What is the California Field Atlas?
The California Field Atlas is a love story. California is the land where I was born and having spent a happy life walking through its forests and sleeping out under […]
BOOK TOUR -TRACKING THUNDERBIRDS
We are about to embark on the book tour for the California Field Atlas, which ships from HEYDAY in the next week or so. It is an incredibly dynamic time […]
The Ghostdancer Interview
Interview with Obi Kaufmann by @theghostdancer Rhiannon Griego http://www.ghostdancercollection.com/blog Wilderness preservationist, illustrator, poet and artist Obi Kaufmann is this week’s maker. Obi and I have been circulating one another’s work for […]
Indigofera Jeans x Coyote Thunder collaboration
Indigofera Jeans x Coyote Thunder collaboration Personality and place comingle in the latest offering from Indigofera jeans. Working for over a year with California artist Obi Kaufmann, the Stockholm-based outfitters […]
The Best of Outdoor Retailer
I don’t like things. Stuff generally bores me. Last week, I was at Outdoor Retailer, at the center of stuff designed to sell the idea of having fun in the […]
In Defense of Public Lands
The current presidential administration is making an unprecidented attack against the preservation of our National Monuments. With a campaign of false information and public relations trickery, this president seeks to […]
Malcolm Margolin on the River
Malcolm Margolin proves again and again himself as a beacon to all manner of creative genius. Earlier this week, he gathered a cadre of so many remarkable souls from around […]
Circular Reoccurrence in the Anthropocene
Circular Reoccurrence in the Anthropocene: Eight recent books authored by women that address the most important themes of our time by Obi Kaufmann The trust I afford the long-narrative form […]
Preserving Giant Sequoia National Monument
(published by Calwild.org) Our public lands are under existential attack from the Trump administration and Congress. In just the first five months of the Trump presidency, we have already seen […]
Trail Paintings Portfolio – Early Summer
Note: I’ve posted 15 recent trail paintings on my etsy shop. You can link to them here or by hitting the button on the left. This group is a bit different […]
The COYOTETHUNDER portfolio of applied arts, 2017
I regularly work on a project basis for a wide variety of clients. I am presenting here a portfolio of my most recent work which I am calling Applied Arts, […]
Preordering the California Field Atlas
The Heyday Fall 2017 catalog is here and my work is on the cover. Heyday is the publisher and I could not imagine a more fine group of brilliant humans […]
Defend the National Monuments
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has been ordered to review 27 National Monuments designated by the Antiquities Act over the past 21 years to look for so-called abuses of […]
Spring Trail Paintings
The gallery of spring harvest #trailpaintings for the pending California Field Atlas, all available for purchase. All are original, hand-painted works that measures 5-1/2″ x 7-1/2″. About the artist: Poet […]
WILDLAND LEGISLATION THREATS 2017
In the overtly politicized, toxic rhetoric of the business-first congressional stance against public land conservation, the next few years is going to be a tough-run for those of us who don’t want […]
Drawing Inspiration From Nature
Drawing Inspiration from Nature Obi Kaufmann’s illustrations and poetry reflect the full spectrum of California’s wilderness and is dedicated to its preservation. by Daniel Crockett for Wildside, The Enchanted Life […]
