If you’re looking to fill your backpack with nature books this fall, you’ll want to include Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry.

See how Angell captures claws, beaks and body language - and think about how you might draw your own backyard birds. Witness the black-crowned night heron stepping slowly through the reeds, the Cook’s petrel slinking toward a dark nest. Hauber, Bird Day traces the around-the-clock activities of our feathered friends in short vignettes, brought to life by Angell’s detailed illustrations.

Tony Angell, known for his exquisite sculptures and drawings of birds, is showing the images he contributed to the forthcoming book Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives (Sept. Next door, at Foster/White Gallery, another renowned Northwest artist offers lessons in wildlife. And those wrists! A few tiny lines speak a whole anatomy, and an expression of deep thought, as seen on the man’s face. See the massive arms on the closest figure? But wait, Lawrence hasn’t fully outlined the arms at all - he’s implied them with his visual powers of suggestion. Look at his 1977 lithograph “Carpenters,” for example. The show serves as an education in his powerful use of color blocking and simple lines, not to mention the African American history he embeds in his work. 7 - 30) by American painting legend (and revered University of Washington art professor) Jacob Lawrence. Greg Kucera Gallery has a new exhibit of Prints and Works on Paper (Sept. You can start with a couple shows landing this month (both opening for First Thursday in Pioneer Square tonight).ĪrtSEA: Notes on Northwest Culture is Crosscut’s weekly arts & culture newsletter. Brain scientists say new arts experiences create new neural pathways, so consider your artful wanderings a productive education. Even if you graduated long ago, you can always go back to school with the arts.

Spiral art drawing