Last year I purchased a beautiful journal from WonderCabin on Etsy.  The pages are filled with 140# traditional Fabriano hot-press watercolo...

Working on a post-burn survey in Foard, County, Texas, we came across this small bird nest with a single speckled egg. I don't have a cl...

I was busy sketching the top cormorant at our local 'duck pond' when a second cormorant flew in, partially displacing the first.  ...

Here are some recent sketches of weeds/brush that I've been doing in the mornings. I love sketching at this particular spot because it h...

I've begun a habit recently of keeping a sketchbook in my car and doing a small 10-15 minute pen sketch before I go in for work in the m...

In an effort to complete more nature sketching, I decided to do a lot of little sketches instead of trying to sit outside for a few hours an...

The only nature sketching I've been privileged to do lately is sketching some overgrown brush and vines at the edge of a parking lot. I...

©2012 Carolyn A Pappas, Small Nature Objects . Ink and Colored Pencil in large handbook sketchbook. A top of an acorn, a piece of bark wi...

©2011 Carolyn A. Pappas, 10-9-11 (Covered Bridge). Pen and ink in large handbook sketchbook. Although I didn't have much to talk about ...

5 October  finds us on a bus tour of the north east section of the South Nation River, sketching in my journal when as we stop at various pl...

I think I may have mentioned before how much I like the grasses... so, here are a couple of pages of grasses with a little sage thrown in th...

©2011 Carolyn A. Pappas, 7-17-11 Nature Sketching (Wooded Area) . Ink and watercolor in large watercolor moleskine. We are in the middle of ...

©2011 Carolyn A. Pappas, 6-5-2011 Sketchbook Page (At the Edge of the Woods). Pen and marker in large handbook sketchbook. I made this sket...

I sketched these white and light pink rhododendron blossoms this morning. I haven't seen that color recently as most of them around here...

The other day (Tuesday) I went out to the mall to do some after Christmas shopping with my mother. The mall was very busy, so much so that ...

I've been so busy lately with a lot of things. Most of them had nothing to do with botanical painting, drawing or gardening. A bad thin...