{"id":902,"date":"2018-09-24T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-a-day-in-greenland-with-birds\/"},"modified":"2018-09-24T15:00:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T19:00:02","slug":"sketchbook-a-day-in-greenland-with-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-a-day-in-greenland-with-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketchbook \/\/ a day in Greenland, with birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Mom took me and my girl to Greenland and it was AMAZING. <\/em>I saw birds I’ve never seen before (“life birds”), including Northern Wheatears and (probably-) Meadow Pipits.<\/p>\n

While poking about the ruins of a viking church, a bird landed on my head! (Probably a Common Redpoll, based on what other birds were also flying around.)<\/p>\n

I drew some birds and was pleased with how it turned out. I think<\/em> that bottom right one was a Lapland Longspur, but since so many of birds are molting and shifting into the nonbreeding plumage, and I’m not a super birder, I’m not totally sure. It could just be some other nifty sparrow-like bird.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Also tried painting fungus. Um. I think I need more work there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I did these pages in the evening of a rainy and windy day, using photos taken by me, Mom, and my daughter to help me get stuff right, because of course live birds rarely stay still enough…\u00a0<\/p>\n

The sketchbook is the nature journal from John Muir Laws<\/a> and I love it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Mom took me and my girl to Greenland and it was AMAZING. I saw birds I’ve never seen before (“life birds”), including Northern Wheatears and (probably-) Meadow Pipits. While poking about the ruins of a viking church, a bird landed on my head! (Probably a Common Redpoll, based on… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-ey","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":961,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/wip-bird-stamps\/","url_meta":{"origin":902,"position":0},"title":"WIP Bird stamps","author":"Kir","date":"3 June 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Making more!\u00a0Memorial Day weekend here in Vermont is also Spring Open Studio Weekend. 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