Videos

Following robins, crocuses, and daffodils forsythia bushes are beautiful blooming Heralds of Spring that brighten warming days around the farm. These heirloom shrubs were planted generations ago and are a welcome delight to insects and photographers alike. They often beat the dandelions to bloom, as […]

When Winter’s chill is warming and frost and freezes let up a bit the Spring Heralds grow antsy and begin to push up the snow with green. Then when the crystals melt with warmer days the green grows until buds appear and then one day […]

Storm watching from the farm as ominous clouds roll in, hail falls, and winds gain speed. Gratefully damage here was minor but just North of here was a tornado in Springboro and further East the hail damage was much worse.

Tuesday, October 2, 2018 brought several funnel clouds and tornadoes to Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and multiple tornadoes across the Commonwealth and into New England. This is the first video showing one confirmed tornado, possible a second, as well as funnel clouds, part of which damaged […]

Slow moving and very silly, three-toed sloths are surely unique critters. This Mama and Baby Sloth hang out in the treetops as the moon rises in this illustration painted for Sloth Day. This picture is part of the “Moonrise Memories Collection.” I used Adobe Photoshop […]

An elephant calf and cow look at their reflections, together, at the edge of the water in the soft shade of trees. A watering hole can be many things, including a meeting place, but under the shade of the tress and with the evening light […]

Three silly lion cubs play and snuggle around and on Mama Lioness on a hill, catching the light dapples coming through the shadows of brush and trees as the moon rises in the sky. This is “Catching the Light” though the littlest cub on top […]

Under bright clouds reflecting the sun’s light, a Siberian Tiger and her two cubs have some quality family time just after sunset on a rock in the mountains. Maybe Mama is laughing, or maybe she is trying to sleep but the kids are wide awake. […]

Today is Panda Day! A special day dedicated to those adorable and silly giant pandas. This is picture of a Panda Mama and cub on a snowy mountain at night under a moonlit sky is also part of the Starlight Safari Collection and was painted […]

On a bright moonlit night a polar bear cub meets his reflection, but his sibling finds reflective ice just too scary and runs back to mama to hide. In honor of and on International Polar Bear Day 2019 this digital painting of a Polar Bear […]

This illustration of Humpback Whales breaching under the Aurora Borealis filled sky portrays a cow and calf jumping out of the water as other whales in the distance swim, breach, or even just peek out of the water: a dance of the great mammals under […]

In the twilight light before dawn a hippo calf and cow eat not far from the water’s edge as the stars and moon shining brightly in the sky. This illustration was painted in Adobe Photoshop with a Wacom Cintiq 13HD and its Pro Pen as […]

This Mama and Baby Zebra (Zebra mare and foal) illustration was painted in honor of those dizzyingly adorable equids we all love for Zebra Day 2019. Each Starlight Safari Illustration is painted for a specific World Wildlife Day, such as International Zebra Day, which is […]

This illustration was painted on the computer with the reference photo next to it so I could try to capture the character of a cute soybean eating fawn named Seek. Listen to a silly story of this little spotted fawn as I paint a picture […]

Panda Day is a special day dedicated to those adorable giant pandas and raise awareness of the endangered status. This illustration shows a cold and frosty night in the mountains under a moonlit sky, where a panda is helping her young cub to climb a […]

The illustration was drawn on and for International Polar Bear Day 2018 and is part of the Starlight Safari Collection. Two little bear cubs play with mama Bear under a bright moonlit sky with Aurora Borealis in the distance above the ice fields in the […]