Debby Kaspari grew up drawing, painting, and sketching from nature in the San Francisco Bay Area. She graduated from California College of the Arts, studying illustration and graphic design. Kaspari is a Signature Member of the Society of Animal Artists. A solo show of her field work was held at the Museum of American Bird Art, and the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History mounted a multi-media exhibition of her tropical art and field recordings. Her work has been shown in Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum’s Birds in Art and acquired for their permanent collection. She’s illustrated and written for Bird Watcher’s Digest, Oklahoma Today, and The Artists Magazine, and has been Artist-in-Residence at Elkhorn Slough, Harvard Forest, and University of Montana’s Flathead Lake field station. Drawing the Motmot is Kaspari’s blog: a portfolio of sketches and musings from the rainforest and beyond. Her favorite moments in the field include sketching cotingas, parrots, and tanagers from the top of a tree in the Amazon canopy, drawing white storks and wagtails in Spain, and Mississippi kites from the pandemic safety of her front yard. She plays the banjo, is married to ecologist Mike Kaspari, and lives in Norman, Oklahoma.