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What To My Wondering Eyes Should A Pear?

February 27, 2018by tompostpile 9 Comments

Here is the story of a pear. Three and a half years ago I started and then abandoned a drawing project. The beginnings sat in my portfolio. I put off […]

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2015, 2018, Art, Color, Drawing, Nature

The New Bug in Town

November 19, 2017by tompostpile 3 Comments

Early last May, I started work on the drawing of a cicada. Summer and the end of classes intervened before the project could be finished. The only progress made was […]

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2017, Art, Drawing, Nature

New Bug Underway

November 11, 2017by tompostpile Leave a comment

There’s a new bug in town… Work has started on a cicada drawing. Once it’s done, we’ll put up a sequence of photos, from this one to “done”. Stay tuned.

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2017, Art, Drawing, Nature

A Quick Walk Through The Hall

August 20, 2017by tompostpile Leave a comment

There are many solipsistic locations on our planet: Paris, London, Peking, New York City — even Martha’s Vineyard. Humans will always tend to think “Who else but me? Where else but here?” […]

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2017, Abstracts, Art, Color, Drawing, Essay, Flowers, Martha's Vineyard, Martha's Vineyard Fair, 2017, MVAS Fair, photograph, West Tisbury

San José, Costa Rica, Street Art, Faces

April 13, 2017by tompostpile 2 Comments

The walls of San José have many faces. Or is that multi-faces? Some faces are surreal Some are cartoonish. Some are noble, beautiful, and mysterious. What is this? Queen Nefertiti […]

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2017, Art, Color, Costa Rica, Drawing, photograph, Travel

The Bones

February 11, 2017by tompostpile 1 Comment

When you spend enough time walking in the woods, or search sufficiently in swamps, finding bones becomes a sure thing. On the most recent swamp expedition, I found two deer skeletons. To […]

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2017, Drawing, Essay, Nature, photograph, West Tisbury

A Brief History of a Squash and Apple Drawing.

November 10, 2015by tompostpile Leave a comment

Since 2006, one of the pleasures and touchstones of my life has been studying natural history drawing. Once or twice a week I meet with others, from 9:30 to 11:30 […]

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2015, Art, Drawing, Essay, Nature, photograph, Uncategorized, Woods Hole, Words

Early October 2015 at Wishetwurra Farm

October 10, 2015by tompostpile Leave a comment

Rain came! About six inches of rain, in a seven-day northeast storm that kept us clouded, damp, misted, mizzled, showered, and just plain deluged. Last night a line storm rumbled and […]

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2015, Drawing, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph, West Tisbury, Wishetwurra Farm

Wishetwurra Farm. September 2015

September 5, 2015by tompostpile Leave a comment

I’ll be taking photos later today, for the regular monthly report. In the meantime, here’s a little set of photos from early September Wishetwurra Farm. What a bountiful time of […]

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2015, Color, Drawing, Gardening, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph, West Tisbury, Wishetwurra Farm

Sulfur Drawing

May 25, 2015by tompostpile Leave a comment

You can’t always decide quickly about what to draw next. For longer than seemed necessary, I couldn’t decide. I hemmed and hawed. What the heck is hemming and hawing, anyway? […]

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2015, Art, Color, Drawing, Nature, photograph, Uncategorized, Words

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