“Boy Painting In The Woods” — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“I’ve often lost myself,
in order to find the burn
that keeps everything awake”
―
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Boy Painting In The Woods Leave a comment
“I’ve often lost myself,
Impressionist Oil Painter In Sabino Canyon — II Leave a comment
Ken Requard Painting In Sabino Canyon (Kenrequard.com) — Photo-Artistry be kenne
This is the second posting on Ken’s painting in Sabino Canyon, the first was last Friday (March 1, 2019). What a perfect time of year to be painting in Sabino Canyon, especially creek scenes.
“I find my inspiration in the created world but it is just a starting point on the journey of creating art. I am excited to find the inner essence of a place or a moment in time and then apply my own emotions. It is exciting to see the right shapes, colors and values come together. Each element in a painting (a shape with value and color) is like a note in music. In a pleasing musical composition, there are just the right number and type of notes in the right arrangement.” — Ken Requard
Show Announcement & Reception Show Announcement & Reception
Sonoran Plein Air Painters and Rillito Park Foundation Present:
“Off to the Races Art Show”
March 2nd-March 19th
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Impressionist Oil Painter In Sabino Canyon 1 comment
Impressionist Oil Painter In Sabino Canyon Near Sabino Creek (Ken Requard) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Everything on the face of the earth
is constantly being transformed
Because the Earth is alive and has a Soul.
— Paulo Coelho
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December Fall Colors Along Sabino Creek 1 comment
December Fall Colors Along Sabino Creek — Images by kenne
None desert colors
Life is all about contrasts
Neither here or there.
— kenne
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Sabino Canyon Cottonwood: Diversity Near The Creek Leave a comment
Sabino Canyon Cottonwood: Diversity Near The Creek — Image by kenne
it’s leaf-peeper time
for desert trees near water
turning sun colors
light up cloudy days
early signs of spring colors
buds on brittlebush
thinking of poems
I walk collecting images
I may never use
nature’s distinction
a wild garden made of time
rhythm of cycles
the trails are narrow
filled with echoes of past steps
now sounds of silence
floating gray clouds pass
still, light shines through the shadows
as twisting leaves fall
two young girls passed by
visitors from the cold north
loose-breasted sun nymphs
time has moved by fast
in need of a time machine
bygone days are gone
— kenne
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Father and Sons — A Life Teaching Moment 2 comments
Father and Sons In Sabino Creek — Photo-Artistry by kenne
A life teaching moment.
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Spring Break at Sabino Creek Leave a comment
Spring Break at Sabino Creek — Image by kenne
Children enjoy their
Spring break at Sabino creek
I turn and go back.
— kenne
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Water In The Canyon II Leave a comment
Water In The Canyon II — Image by kenne
Spring temps near eighty
Icy cold water flows —
Swarms of new insects.
— kenne
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Three Panoramas of Water Running In Sabino Creek Leave a comment
Above the Dam
Water Flowing Over The Dam
Creek Flow At The Dam Low-Water Crossing
Three Panoramas of Water Running In Sabino Creek, the First Time in Months — Images by kenne
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January In Sabino Canyon Leave a comment
January In Sabino Canyon (View from the Bluff Trail, January 1, 2018) — Panorama by kenne
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Sun Through the Trees Near Sabino Creek — Image by kenne
This is autumn by the creek
almost anything can happen.
This is where you will find
the first morning light,
little fish in small stagnant pools —
Do they sense time is running out?
— kenne
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Creek Reflections — Computer Art by kenne
Sky above,
water below,
or is it
the other way around —
it’s your call
in our upside-down
world.
— kenne
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Children, A Stream And Connecting With Nature Leave a comment
Children, a Stream, and Connecting with Nature — Computer Art by kenne
A picture may seem not what it is.
Two teens may appear more interested in a
phone than a stream slowly passing at their feet.
Like most images, it’s up to the viewer
to place it in some element of their reality.
Put in the contact the image was taken,
the teens are sharing pictures taken in
my iPhone photography class where they
learn to connect the eye, to the mind, to the heart.
— kenne
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Sabino Creek Above The Dam 1 comment
Sabino Creek Above The Dam — Image by kenne
Desert Oasis
Shaded escape from the heat —
Nature’s waterhole.
Sometimes drying up
Before the monsoon season —
Desert high and dry.
— kenne
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Predator And Prey 1 comment
On Thursday of this past week, Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists were teaching two first grade classes about predator and prey in a program we call “Now You See It.” My responsibility for the month of April is to coordinate the Thursday schedule with the teachers. Once the children are in the canyon, my job is one of “managing by walking around.”
While in the riparian area near the creek and dam I could hear a nearby cooper’s hawk. Following the sound, I spotted him on a dead limb high above the creek where he had caught a small bird. What a “real time” example of predator and prey for the day’s lesson. What follows are images and a video of the encounter, which I shared with the children.
— kenne
(Click on any of the tiled images for a larger view in a slideshow format.)
Cooper’s Hawk Images and Video by kenne
Predator And Prey — Cooper’s Hawk
The varying modes of flight exhibited by our diurnal birds of prey
have always been to me a subject of great interest,
especially as by means of them I have found myself enabled
to distinguish one species from another,
to the farthest extent of my power of vision.
— John James Audubon
