Showing posts with label Maine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maine. Show all posts

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Orr's Island

A few sketches from a recent weekend on Orr's Island off the coast near Brunswick, Maine. Many thanks to our gracious hosts and close friends, the MacAvoy's. 

© Rob Dunlavey
a small cove near the house. Beyond that horizon is the wide and wild Atlantic Ocean

© Rob Dunlavey
A gull on a boulder at low tide

sketchbook spread: sailboat and cormorant

sailboats

sailboats

© Rob Dunlavey

sparrows roosting on a stacked of old lobster traps
© Rob Dunlavey

another view of Lowell Cove (ink, wash, litho crayon)
© Rob Dunlavey

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Students Island

calm waters at Mooslelookmeguntic Lake
06-22-12, Rangeley, ME
litho crayon

A family of Common Mergansers (a mother and ten young)
The ducklings were very antic and charming as they zoomed over the waves one moment and then huddled close to Mom the next. The odds of survival seem so low yet they seem to approach life with such vigor and élan.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Student's Island, Maine

Last week, after dropping our daughters off at a summer camp, my wife and I headed west and north to Mooselookmeguntic Lake in Western Maine. We did this last year. It was nice to return to the pristine shores of Student's Island
It is a pleasure staying on a small island with rudimentary camping facilities: a flat spot to pitch a tent and a fire pit. We hear loons and watch the weather, read books, and cook over a campfire. We get about by canoe and our feet. There is a wonderful trail around the island.
I try to sketch as much as possible depending on the weather. The weather is variable; this year: rain, mist, drizzle and blowing rain! Such variety! External events forced us to cut this trip short but hopefully next year we'll get at least three nights in.

a trail entering the thick forest

Trees clinging to the rocky shore

Across the lake is Bald Mountain. This is the view from the tent door.