mappingcat @mappingcat@mastodon.art
Geographer by trade, and student of landscapes, urban and natural. I like sketching, pen and watercolor, photography. And cats of course.
Got up early this morning to watch the total lunar #eclipse. Where we live the moon set just before dawn but still in partial eclipse.
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Two views of the Mondavi Center For the Performing Arts. We had our monthly Let's Draw Davis #sketchcrawl today!
#watercolor #penandwash #MastoArt #urbansketching
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M45 - The Pleiades. Some more #astrophotography. I took this with my 70mm aperture refractor; this is a stacked set of 39 60" exposures. Processed with #Siril and #RawTherapee.
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Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars on 7 Jan 2018 at 1629 UTC. I got up before dawn today to take some #photos. There was a halo around the moon at the time, and it quickly clouded over completely. Lots of rain expected tomorrow.
Roused out of bed before dawn this morning to look at the conjunction of Mars and Jupiter. It's the closest conjunction since 2004; the separation is about 15 arc-minutes. Tomorrow early morning should be good as well - look to the south-southeast. If the clouds hold off I have #astrophotography plans for the evening.
#astronomy
Grasses in the local arboretum.
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Jet Pens articles are so good, y'all. https://www.jetpens.com/blog/waterproof-pens-and-inks-for-watercolors/pt/954 #traditionalArt #watercolors #penAndInk
M33 - the Triangulum Galaxy. I am now on an #astrophotography kick, and have hauled out my small equatorial mount accordingly. Camera is a Panasonic GX85 with a 40-150mm telephoto lens set at 150mm and f/5.6. This is a stacked set of 30 60" exposures processed in #Siril and #RawTherapee.
#artwithopensource #photography https://mastodon.art/media/6IyNLe8mLdyUvMTvrq4
It's been very windy today which frustrated my plans to go sketching in the morning. By the late afternoon I had to get out to do a sketch despite it still being breezy. Here's a view of our creek and the fields to the south.
Missed my train connection coming home but this gave me time and I had art materials to do a couple of sketches while waiting for the next one .
In general there are two ways to do #penandwash drawings. Draw in ink first, and paint over that, or paint in #watercolor first, and add ink linework after that. I usually do the former, but I did these sketches with the latter approach. I want to try more this way. #mastoart
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From our #sketchcrawl downtown today.
#urbansketching #penandwash #mastoart https://mastodon.art/media/m7GCRSvZ5xLlgfrs9bQ
Taking in the afternoon sun on #Caturday.
#cats #catsofmastodon #photography #mastocats https://mastodon.art/media/cwXxcBAut4qsgybSCmk
New scratcher. With catnip. Stoned cats. https://mastodon.art/media/y7VN_A7zI3aTEwgx8OQ
Two photos from the garden this afternoon. Lovely to see the hummingbird sage (Salvia spathacea) coming into bloom.
Not so many pomegranates left any more; it's a treat to have them around.
#photography #photo #macrophotography #flowers
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Nine prints of a cat. I'm learning my way around the new printer. There is lots of variation to be had in mid-tone grays depending upon the print settings.
Portrait of a cat. This is the inaugural photo taken with my new macro lens.
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California fuschia (Epilobium canum).
#flowers #photography #mastoart https://mastodon.art/media/f6JYvT7m6UCntROeuPg
Wild grape vines. This photo is from our annual Thanksgiving ritual walk up a canyon in the mountain range west of here.
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