World Wide Sketchcrawl 47 at the Tallahassee Museum

Once again, the Tallahassee Museum generously hosted us Sketchcrawlers to re-advertise our exhibit and for us to draw special events--the Pioneer Breakfast plus Jazz & Blues Festival-- both concurrent with Worldwide Sketchcrawl number 47 April 25th. 
We started at the Museum around 7am and ended at 5 pm. We enjoyed docents in Pioneer costumes and musicians & dancers, animals and exhibits to sketch.

Curator Sarah Wagoner also added artworks I completed at my Big Cypress National Artist's Residency to the Bird Room!

Thanks to the museum for sponsoring us. Many visitors joined in and put their drawings on the wall with our show! 

It was a happy drawing day!  The raindrops didn't stop us: they only brought more people in to sketch the taxidermy and see the show!
Mark

Dede and Bill and Joyce drawing on the Phipps Gallery Porch

Various "drop-in"/"flash-mob" Sketchcrawl artists

Various "drop-in"/"flash-mob" Sketchcrawl artists

Joyce, Dede, Bill, Mark

(not pictured: Jennifer, Judith, John, Sara, Roger, Noah, Brianna, Marco)

Various "drop-in"/"flash-mob" Sketchcrawl artists

crayon wood duck's head by Mark Fletcher

seated at picnic table by Dede

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Call to Crawl Sketchcrawl 47 Poster

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a little rain didn't stop the climbers, either

Jazz singers take a break

Sorry, John, I had to take a classic Artiste in action snap.

by Bill Otersen

by Bill Otersen

exiting duck by Bill Otersen

 

 

gator by Bill Otersen

exiting duck by Mark Fletcher

Blacksmith by Briana Carroll

Lillies by Briana Carroll

 

 

by John Billingsley

by John Billingsley

 

 

by John Billingsley

 

 

by John Billingsley

 

 

Cabin Porch by Judith Boettcher

 

 

Oak Leaf Hydrangea by Joyce Raichelson

 

 

Snake and Cigs in style of Tim White by Dede

Shy Gator (Homage to Jeret Madei) by Mark Fletcher

Exhibit: Fletcher Sketches Big Cypress National Artist-in-Residence Program at Big Cypress National Preserve

The exhibit is still up for a couple months! Would make a great vacation...see the National Preserve and Parks plus Clyde Butcher's Gallery; Swamp Walks, boat outings, best weather of the year and almost no insects!  Lots of wildlife including migratory birds congregating around easily accessible water...
Please check out the National Park Service site "Plan your Visit"
 http://www.nps.gov/bicy/planyourvisit/art-exhibits.htm

Nov 1, 2013--January 31, 2014   Exhibit: Fletcher Sketches Big Cypress
 On-location art and related works from the National Artist-in-Residence Program sponsored by Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida, USA.

  Easy to find between Naples and Miami on Tamiami Trail
at the Big Cypress Oasis Visitors Center and Welcome Center Galleries at each end of the Preserve.

                            Postcard with detail from large poem-painting in exhibit

                                           Below: a sample from the 52 paintings 
                                        selected for the exhibit from 83 artworks
                                       paintings, sketches and poem-paintings
                            

wildflowers and sun showers

Alligator (eyes) floating with trees and sky reflected

Mangroves meet the Prairie

Pairs of birds, gators and cypress trees

juvenile gator (still has stripes)

Big Cypress Gold

the large poem-painting composed 

on-location in the kayak:

Big Cypress Gold 

The unnamed Roads of waterworld create a wetlands maze

of winding mangrove tunnels where wet prairies go for days

and days upon their grassy swampy sunny sidewalk ways

until a Big cool Cypress dome, a rest stop, gives you shade.

The bird and reptile residents will tolerate a human guest.

A fish might jump into your boat and you might see a nest.

But remember we are visitors and they don’t bother us

“Observe, Experience, Connect” and don’t betray their trust.

When leaving water-wonder-world,

      take memories--

            all you can hold;

but leave behind

      so all can find

            Preserved, Big Cypress gold!

Poem & Image ã12/27/13 and 10/11/14 Mark Fletcher

Big Cypress National Preserve

World Wide Sketchcrawl number 45 Tallahassee, Florida's New Cascades Park

World Wide Sketchcrawl number 45 was held at Tallahassee, Florida's New Cascades Park:
10 participants got together for the sketch review, lunch and group photo including:

Back row, left to right: Mark Fletcher, Jennifer Clinard,  Dede Harter, John Billingsley, Roger Messimer. Front row, left to right: Mary Sterner Lawson, Barbara Psimas,  Jeff Zenick and Bill Otersen. Also drew, but not pictured: David Gauldin.
We enjoyed bright skies, and comfortable weather with plenty of people and landscapes to draw.

just some of the sketchbooks  (photo by Jennifer Clinard)

"Light and Heavy"

Goodyear Blimp Over Rocks by Mark Fletcher

Trees by Jennifer Clinard

Children Playing in Fountains by Mark Fletcher

Growing Tree and Wiregrass by Dede Harter

Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Building by Mark Fletcher 

Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Building by Jeff Zenick

Children Playing in Fountains by Mark Fletcher

Children Playing in Fountains by Mary Sterner Lawson

Circular Overflow Waterfall and Amphitheater 

with Bill Otersen Sketching down by the Stream

 by Mark Fletcher

 Circular Overflow Waterfall by Bill Otersen

Circular Overflow Waterfall and detail (photos by Jennifer Clinard)

Restoration of a Building by David Gauldin

Action figures by Bill Otersen

Jennifer's Sketchy Shirt by Unknown Craftsperson

Children Playing in Fountains  by Mary Sterner Lawson

Dede, John. Bill, and Mark sketching (photo by Jennifer Clinard)

People by Mary Sterner Lawson

John by Mary Sterner Lawson

Applebee's, game night by John Billingsley

Lotus Plants by Barbara Psimas

Cascades at night by John Billingsley

Wetlands Plants by Barbara Psimas

Couple on Bench with Umbrella by Roger Messimer

Cascades and Jasmine by John Billingsley

Trees by the Stream by Jennifer Clinard

Fletcher Sketches Big Cypress: November 1, 2014--January 31, 2015

If you're in the neighborhood, check out this exhibit!

http://www.nps.gov/bicy/planyourvisit/art-exhibits.htm

 

World Wide SketchCrawl number 44: Saxon Switzerland National Park

World Wide SketchCrawl number 44: Saxon Switzerland National Park:
Better posted late than never: After a week of illness and a day in a most helpful German hospital, went on a "Cure" to Saxon Switzerland National Park near the Czech/German border. Sara carried me up the mountain with her unending optimism. Pinnacles like fingers pointing to heaven looked like Durer's drawings, but were more famously painted by Caspar David Friedrich and the Romantics. Tibetan monk in "safety orange" robes on Bastei Bridge. Impressive stonework by men and nature. Old castle ruins and an angel on the peak. Wind and Acapella choir's songs echoing through the mountains and valleys.

Summer Annual Exhibit May 16--July 11, 2014

Check out the exhibit at FSU Museum of Fine Arts!