Packing is always fun, capturing reference shots for studio work for the next years body of art, is exciting. Today’s tasks, laundry, travel studio pack and supplies, photography equipment, BATTERIES, then a trip into town this afternoon to shop for supplies. Tomorrow cleaning out the RV and packing it up.
Midnight Fly By – Sandhill Crane, hand painted on silk, steam set.
Heading for a week over to the Nebraska Fly Way, to capture and view the Sandhill Crane migration along with the other thousands of bird species that will be passing through. This year there are four of us going along and we have already reserved the viewing blinds for next week.
I have generated my list of working supplies and packed up the minimal required to take along with me. Not a small task to make certain I actually get those all into the RV, and what I need. This year we will be taking the GoPro with us, a new addition to our video arsenal. Hopefully we will have given it enough of a practice run to do some great clips to put together some decent work.
Down to details and feathers. Work in Progress.
Will be posting some of the sketching and photo snaps of what we see from the road as we can.
Next up, spring fishing will be starting here and I am soooooo ready to get down to it.
Take care and hope to see you along the river soon.
Andy
Check out the Crane cam. The birds begin to fly out of the river around 6 am Nebraska time in the morning. It takes about two hours for them to fly out, so great watching during that time. In the evening they begin to stage into the river around 6 pm. And touchdown into the water to roost anytime after that and it can take about the same amount of time, two to three hours until dark while the river fills up with birds.
http://m.ustream.tv/channel/rowe-sanctuary-s-crane-cam
Enjoy, it is spectacular, and very noisy.
Andy
We have been on the road now four days. One of the most amazing things happened to me on the way to Rowe Sanctuary. I realized that out of the many species of wildlife, these Sandhill cranes were special. They have me captivated. We have been up at 5 am every day and in the blinds observing them, have thousands of images and video. Go back to camp at night, eat, drink and have fun conversations about how the day went while spending hours clearing hard drives on cameras, editing down pics, to recover enough space for another thousand images in the morning. We will have images to upload tomorrow. Andy
Simply amazing @ the RoweSanctuary!
Happy Easter to all! Today is a hustle and bustle day. The Art Studio of Anderson R Moore, will be loaded into the RV this afternoon, along with all the video equipment and other goodies. We will head out early tomorrow and hit the proverbial road east bound. Sandhill Cranes here we come.
Plenty of plein-air supplies and sketch materials will be in the studio box. I hope to have time to wander off and paint some and do a bit of sketching.
I hope you will set us in your RSS Feed and follow along on the migration trail of a million birds gathering on the North Platte.
Anderson
By stretching the prepared (washed and set) silk onto the PVC stretcher bars, and transferring my designs, I then am able to start the work. Selecting my pallet and preparing the dyes is the most important beginning steps. Once to that point, good music on the iPod, and set up near a window to watch what the outdoors brings by in terms of daily wild-life on the hundred acre wood across the way. No- focus and concentration on those feathers is required.