Monday, June 24, 2013

Junior Ranger 2013 at White Ranch

This weekend was our favorite weekend of the summer, the Jefferson County Junior Ranger camping weekend at White Ranch park.  The Jefferson County park rangers do such an amazing job!

Photo Gallery from the weekend

The programs are creative and outstanding, with one of my favorites being a nature / art station, encouraging the Jr. Rangers to bring sketch books and to draw, paint or sketch their surroundings in nature.

Anya on the watercolor table

I spent much of the day at the art table, as nothing is more fun than spending a day sketching and watercoloring.  

The view from the art table


Anya and I collaborate on a piece together

One of the programs was insect collection.  It was tremendous to see the quantity of bio mass in each swipe of the net in the grasses.  
Kees and Ethan capturing samples

We caught a tremendous variety of insects, from the very small to the large and eye catching.  Here is a sketch painting of our favorite finds.
A beautiful beetle

I love simple watercolor studies and with the forests all around, I found this tree calling to me.

A simple tree study




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