in the gravelly
noticed
guarding a
bottom.
while
bass.
had approached
to
within three
feet. All
his
the
and
tail
waved serenely
presumed
that
in the water.
eggs in the nest and that the eggs were there, hidden
glistening pebbles
among
the
blended so well with the water color and the stream bottom that
even with
my polarized glasses on
of him.
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lost sight
enough
to see
first
saw
far
still
her.
was
enough away
and
site,
added the
finishing touches.
One morning
pond
shore, asleep.
was
this sketch.
^mm
was becoming
frantically to
active brood.
Ducklings were
still
softly all
around
her.
that
scurrying back to
Mama where,
investigating
noise sent
them
all
felt safe.
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like to get
lexel to
draw
tiny
animals such as
these ducklings.
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accustomed
me
began
If
Once I began my
up.
to
When
to strangers.
still.
initially,
I
first
it.
Then
wait,
(as
is
likely to
subject's
anatomy. Your
lines will
become more
sure,
your
Exery time
in
44
my figures from
become
behave naturally.
quickly
life, I
me and
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life
to gixe
to
still.
concentrate on the scenery around the figures. Once you haxe the
entire scene sketched in,
add
light by
applying shadows.
you find you are haxing trouble constructing a particular animal, perhapsyou should wait until you
can see it in brighter light. Then try drawing it again.
Back
in
March
it
seemed natural
to the
If
to
spring
commenced,
it
for spring
caught up with
my
damp
forest As
wandering.
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Soon
didn't have to
go
my wife,
Deanna,
tilled. In
is
do
far to
my springtime
sketching. Here.
when new
48
in soil
ARNOSKY
JIM
and
two-hundred-
and
naturalist,
illustrated
numerous highly
books
young
for
successful
Roger Tory
readers.
artist,
him "an
inspired
"a bible
is
an
Arnoskys
on the art of
ALA
Notable
it
in a
as "a spiritual
Nature and
in
its
Drawing from
companion, Drawing
Motion, as "luminous
Life
tributes to Ar-
In
nam-
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book
is
paean
to the
unobtrusive obser-
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