I haven’t posted any poetry for awhile, so here are two that I rather like. They are from “Modern Mongolian Poetry”, which was published by The State Publishing House in 1986. This was before the “changeover” from socialism, which started in 1990. So there will be 20th anniversary celebrations in Mongolia next year. Both photos [...]
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Mongolia Monday: Two Poems
Posted in Mongolia, Mongolian Culture, tagged Mongolia, Mongolian poetry on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mongolia Monday- My Other Mongol Joke
Posted in Mongolia, Mongolian Culture, On a Lighter Note, Travel, tagged buuz, Mongol humor, Mongolia on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Buuz is one of the most popular foods in Mongolia. They are a small, round steamed “dumpling” with a mutton or beef filling. Mongols make (and eat) zillions of them for their holidays. Just for fun we had a “buuz party” a couple of weeks ago. One of the guests, and the chief buuz maker, [...]
Mongolia Monday- A Mongol Joke
Posted in Mongolia, Mongolian Culture, tagged Mongol humor, Mongol joke, Mongolia on October 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One of the many things I enjoy about traveling to other countries is learning what is considered humorous and to what extent it overlaps with what Americans find funny. This last July in Mongolia, I finally got a chance to explore this with my guide, who spoke very good English. I asked him about Mongol [...]
Mongolia Monday: Wildflowers, Part 3
Posted in Gardening, Mongolia, Mongolia 2009-AFC Flag Expedition, Travel, tagged Gun-Galuut Nature Reserve, Mongolia, Mongolian wildlflowers on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the final installment of images that I took of wildflowers during my AFC Flag Expedition to Mongolia this past July. As before corrections and identifications of flowers I couldn’t find in the guidebook I used, “Flowers of Hustai National Park”woulo be greatly appreciated.
New Painting Debut; and the Big Argali Painting, Part 3
Posted in Mongolia, Mongolia 2009-AFC Flag Expedition, Paintings and process, The Artist, Wildlife on October 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Writers of fiction say that they will have a story all plotted out, but sometimes the characters take control and things go off in unexpected directions. That’s more or less what I feel happened with the painting below. I wanted to do a big argali, because, well, I just needed to do it. About halfway [...]
Mongolia Monday- Wildflowers, Part 2
Posted in Gardening, Mongolia, Mongolia 2009-AFC Flag Expedition, Travel, tagged Gun-, Gun-Galuut Nature Reserve, Mongolia, Mongolian wildflowers on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Continuing on from last week:
Once again, the identifications are my best guess based on the field guide “Flowers of Hustai National Park”. Corrections more than welcome.
Except where noted all plants photographed at the Gun-Galuut Nature Reserve.
The Big Argali Painting, Part 2
Posted in Mongolia, Paintings and process, The Artist, Wildlife, tagged argali, argali mountain sheep, argali painting, Mongolian argali on October 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When we last left the big argali painting (36×40″), I had worked through the composition and drawing. You can read that post here.
I finally got back to it this week. The first step was to use the good old grid system to transfer the drawing in pencil. Then I restated and refined it with a [...]
Mongolia Monday- Wildflowers, Part 1 (Identification help wanted)
Posted in Gardening, Mongolia, Mongolia 2009-AFC Flag Expedition, tagged Asian wildflowers, Gun-Galuut, Gun-Galuut Nature Reserve, Mongolia, Mongolia wildflowers, Mongolian wetland, Mt. Baits, wildflowers on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On my previous trips to Mongolia it was either spring or fall, too early or too late to really see much in the way of wildflowers. There were some at Ikh Nartiin Chuluu last year, but I had no way to identify them. Then I found the field guide “Flowers of Hustai National Park” back [...]
A Special Visit to the American Museum of Natural History
Posted in Environment/conservation, Mongolia, North America, Paintings and process, The Artist, Travel, Wildlife, tagged American Museum of Natural HIstory, dioramas, Flaming Cliffs, fossil dinosaur eggs, fossils, protoceratops, taxidermy on September 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I was one of a large group of artists in attendance this past weekend at the opening of the Artists for Conservation juried show “The Art of Conservation”, which is at the Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum in Oradell, New Jersey. There were two full days of activities planned for us and we made the most [...]
Four New Paintings!
Posted in Mongolia, Mongolia 2009-AFC Flag Expedition, Mongolian Culture, Paintings and process, The Artist, Wildlife, tagged argali, Baga Gazriin Chuluu, bighorn sheep, equine art, horse art, Khomiin Tal, Mongol horses, Mongolia, Przewalski's horse, takhi, wildlife painting, Yellowstone National Park on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are four more new paintings to go with the two I posted last week. I had a problem with the background in the last one and thought I’d show how it was and how I changed it.
Here is one of the takhi (Przewalski’s horse) that I saw when I was at the Khomiin Tal [...]
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