Bonding With The Landscape Series

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I worked on the first four warbler illustrations from day 1-36 then switched to writing narrative for these neo-tropical wood warblers. It took awhile to get comfortable with the transition. When I started writing, I missed the music of illustrating (literally and figuratively). When I resumed illustrating on day 75 with the Magnolia and Canada Warblers, I couldn’t stop thinking about new narrative. I’m learning to appreciate and respect the balance necessary to accomplish my goal of illustrating and writing the Bonding With The Landscape Series.

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About Raven

I am a naturalist. I co-founded Headwaters Environmental Station, a non-profit/tax-exempt environmental education facility at Misery Bay in the Keweenaw Peninsula with my husband, Michael Scheiwe. As a licensed Master Bird Bander and Scientific Collector, I had unprecedented opportunities to teach environment/ecological education to children for 20 years. I co-produced the program, Journeys Into A Sense Of Place, narrative readings that heighten consciousness of community and landscape (6 yrs.) for MN Public Radio. I have a working knowledge of taxidermy (study skins) and annotated and mounted plant specimens at the UWO herbarium. I appreciate the freedom of kayaking, biking, fly fishing, birding, harvesting/drying wild edibles. Illustrating, writing, hiking, photography, and cooking are essential daily activities. I earned a BS in Psychology and an MA in Education from NMU.

2 thoughts on “Bonding With The Landscape Series”

  1. Correction: The first four illustrations were done from day 1-45 And from day 46-85 I worked on the narrative and the fifth illustration. There are 23 Neo-tropical Wood Warblers that nest in the UP.

    Note: I worked from photos for this fifth illustration: Magnolia Warbler (Setophaga magnolia) by Harold Stiver; Canada Warbler (Wilsonia canard ensues) by David Speiser

    The branch: Northern White Cedar (Thuja occidental is).

  2. Nice to see some of your illustrations, Raven. Thanks, too, for sharing some of your process with us with your comments about balance.

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