by Mindy Lighthipe | Nov 20, 2021 | Animal Rescue, Bird Art, Colored Pencil, Conservation, Costa Rica, Environmental Concerns, Uncategorized
The Spectacle Owl , Pulsatrix perspicillata is the first owl I ever saw in the wild. I was walking in the rainforest on the Caribbean side of Costa Rica when suddenly I felt as if I was being watched. I looked around and didn’t see anything, until I looked up....
by Mindy Lighthipe | Oct 27, 2021 | Bird Art, Colored Pencil, Conservation, Environmental Concerns, Native Species, PanPastels
The Burrowing Owl is native to my home state of Florida. I went to Cape Coral to visit the home of a large colony of Burrowing Owls. The large population is stable because a large housing development site was stopped. It was stopped to protect the home of these...
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by Mindy Lighthipe | Jan 23, 2021 | Butterfly Art, Colored Pencil, Insect Art, Uncategorized, Workshops
Drawing the Beauty of Nature Presents……. I remember the first time I saw the Madagascan Sunset Moth. It was at a Curiosity Shop on Columbus Ave near the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City. I couldn’t believe the spectacular colors...
by Mindy Lighthipe | Oct 14, 2020 | Animal Rescue, Colored Pencil, Conservation, Costa Rica, Uncategorized
2021 is almost here! Many of you are wondering whether it is safe to travel to Costa Rica??? As of November 1, 2020 Costa Rica is opening the country to outsiders and that includes people from the USA. I have been in close touch with Holbrook Travel about protocols...
by Mindy Lighthipe | Oct 1, 2020 | Animal Rescue, Colored Pencil, Costa Rica, Environmental Concerns
I LOVE Sloths! For over 30 years I have traveled to Costa Rica. Whenever I am there I always see sloths in the wild. This particular sloth is “Millie” the 2 fingered sloth. A park ranger rescued her when she was only a few weeks old. A huge mudslide...
by Mindy Lighthipe | Aug 27, 2020 | Colored Pencil, How-To, Online Art Classes, Uncategorized
A while back I was approached by JerrysArtarama.com to do a review of the 120 Set of Cezanne Colored Pencils. I have been so busy with getting my class ready for the fall semester at UFL that I hardly had the time to do a proper review until now. The pencils arrived...
