Architecture, Drawing 

Jim Arnosky began sketching summer in his garden, at the base of an old and rotting tree. From the garden the path of his sketching meandered through the yard and around the house, then wandered off to nearby meadows, fields, rivers, and lakes, on an artistic journey of discovery in a season ripe with promise.

Summer kept its promise, offering countless delights to observe and draw. Catbirds and their hungry nestling. A gnarled tree trunk on the leeward shore of a lake. Sheep huddling against a drenching summer shower. The shapely gunwales of a beached canoe. "These summer sketches are about things I love doing, as well as things I enjoy drawing," the artist comments.

With the same joy and reverence that suffuse "Drawing from Nature", "Drawing Life in Motion", and his other award-winning books, Jim Arnosky invites artists of all ages to experience nature close up. In his rich second book about seasonal drawing, insightful narrative, gentle commentary, and spontaneous, sure illustration express the artist and naturalist's hope that readers will follow their own paths to sketching outdoors in summer.