Debby Kaspari grew up near San Francisco, sketching and observing nature in the hills and marshes at the edge of the city. A graduate of California College of the Arts, she pursued a career in illustration with a strong emphasis on drawing. Drawing has since become the primary focus of her work. As a dedicated field artist she uses her signature gesture drawings, field notes and camera to accentuate the rhythms and movements of her animal, plant and landscape subjects. Most of her work is done on paper, either in graphite and pastel, pen and ink, or watercolor; acrylic on board or canvas is used as well.
				Her work has been shown in Art and the Animal, Society of Animal Artists; Impressions of New England, Art of the Animal Kingdom and American Artists Abroad, Bennington Center for the Arts, Vermont; Birds in Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum; and Focus on Nature, New York State Museum. Honors include Harvard Fellowship /Artist in Residence, Harvard Forest (2008) and the Don and Virginia Eckelberry Fellowship (2007). She has taught field sketching and nature journaling and created exhibit graphics and large murals for the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Debby lives in Norman with her husband Mike, a professor of ecology at the University of Oklahoma.
Doane's Falls, Athol, MA. Plein air pastel and graphite on tan Rives BFK; 22"x30"