May 14, 2016: Artists at work

Rob introduced today's nature-art workshop with a slide show of prehistoric nature art — cave paintings from Altamira, Chauvet, and Lasceaux in France. He pointed out that these vibrant works of art were created with just three colours: black, from charcoal, and red and yellow from iron-based ochre. The forms are simple yet evocative because [...]

2017-05-18T20:36:19-04:00June 8th, 2016|Macoun Field Club|

June 4, 2016: an afternoon at the waterfall

There are several places where we could have got into the water on this hot day — the floating bog (pictured at the top of this page), a deep cool basin in a beaver pond up on the plateau, or at the narrows on Indian Creek. But Morgan asked to go to a fondly remembered [...]

2017-05-18T20:36:20-04:00June 8th, 2016|Macoun Field Club|