Recent Posts
- An introduction to Nature Journaling
- Learn to Draw Gourds with John Muir Laws
- Learn to Draw Trees with John Muir Laws
- Jack and Henry talk about Dyslexia
- Summer 2023 Travel Journal Flip
- Background as Context
- NJEF: Inquiry Modeling and Scaffolding
- NJEF: Back to School
- Rendering Different Textures
- NJEF: Building Online Learning Communities
- NJEF: Chemistry and Physics
- Light and Shadows
- NJEF: Botanical Journaling
- NJEF: New Activity, Sorting Cones
- Birds in Flight with Peter Cavanagh
How to Draw Birds
- Birds in Flight with Peter Cavanagh
- New Favorite Color: Cobalt Teal Blue
- Swan Song
- Desert Discoveries with Mesilla Audubon
- Find Your Inner Birdcasso!
- Drawing Birds with Debby Kaspari
- Birds in Colored Pencil with Jordan Silvia
- The Backyard Hawk
- How to draw the Great Blue Heron
- Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds
- Drawing the Birds of Argentina
- Puffins and Page Layouts
- Drawing the Macaw’s Head and Face
- Drawing Great Blue Herons
- Drawing Owls
- Camouflage in Birds
- Mountain Meadows and Nightingales
- Drawing Bird Postures, Proportions, and Angles
- Gesture Sketching Birds
- Drawing Iridescent Birds
- Sketching Raptors on Toned Paper
- How to Draw Ducks
- How to Draw Warblers
- Sketching for Birders with Mesilla Audubon
- John Busby: nature journaling inspiration
- Toucan Draw It!
- How to Draw Seabirds on Land
- Point Blue: Migratory Shorebird Project
- The Beak of the Finch
- Drawing Birds on Toned Paper
- Drawing Shorebirds and Waterbirds
- Let’s Draw Warblers: Bring Your Warbler to Life
- Let’s Draw Warblers: Anatomy and Angles
- Drawing Pinyon Jays
- How to Draw Bird Tails
- How to Draw Hummingbirds
- Seabirds in Flight
- Let’s Draw a Stellar’s Jay!
- Lessons Learned in the Ecuadorian Cloud Forest
- Exploring the Arctic and How to Draw Snowy Owls
- How to Draw Owls II
- How to Draw Owls I
- Drawing the Bittern
- Drawing Butterflies and Rare Birds
- How to Draw a Woodcock
- Raptors in Flight II
- Raptors in Flight I
- How to Draw Bird Legs and Feet
- Bird in the Hand: Virtual Nature Journaling with Point Blue
- NJC, Episode 21, Birdsong in your Nature Journal
- How to draw birds with open beaks, flying birds, and mixing dull or vibrant colors
- Drawing the Spruce Grouse
- Birder’s Field Journal FUNdamentals
- Live sketching with a Great Horned Owl
- How to Draw a Bird, 3/4 view
- Tally marks, Colored Pencil Wren, and Gull on Toned Paper
- How to start a bird sketch
- How to Draw and Paint Bird Nests
- How to Draw Duck Wings
- Point Lobos Journal Page
- How to Draw A Turkey
- Drawing the Capercaillie, 3/4 view (video)
- Nature Journaling for Birders
- Drawing and Painting A Crow (video)
- Drawing Owls and mixing colors
- Marin County Journaling (video)
- Journaling in the High Sierra (video)
- Nature Journaling for Birders (video)
- Drawing Raptors and other Large Birds in Flight
- How to Draw Birds at All Angles
- Bird Masterclass part 1: How to Make Bird Drawings Come Alive (Video)
- How to Draw Herons and Egrets (video)
- Penguins and Conservation, part 2 (video)
- How to Paint Birds with Watercolor–part 2 (video)
- How to Paint Birds with Watercolor (video)
- How to Draw a California Condor in Flight (video)
- Drawing Penguins (video)
- Drawing Hummingbirds and Conversation with Maria Coryell-Martin (video)
- How to Draw Bird Beaks (video)
- How to draw Raptors, Hawks, Eagles, and Owls (video)
- How to draw Shorebirds and Waterfowl (video)
- How to Draw Garden Birds (video)
- Iridescence- How to draw the Wood Duck’s Head (video)
- How to Draw Hawk and Duck heads (video)
- How to Draw Bird Feet (video)
- Northern Parula with Watercolor Pencils Step-by-Step
- Paint a Blue Jay step-by-step
- The New Bird Drawing System (video)
- Blue Grosbeak & Watercolor Washes
- Fast Wing Details
- How to draw a Red-eyed Verio Step-by-Step
- Drawing Birds: Heads, Wings, & Feet (video workshop)
- Drawing Birds: side, front, back and 3/4 views (video workshop)
- How to paint a Sandhill Crane landscape, step-by-step
- How to Draw a Sandhill Crane: Basic Lines
- How to draw Sandhill Cranes: Anatomy for Artists
- How to Draw Sandhill Cranes (video workshop)
- Monochrome Study: Blackburnian Warbler Step-by-Step
- Monochrome Study: White-breasted Nuthatch step-by-step
- How to Draw Songbirds (video workshop)
- How to draw ducks and waterfowl (video workshop)
- Sketching Shorebirds (video workshop)
- Drawing birds in Arabic
- How to draw a Bewick’s Wren Step-by-Step
- Simplifying Bird Plumage
- Drawing Birds-Suggesting Detail without getting lost in the feathers (video workshop)
- Using shapes to construct a drawing (how to draw a heron with gouache)
- How to use gouache in your field journal (video workshop)
- Fiscal Shrike: drawing with shapes and gouache
- Shape vs. Structure: Integrating two ways of drawing (video workshop)
- Exploring values with graphite pencil: Great Horned Owl Skull
- How do straight lines curve on a rounded surface?
- How to Draw an Orange-crowned Warbler step-by-step
- How to draw a Song Sparrow step-by-step
- How to draw a Lazuli Bunting step-by-step
- How to draw shorebirds: Step by Step
- How to Draw Ducks: Profile View
- How to Draw Ducks: The Head
- How to draw a bird: Scrub Jay Step-by-Step Demonstration
- How to Draw Hawks in Flight
- Drawing Hawks in Flight
- How to Draw Raptors on Toned Paper- Exploring Contrast
- How to draw Seabirds: A Sense of Humerals
- How to Draw Raptors on Toned Paper
- How to draw a hawk- first lines
- Speed Drawing Birds II
- Fast Sketching with Markers
- Drawing Better Bird Shadows
- Pied-billed Grebe: step-by-step
- What to do when the bird you are drawing moves (video workshop)
- Sketching on toned paper
- Make a Model of a Bird in Flight
- How to draw foreshortened birds
- How to paint a Slate-colored Junco step-by-step
- How to paint a Mountain Bluebird step-by-step
- Creating Illustrations for Field Guides
- How to paint shadows: Bohemian Waxwing
- How To Draw Birds in Flight
- Speed Drawing Birds
- Sketching Bird Songs (video)
How to Draw Mammals
- Background as Context
- Africa Series: Comparative Cats
- Africa Series: Lions!
- Let’s Draw Mice!
- Africa Series: Jackals and Hyena
- Africa Series: Giraffe
- Africa Series: Artiodactyla
- Constructing Mammal Heads
- Africa Series: One Toe or Two?
- Africa Series: Graviportal Posture
- Africa Series: Four on the Floor
- Constructing a Cubist Horse
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
- Drawing Orcas
- American Megafauna 2: Bears, Wolves, and Coyote
- American Megafauna 1: Moose, Elk, Deer, and Bison
- Lemurs: Art and Conservation
- Art and Conservation: Wild Canids Among Us
- Snow Leopards, Art and Conservation
- Highlights, Fox vs Coyote, and Bird Necks
- The Gray Fox: Art and Conservation
- How to draw the Gray Fox
- How to draw Caribou “and” Reindeer
- Tracking for Nature Journalers (video)
- How to Draw Wolves
- How to Draw Bats
- How to Draw Sea Lions, Seals, and Otters oh my! (video)
- Orca! Art and Conservation (video)
- Drawing Mammal Gaits: canter, lope, and gallop (video)
- Drawing Mammal Gaits: Walk and Trot (video)
- How to Draw Foreshortened Horses (video)
- How to Draw Bears (video)
- Horse Anatomy for Artists
- Cheetahs: Conservation and Art
- How to Draw Squirrels (video)
- How to Draw Dogs (video)
- Cat Anatomy for Artists (video)
- Here Kitty Kitty! How to Draw Cats (video)
- How to draw the uglies (video)
- How to draw a Giraffe Head (video)
- Megafauna: How to draw Elephants and Giraffe (video)
- Sketching Skulls & Bones with Mark Simmons (video)
- Thar She Blows! How to Draw Whales in the Wild
- Whale Illustration Basics
- How to Draw Waves and Whales (video workshop)
- How to Draw Mammal Noses
- How to Draw Mammal Ears
- Drawing Mammal Heads: Predator vs. Prey
- Drawing Mammals: 3/4 view, fur texture, and gaits (video workshop)
- Constructing Mammal Heads
- Drawing Mammal Heads and Faces (video workshop)
- Speed Drawing Mammals (video workshop)
- How to Draw Mammals (video workshop)
- How to Draw a Mountain Lion: fur texture.
- How to Draw a Mountain Lion: anatomy
- How to Draw a Deer: fur texture
- How to Draw a Deer: anatomy
- How to Draw a Deer: blocking in the basic shape
- How to Draw a Bear: fur texture
- How to Draw a Bear: anatomy
- How to Draw Mammals: comparative anatomy of the legs
- How to Draw a Bear: Blocking in the basic shape
How to Draw Reptiles and Amphibians
- The Dragons of Land and Sea
- Drawing Amphibians
- Let’s Draw a Salamander!
- How to Draw a Nile Crocodile
- 3D Visualization – drawing snakes and fish (video)
- How to Draw Snakes
- How to draw scales
- Drawing Reptile and Amphibian Eyes
- How to draw reptiles and amphibians (video workshop)
- Studying Salamanders
- How to draw a frog, step-by-step
- How to Draw A Salamander
- How to Draw Frogs and Toads
- The wet look: how to make an object look wet or slimy
How to Draw Fish
- How to Draw Tropical Fish with Colored Pencils
- Thar She Blows! How to Draw Whales in the Wild
- Whale Illustration Basics
- How to Draw Waves and Whales (video workshop)
- Foreshortened Pike- step-by-step
- How to draw a foreshortened fish (sea bass)
- How to Draw Fish part 2 (video workshop)
- How to Draw a Trout: step-by-step
- Black-back Butterfly Fish step-by-step
- Fish Anatomy for Artists
- How to draw fish I (video workshop)
How to Draw Insects
- New Favorite Color: Cobalt Teal Blue
- Stewardship and Bees with Stephey Baker
- How to Draw Butterflies in Dynamic Positions
- Watercolor Hour with Rosalie Haizlett
- Drawing Butterflies and Rare Birds
- How to Draw Bugs
- How to draw Cast Shadows (video)
- How to Draw a Shiny Beetle (video)
- Spider anatomy for artists
- How to draw a dragonfly: Flame Skimmer
- Drawing foreshortened insects: Seven-spotted Ladybug
- How do straight lines curve on a rounded surface?
- How to Draw Insects (video workshop)
- How to Draw Insects: Understanding and Drawing the Legs (part 2)
- How to Draw Insects: Understanding and Drawing the Legs (part 1)
- How to draw insects: shiny vs. dull textures
- How to draw insects: Iridescence
How to Draw Plants and Flowers
- Assembling a Composite with David Lukas
- Drawing Moss and Lichen
- How to Draw Curling Leaves
- Gaining Confidence in Journaling
- Ask Jack: Queen Anne’s Lace
- Rendering Treebark Textures
- How to Draw Mushrooms
- Nature Journaling in the Pantry
- Stems, Leaf Arrangement, and Inflorescence
- NJC, Episode 23: Make your own Nature Collection
- How to draw an Iris
- Drawing Curling Petals and Leaves
- Drawing Cone-shaped Flowers
- Foreshortening Disk-shaped Flowers
- Lily Dissection
- Flower Symmetry and Foreshortening
- Drawing and Painting Water Drops
- How to draw leaves (video)
- Drawing Deciduous Trees (video)
- Drawing Pumpkins
- Out of the Mud- Drawing the Sacred Lotus (video)
- Let’s draw Oak Trees!
- Plant Drawing Tricks (video)
- How to Draw White Things (video)
- How to Draw Compound Leaves (video)
- The Iris Project (video)
- How to draw a Forest (video)
- Watercolor Trees with a Flatbrush (video)
- How to draw leaves and Winter Twigs (video)
- Constructing an Iris, Shapes and Negative Shapes
- Splash and scribble: wet watercolor and aquarelle pencils (video workshop)
- How to Draw Mushrooms (video workshop)
- Drawing Trees on Frosted Mylar
- How to Draw an Oak Leaf on Stipple Paper
- Pen and Ink on Frosted Mylar
- Drawing Trees with Pen and Ink (video workshop)
- How to Paint Raindrops and Dew
- How to Draw Lupine Step-by-Step
- How to draw an Iris: part 2
- How to Draw an Iris: part 1
- Shape vs. Structure
- How to Foreshorten Leaves: Advanced
- How to Foreshorten Leaves: Basics
- How to Draw a Cone-shaped Flower
- How to Foreshorten Flowers: Disk vs. Cone
- How to Foreshorten Flowers: widths, lengths, and angles
- How to Draw Wildflowers I (video workshop)
- Download Leaf and Flower Models
- How to Draw Trees in Winter
- How to Draw Aspen and Steal Inspiration
- Iris in Colored Pencil
- Colored Pencil Technique (video workshop)
- The wet look: how to make an object look wet or slimy
- How to draw trees (video workshop)
- How to Draw Trees: Overlapping Branches
- How to Draw Trees: vertical cracks
- How to draw trees: curving branches
- How to Draw Trees: Oaks
- How to Draw Trees: Conifers
- How to draw mushrooms- the basic lines.
- How to Draw Coniferous Forests
- How To Draw Wildflowers
How to Draw Landscapes
- Summer 2023 Travel Journal Flip
- Background as Context
- The Mountain Stream
- Desert Discoveries with Mesilla Audubon
- Class: Learn to Draw Water with John Muir Laws
- Puddles and Page Layouts
- Drawing Denmark
- Happy Little Trees
- Bare Trees and Waterfalls
- Block Diagrams and Circles
- NJC: Episode 37, Block Diagram
- Coastal Cliffs and Waves
- Water Soluble Pencils
- Ask Jack: How to Draw Rocks!
- Gouache Landscapitos on Toned Paper
- Winter Trees
- Perspectives, Part 2
- Let’s Rock! Drawing Geology
- Let’s Rock! How to Draw Rocks and Stones
- How to Draw Block Diagrams
- NJC, Episode 27: Little Landscapes
- Using the Depth Toolkit
- Drawing in Winter, tales of Ice and Snow
- Drawing Bushes with Pen and Using Toned Paper
- Point Lobos Journal Page
- How to Draw Creeks and Moving Water (video)
- Drawing Deciduous Trees (video)
- Marin County Journaling (video)
- Journaling in the High Sierra (video)
- Journaling Ecosystems (video)
- Let’s draw Oak Trees!
- How to Draw Water with Ballpoint Pen (video)
- How to paint a sunrise landscape with a waterbrush.
- How to paint clouds with a flat waterbrush
- How to draw a Forest (video)
- Sierra Sunset Landscapeito
- Color and Value (video workshop)
- How to Draw Waves and Whales (video workshop)
- 5 Minute Landscape: Water Soluble Pen
- 5 Minute Landscape: Watercolor Pencil
- 5 Minute Landscape: Graphite
- The Five Minute Landscape (video workshop)
- Splash and scribble: wet watercolor and aquarelle pencils (video workshop)
- Perspective for Nature Journaling (video workshop)
- Yosemite Landscapeito: making quick watercolor sketches in the field
- How to Draw Landscapes II (video workshop)
- How to Draw Landscapes I (video workshop)
- How to draw and paint water and sky (video workshop)
- Drawing Trees on Frosted Mylar
- Painting Shadows on Snow with Watercolor
- How to Draw Snow on Trees
- How to Paint a Rainbow in Watercolor
- How to Paint a Rainstorm in Watercolor
- Drawing Rising Mist with Graphite Pencil
- Drawing Fog, Rain, Snow, and Dew (video workshop)
- Painting Fog with Watercolor
- Crosshatching Landscape Step-by-Step- Yosemite Valley
- How to Draw Trees in Winter
- How to Draw Aspen and Steal Inspiration
- How to Draw Sea Foam
- How to Paint a Crashing Wave in Watercolor
- How to Paint Skies with Watercolor II
- How to Paint Skies with Watercolor I
- How to Draw Clouds in Perspective
- How to Draw Cloud Shapes
- How to Draw Water: Open Ocean
- How to draw an Oak Woodland
- How to Draw Coniferous Forests
- How to Draw Rocks
- Landscape With Markers
Watercolor
- Background as Context
- Light and Shadows
- New Favorite Color: Cobalt Teal Blue
- Swan Song
- Desert Discoveries with Mesilla Audubon
- The Color Yellow
- Kenya Journal Flip (2022)
- Value Studies with Watercolor and Tombow
- Watercolor Special Effects
- Drawing Iridescent Birds
- Coastal Cliffs and Waves
- Drawing Amphibians
- Let’s Draw Warblers: Bring Your Warbler to Life
- Drawing Pinyon Jays
- How to Draw Hummingbirds
- Let’s Draw a Salamander!
- Let’s Draw a Stellar’s Jay!
- Watercolor Hour with Rosalie Haizlett
- Oh My Gouache! Part 1
- Watercolor Special Effects
- Black is the new Black
- Out of the Mud- Drawing the Sacred Lotus (video)
- Drawing and Painting A Crow (video)
- How to Paint Birds with Watercolor–part 2 (video)
- Watercolor Backgrounds (video)
- How to Draw a Shiny Beetle (video)
- How to Paint with a Waterbrush (video)
- Paint a Blue Jay step-by-step
- How to paint a sunrise landscape with a waterbrush.
- How to paint clouds with a flat waterbrush
- A Better DIY Altoids palette
- The Watercolorist’s Bag of Tricks (video)
- Sierra Sunset Landscapeito
- Blue Grosbeak & Watercolor Washes
- Color and Value (video workshop)
- The Five Minute Landscape (video workshop)
- How to Draw Sandhill Cranes (video workshop)
- Monochrome Study: Blackburnian Warbler Step-by-Step
- Monochrome Study: White-breasted Nuthatch step-by-step
- How to draw ducks and waterfowl (video workshop)
- How to Draw a Trout: step-by-step
- How to Paint Raindrops and Dew
- Watercolor Sets for Kids
- Painting Shadows on Snow with Watercolor
- How to Paint a Rainstorm in Watercolor
- Drawing Fog, Rain, Snow, and Dew (video workshop)
- Watercolor Color Chart
- How to Draw Lupine Step-by-Step
- How to Draw Aspen and Steal Inspiration
- Using shapes to construct a drawing (how to draw a heron with gouache)
- How to use gouache in your field journal (video workshop)
- Fiscal Shrike: drawing with shapes and gouache
- How to Make Your Own Palette
- How to draw reptiles and amphibians (video workshop)
- How to Draw Ducks: Profile View
- Customizing the Holbein Palette
- How to Draw Sea Foam
- How to Paint a Crashing Wave in Watercolor
- How to Paint Skies with Watercolor II
- How to Paint Skies with Watercolor I
- How to Draw Water: Open Ocean
- Pied-billed Grebe: step-by-step
- How to paint a Slate-colored Junco step-by-step
- How to paint a Mountain Bluebird step-by-step
- How to paint shadows: Bohemian Waxwing
- Reinventing the Wheel: Why Red is not a primary color
- Customizing the Cotman Sketcher’s Pocket Box
- Choosing Watercolors
Nature Journaling
- An introduction to Nature Journaling
- Summer 2023 Travel Journal Flip
- Desert Discoveries with Mesilla Audubon
- Post-Hawk Page Composition
- Puddles and Page Layouts
- Galápagos Journal Flip
- Kenya Journal Flip (2022)
- In discussion; Anna Mason and John Muir Laws
- Drawing Underwater
- NJC, Episode 39: Metadata
- The Cold Canyon Fire Journals
- NJC, Episode 38: Fast Sketching Tips
- Gesture Sketching Birds
- Block Diagrams and Circles
- NJC: Episode 37, Block Diagram
- Sheer Lunacy!
- Gaining Confidence in Journaling
- How to Become a Master of Field Arts
- Nature Journaling, the Art of Seeing
- How to Draw the Moon & International Moon Night
- Nature Journaling in the Pantry
- NJC, Episode 34: Animals on the Move
- NJC, Episode 31: Sense of Place
- Interview on the Night Sky Tourist Podcast
- How to Draw Block Diagrams
- Explore with Master Naturalist David Lukas
- NJC, Episode 29: Plant Timeline
- YouTube channels for Nature Journalers
- INJW Numbers with Jack
- John Muir Laws in discussion with Mike Rhode- Sketchnote Army Podcast
- Drawing the Spruce Grouse
- NJC, Episode 20: Measured Drawings
- Birder’s Field Journal Pro Tips with John Muir Laws and Fiona Gillogly
- Birder’s Field Journal FUNdamentals
- Quantification- Adding Numbers in your Nature Journal
- Snow Leopards, Art and Conservation
- Drawing Ice and Snow on Toned Paper
- NJC, Episode 16: Could it be-Using Inference to Explore Mysteries
- NJC: Episode 15, Estimating Numbers in Nature
- Haiku for Nature Journaling
- Building a bigger, better, bird brain
- NJC: Episode 14, Pace Yourself!
- Refrigerator Safari (video)
- Point Lobos Journal Page
- NJC, Episode 11: Drawing Diagrams
- NJC, Episode 10: Using Words in your Nature Journal
- NJC, Episode 9: Nature Comics
- Winter Solstice After Party (video)
- Tracking for Nature Journalers (video)
- Exploring the Merced NWR with a Journal
- Virtual Winter Nature Journal Ramble (video)
- The process of Science with Inference (video)
- NJC, Episode 7: Cross Section
- How to include numbers in your Nature Journal (video)
- NJC, Episode 6: Making a Map
- NJC, Episode 5: Counting and Measuring
- NJC, Episode 4: Zoom In-Zoom Out
- NJC, Episode 3: My Secret Plant
- John Muir Laws & Fiona Gillogly in Conversation | Heyday Harvest 2020
- Journaling with Nature Podcast Interview
- Wildfire Journaling
- Exploring the solstice and equinox
- Solstice and Equinox Journaling (video)
- Numbers and Quantification in Nature Journals (video)
- Journal page layout and structure (video)
- Equinox Preppers
- Metadata Maps!
- Getting Started with Nature Journaling (video)
- Sharing Journaling with Youngsters (video)
- Nature Journaling at Edgewood Park (video)
- What Comes Naturally: The Science and Soul of Nature Writing (video)
- Drawing Hummingbirds and Conversation with Maria Coryell-Martin (video)
- A Birder’s Brain On Paper by Fiona Gillogly
- Journaling the Solstice (video)
- Journaling Ecosystems (video)
- It Moved! (video)
- Bay Nature’s Local Hero Awards 2020
- Let’s Keep Going
- Be a Nature Journal Ambassador (video)
- Sacrificial Pancakes (video)
- The Iris Project (video)
- Introduction to Nature Journaling (video)
- Words, Pictures, and Numbers (video)
- Doodling Diagrams with Amy Schleser (Video)
- Journal like da Vinci, think like da Vinci
- Abby McBride at the WildWonder Nature Journaling Conference 2019
- Clare Walker Leslie at Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference 2019
- Level up your Nature Journal (video)
- Fiona Gillogly at the Foster Museum (video)
- Creative Lettering for Nature Journaling (video)
- Build a Journaling Community
- Curiosity (video workshop)
- The Enemy of the Good: moving beyond perfectionism
- Introduction to Nature Journaling (video workshop)
- Keep your sketchbook handy (video)
- Introduction to Sketchnoting (video workshop)
- A discussion about Nature Journaling (audio)
- Journal Wrangling (video)
- Pencil Miles
- Post-Hawk Composition
- Journal Page Composition
- How to Draw Wildflowers 2 (video workshop)
- Journal More, Journal Better
- How to get started with Nature Journaling
- Deep Observation and Nature Journaling (video workshop)
- Mapping: block diagrams
- Mapping: top views and cross sections
- Quantity, not Quality
- How to draw mushrooms- the basic lines.
- Your journal is not the place to conserve paper
- How to Draw Clouds in Perspective
- Rock Painting
- This is your brain on nature journals
- Why We Watch Birds
- Sketchbook Reviews (video)
- Sketching on toned paper
- Sketching Bird Songs (video)
Nature Education
- An introduction to Nature Journaling
- Jack and Henry talk about Dyslexia
- NJEF: Inquiry Modeling and Scaffolding
- NJEF: Back to School
- NJEF: Building Online Learning Communities
- NJEF: Botanical Journaling
- NJEF: New Activity, Sorting Cones
- NJEF: Introduction to Visual Thinking Strategies
- NJEF: Approaching the Question of Evidence
- NJEF: Student-Centered Investigations
- NJEF: Leading a Nature Journal Club Outing
- NJEF: Summer Activities and Safety
- NJEF: Spring Activities and Safety
- Join me for 5 days of journaling fun!
- New! Quick Start Guide to Nature Journaling: Free download
- NJEF: Nature Journaling as a Healing Practice
- NJEF: Nature Journaling and Thinking
- NJEF: The Amani Orphanage Experience
- NJEF: Preschoolers and Kindergarteners
- NJEF: Deduction and Language
- NJEF: Thor the Potato
- NJEF: Discussing Diagrams
- NJEF: The Deduction Flowchart
- NJEF: NGSS Overview
- NJEF: Accessibility Part 1
- NJEF: Accessibility 2
- NJEF: “Integrating Nature Journaling as a Classroom Tool”
- NJEF: the Best Introductory Drawing Lessons
- NJEF: The Pretty Picture
- NJEF Labels, Personality Tests, Learning Styles
- NJEF Putting Ourselves in Our Nature Journals
- NJEF: Nature-Averted Kids
- NJEF: Best Practices with Words
- NJEF: Best Practices with Numbers
- NJEF: Self Care
- NJEF: Lesson Ideas & Organizing Club Meetings
- NJC: Episode 37, Block Diagram
- NJEF Tools for Teaching about Climate Change
- NJEF Noticing Nature with Sue Slotterback
- NJEF Stewardship and Service
- NJEF The Power of Story
- NJEF Confirmation Bias
- NJEF: Why Nature Journaling? Part 2
- NJEF How to Give Feedback on Journal Pages
- NJEF From Despair to Empowerment
- NJEF Nature Journaling at Home
- NJEF Cold Weather Journaling
- NJEF Why Should They Care? Part 1
- NJEF Journaling With Your Family
- NJEF Astronomy Journals
- Online Hospitality Study with Catherine Sky
- Thinking Like a Scientist workshop
- NJEF How to Start a Nature Journal Club
- NJEF Scientific Visualization and the Moon
- DIY Nature Journal Bags for Families and Classrooms
- NJEF When We’re Hard on Ourselves as Teachers
- NJEF When Lesson Plans Go Wrong
- NJEF International Baccalaureate Key Concepts
- Thinking Like a Scientist
- NJC, Episode 28: Creative Collaboration
- NJEF Journaling with Elders
- Nature Journaling with High Energy Kids
- NJC, Episode 22: Sitspot: Observing a Special Place Over Time
- NJC, Episode 19: Getting Closer- Using Binoculars
- Quantification- Adding Numbers in your Nature Journal
- Nature Journal Mindset
- Teaching Nature Journaling Online
- Prompts and Heuristics
- NJC, Episode 17: Comparison
- Charlotte Mason and Nature Journaling
- Building a bigger, better, bird brain
- Using Words in your Nature Journal
- Our favorite prompt’s for Nature Journaling
- The process of Science with Inference (video)
- How to include numbers in your Nature Journal (video)
- NJC, Episode 4: Zoom In-Zoom Out
- Peer Mentorship and Discourse
- NJC, Episode 3: My Secret Plant
- Equity and Inclusion in Discussion (2 videos)
- Teaching Nature Journaling in Extreme Weather
- NJC, Episode 2: I notice, I wonder, It reminds me of
- Journaling with Nature Podcast Interview
- Exploring the Equinox in your Journal (video discussion)
- Wildfire Journaling
- Discourse and Student Engagement (educator forum)
- Scientific observation- Junior Land Stewards Virtual Environmental Science Program (video)
- Educator forum integrating visual thinking (video)
- Gratitude, Nature, Depression, Healing, and Growth
- Exploring the solstice and equinox
- Solstice and Equinox Journaling (video)
- Numbers and Quantification in Nature Journals (video)
- Journal page layout and structure (video)
- The Nature of Science (during the CA fires)-video
- Using a Compass Clinometer slope, dip, and angle. (video)
- How to Teach Nature Journaling (3 part video series)
- Journaling with Citizen Science and Numbers (video)
- Teaching Nature Journaling Online (video)
- Giving Feedback in Nature Journals- Educator Forum (video)
- Educator Forum fear of drawing or writing (video)
- Teaching with Phenomena (video)
- Starting Journaling With Youngsters (video)
- Dancing with Dyslexia (video)
- Journaling the Solstice II (video)
- Discussion with Teachers in Training (video)
- Bay Nature’s Local Hero Awards 2020
- Attention and Curiosity with John Muir Laws and Fiona Gillogly (video)
- Earth News Journal Interview with Jerry Kay (audio)
- John Muir Laws at the 2019 Wild Wonder Conference
- Fiona Gillogly at the 2019 Wild Wonder Conference (video)
- Journal like da Vinci, think like da Vinci
- Abby McBride at the WildWonder Nature Journaling Conference 2019
- Clare Walker Leslie at Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference 2019
- Amy Tan at Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference 2019
- Level up your Nature Journal (video)
- The Nature Journal Challenge
- My drawing process and practice (video lecture)
- Interview on BeProvided Conservation Radio (audio)
- Build a Journaling Community
- Curiosity (video workshop)
- How to Teach Nature Journaling (Video Workshop)
- Nature Connection through Deliberate Attention and Curiosity- (Tedx video)
- The Enemy of the Good: moving beyond perfectionism
- Introduction to Sketchnoting (video workshop)
- A discussion about Nature Journaling (audio)
- Kung Fu Naturalist
- A Game Changer in Science and Environmental Education
- A Curiosity Framework
- Theaomai
- Low-cost Nature Journaling Supplies for Teachers
- Download Leaf and Flower Models
- Nature Journaling with your Family
- Why keep a nature journal (video workshop)
- Deep Observation and Nature Journaling (video workshop)
- Mapping: top views and cross sections
- Paying Attention
- Falling in love with Nature
- Rock Painting
- This is your brain on nature journals
- Why We Watch Birds
- Three prompts for deeper nature observation
- Second Edition of the Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada
- Nature Journal Quotes
- The making of a Naturalist’s Notebook page
Natural History
- Astronomy Nature Journaling
- Desert Discoveries with Mesilla Audubon
- All Abuzz! Bees with Nina Sokolov
- Stewardship and Bees with Stephey Baker
- Assembling a Composite with David Lukas
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
- The Cold Canyon Fire Journals
- Drawing Bird Postures, Proportions, and Angles
- How to Draw Seabirds on Land
- Sheer Lunacy!
- Point Blue: Migratory Shorebird Project
- The Beak of the Finch
- Lemurs: Art and Conservation
- Moon Party March 2022
- How to Become a Master of Field Arts
- How to Think Like an Ecologist
- Exploring the Arctic and How to Draw Snowy Owls
- Let’s Rock! Drawing Geology
- Let’s Rock! How to Draw Rocks and Stones
- International Moon Party
- How to Draw the Moon & International Moon Night
- How to Draw Block Diagrams
- Explore with Master Naturalist David Lukas
- Mountain Meadows and Creating Infographics
- Thinking Like a Scientist
- INJW Numbers with Jack
- NJC, Episode 21, Birdsong in your Nature Journal
- Using a Compass Clinometer slope, dip, and angle. (video)
- The Iris Project (video)
- Abby McBride at the WildWonder Nature Journaling Conference 2019
- Gull Identification Guide (free download)
- Theaomai
- Deep Observation and Nature Journaling (video workshop)
- Mapping: block diagrams
- Mapping: top views and cross sections
- Book Review: Looking at Birds
- Paying Attention
- Why We Watch Birds
- Three prompts for deeper nature observation
- Second Edition of the Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada
- Nature Journal Quotes
- The making of a Naturalist’s Notebook page
- Sketching Bird Songs (video)
- Lizards, Ticks, and Lyme oh my!
Stewardship
- All Abuzz! Bees with Nina Sokolov
- Stewardship and Bees with Stephey Baker
- Find Your Inner Birdcasso!
- NJEF: The Amani Orphanage Experience
- How to draw the Great Blue Heron
- Happy Little Trees
- NJC, Episode 40: Stewardship
- Mountain Meadows and Nightingales
- The Cold Canyon Fire Journals
- Drawing Bird Postures, Proportions, and Angles
- Point Blue: Migratory Shorebird Project
- Drawing Birds on Toned Paper
- Drawing Shorebirds and Waterbirds
- NJEF Stewardship and Service
- Lemurs: Art and Conservation
- Exploring the Arctic and How to Draw Snowy Owls
- Mountain Meadows and Creating Infographics
- Art and Conservation: Wild Canids Among Us
- Bird in the Hand: Virtual Nature Journaling with Point Blue
- Snow Leopards, Art and Conservation
- The Gray Fox: Art and Conservation
- Mountain Lion Crossing! Art and Conservation
- Penguins and Conservation, part 2 (video)
- Cheetahs: Conservation and Art
- Abby McBride at the WildWonder Nature Journaling Conference 2019
- Megafauna: How to draw Elephants and Giraffe (video)
- My drawing process and practice (video lecture)
- Interview on BeProvided Conservation Radio (audio)
- Nature Connection through Deliberate Attention and Curiosity- (Tedx video)
- A Curiosity Framework
- Your journal is not the place to conserve paper
- Falling in love with Nature
- Remembering Rich Stallcup
Book and Equipment Reviews
- DIY Nature Journal Bags for Families and Classrooms
- Book Review: “Nature Drawing a Tool for Learning” and “Keeping a Nature Journal”
- Using a Compass Clinometer slope, dip, and angle. (video)
- Book Review: A Year in Nature
- Journal like da Vinci, think like da Vinci
- Building words
- Customizing the Holbein Palette
- Book Review: Looking at Birds
- Book Review: Bay Area Birds
- Sketchbook Reviews (video)
Art Technique
- An introduction to Nature Journaling
- Summer 2023 Travel Journal Flip
- Background as Context
- Rendering Different Textures
- Light and Shadows
- Birds in Flight with Peter Cavanagh
- New Favorite Color: Cobalt Teal Blue
- The Mountain Stream
- Swan Song
- Desert Discoveries with Mesilla Audubon
- Join me for 5 days of journaling fun!
- Stewardship and Bees with Stephey Baker
- Find Your Inner Birdcasso!
- Drawing Birds with Debby Kaspari
- New! Quick Start Guide to Nature Journaling: Free download
- Birds in Colored Pencil with Jordan Silvia
- Post-Hawk Page Composition
- The Backyard Hawk
- Assembling a Composite with David Lukas
- How to Draw Butterflies in Dynamic Positions
- Class: Learn to Draw Water with John Muir Laws
- How to draw the Great Blue Heron
- Learn to Draw Plants with John Muir Laws
- The Color Yellow
- Puddles and Page Layouts
- Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds
- Galápagos Journal Flip
- Drawing the Birds of Argentina
- Kenya Journal Flip (2022)
- Africa Series: Comparative Cats
- Africa Series: Lions!
- Drawing Moss and Lichen
- Drawing Denmark
- Puffins and Page Layouts
- Let’s Draw Mice!
- Drawing the Macaw’s Head and Face
- Africa Series: Jackals and Hyena
- Africa Series: Giraffe
- Africa Series: Artiodactyla
- Constructing Mammal Heads
- Happy Little Trees
- Africa Series: One Toe or Two?
- Africa Series: Graviportal Posture
- Drawing Great Blue Herons
- Africa Series: Four on the Floor
- Constructing a Cubist Horse
- Drawing Owls
- Camouflage in Birds
- In discussion; Anna Mason and John Muir Laws
- Value Studies with Watercolor and Tombow
- Drawing Underwater
- NJC, Episode 39: Metadata
- Watercolor Special Effects
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
- Bare Trees and Waterfalls
- Mountain Meadows and Nightingales
- The Cold Canyon Fire Journals
- NJC, Episode 38: Fast Sketching Tips
- Drawing Bird Postures, Proportions, and Angles
- Gesture Sketching Birds
- Drawing Iridescent Birds
- Sketching Raptors on Toned Paper
- Wrapping the Pattern Around the Shape
- How to Draw Ducks
- How to Draw Warblers
- Sketching for Birders with Mesilla Audubon
- John Busby: nature journaling inspiration
- Block Diagrams and Circles
- How to Draw Curling Leaves
- Stipple 101
- Toucan Draw It!
- NJC: Episode 37, Block Diagram
- How to Draw Seabirds on Land
- The Dragons of Land and Sea
- Sheer Lunacy!
- Drawing Orcas
- Coastal Cliffs and Waves
- Point Blue: Migratory Shorebird Project
- Drawing Amphibians
- The Beak of the Finch
- Gaining Confidence in Journaling
- Water Soluble Pencils
- Drawing Birds on Toned Paper
- Drawing Shorebirds and Waterbirds
- Let’s Draw Warblers: Bring Your Warbler to Life
- Let’s Draw Warblers: Anatomy and Angles
- Drawing Pinyon Jays
- How to Draw Bird Tails
- Ask Jack: Bird Nests
- American Megafauna 2: Bears, Wolves, and Coyote
- American Megafauna 1: Moose, Elk, Deer, and Bison
- How to Draw Hummingbirds
- Let’s Draw a Salamander!
- Lines and Containers with Ashton Rodenhiser
- Ask Jack: Queen Anne’s Lace
- Lemurs: Art and Conservation
- Ask Jack: How to Draw Rocks!
- Gouache Landscapitos on Toned Paper
- Seabirds in Flight
- How to Become a Master of Field Arts
- Rendering Treebark Textures
- Hatching and Crosshatching
- Winter Trees
- Let’s Draw a Stellar’s Jay!
- How to Draw Mushrooms
- Lessons Learned in the Ecuadorian Cloud Forest
- Perspectives, Part 2
- Oh My Gouache! Part 2
- Exploring the Arctic and How to Draw Snowy Owls
- Let’s Rock! Drawing Geology
- Nature Journaling, the Art of Seeing
- Let’s Rock! How to Draw Rocks and Stones
- International Moon Party
- How to Draw the Moon & International Moon Night
- Nature Journaling in the Pantry
- NJC, Episode 34: Animals on the Move
- How to Draw Owls II
- How to Draw Owls I
- Watercolor Hour with Rosalie Haizlett
- Drawing the Bittern
- NJC, Episode 31: Sense of Place
- Linear Perspective
- Oh My Gouache! Part 1
- Interview on the Night Sky Tourist Podcast
- How to Draw Block Diagrams
- Stems, Leaf Arrangement, and Inflorescence
- Explore with Master Naturalist David Lukas
- NJC, Episode 29: Plant Timeline
- Drawing Butterflies and Rare Birds
- YouTube channels for Nature Journalers
- INJW Numbers with Jack
- Tombow Demonstration
- NJC, Episode 27: Little Landscapes
- How to Draw a Nile Crocodile
- How to Draw Tropical Fish with Colored Pencils
- Art and Conservation: Wild Canids Among Us
- How to Draw a Woodcock
- Raptors in Flight II
- Raptors in Flight I
- How to Draw Bugs
- How to Draw Bird Legs and Feet
- NJC, Episode 24: Four Drawing Tricks
- John Muir Laws in discussion with Mike Rhode- Sketchnote Army Podcast
- Using the Depth Toolkit
- NJC, Episode 23: Make your own Nature Collection
- Bird in the Hand: Virtual Nature Journaling with Point Blue
- NJC, Episode 21, Birdsong in your Nature Journal
- How to draw an Iris
- Drawing Curling Petals and Leaves
- Drawing Cone-shaped Flowers
- Foreshortening Disk-shaped Flowers
- Drawing in Winter, tales of Ice and Snow
- How to draw birds with open beaks, flying birds, and mixing dull or vibrant colors
- Drawing the Spruce Grouse
- NJC, Episode 20: Measured Drawings
- Birder’s Field Journal Pro Tips with John Muir Laws and Fiona Gillogly
- Birder’s Field Journal FUNdamentals
- Quantification- Adding Numbers in your Nature Journal
- Drawing Bushes with Pen and Using Toned Paper
- Snow Leopards, Art and Conservation
- Lily Dissection
- Flower Symmetry and Foreshortening
- Drawing Ice and Snow on Toned Paper
- NJC, Episode 16: Could it be-Using Inference to Explore Mysteries
- Live sketching with a Great Horned Owl
- How to Draw a Bird, 3/4 view
- NJC: Episode 15, Estimating Numbers in Nature
- Haiku for Nature Journaling
- Tally marks, Colored Pencil Wren, and Gull on Toned Paper
- Building a bigger, better, bird brain
- NJC: Episode 14, Pace Yourself!
- How to start a bird sketch
- NJC, Episode 13: Colored Pencils in Your Journal
- How to Draw and Paint Bird Nests
- How to Draw Duck Wings
- Highlights, Fox vs Coyote, and Bird Necks
- Refrigerator Safari (video)
- Point Lobos Journal Page
- The Gray Fox: Art and Conservation
- NJC, Episode 11: Drawing Diagrams
- How to draw the Gray Fox
- NJC, Episode 10: Using Words in your Nature Journal
- Make a Step by step and Drawing Spirals (video)
- NJC, Episode 9: Nature Comics
- How to draw Caribou “and” Reindeer
- Winter Solstice After Party (video)
- Mountain Lion Crossing! Art and Conservation
- Drawing and Painting Water Drops
- Tracking for Nature Journalers (video)
- Exploring the Merced NWR with a Journal
- Virtual Winter Nature Journal Ramble (video)
- The process of Science with Inference (video)
- NJC, Episode 7: Cross Section
- How to include numbers in your Nature Journal (video)
- NJC, Episode 6: Making a Map
- How to draw leaves (video)
- NJC, Episode 5: Counting and Measuring
- Watercolor Special Effects
- How to Draw A Turkey
- NJC, Episode 4: Zoom In-Zoom Out
- How to Draw Creeks and Moving Water (video)
- How to Draw Wolves
- Drawing Deciduous Trees (video)
- NJC, Episode 3: My Secret Plant
- Drawing the Capercaillie, 3/4 view (video)
- John Muir Laws & Fiona Gillogly in Conversation | Heyday Harvest 2020
- Black is the new Black
- How to Draw Bats
- Drawing Pumpkins
- Journaling with Nature Podcast Interview
- Nature Journaling for Birders
- Out of the Mud- Drawing the Sacred Lotus (video)
- Wildfire Journaling
- Make your own Value Finder
- Drawing and Painting A Crow (video)
- Drawing Owls and mixing colors
- 40 Years Painting Wilderness: Artist-Explorer Tony Foster in Conversation with John Muir Laws
- Coping with COVID-19 Through Art and Nature: From Cornwall to California
- 3D Visualization – drawing snakes and fish (video)
- Marin County Journaling (video)
- Journaling in the High Sierra (video)
- Nature Journaling for Birders (video)
- Drawing Raptors and other Large Birds in Flight
- How to Draw Birds at All Angles
- Exploring the solstice and equinox
- Solstice and Equinox Journaling (video)
- Numbers and Quantification in Nature Journals (video)
- How to Draw Sea Lions, Seals, and Otters oh my! (video)
- Bird Masterclass part 1: How to Make Bird Drawings Come Alive (Video)
- Journal page layout and structure (video)
- How to Draw Herons and Egrets (video)
- Equinox Preppers
- Penguins and Conservation, part 2 (video)
- Orca! Art and Conservation (video)
- How to Paint Birds with Watercolor–part 2 (video)
- Metadata Maps!
- How to Paint Birds with Watercolor (video)
- Drawing Mammal Gaits: canter, lope, and gallop (video)
- Getting Started with Nature Journaling (video)
- Drawing Nests and Complex Overlapping Texture (video)
- Drawing Mammal Gaits: Walk and Trot (video)
- How to Draw Foreshortened Horses (video)
- Sharing Journaling with Youngsters (video)
- How to Draw Bears (video)
- Nature Journaling at Edgewood Park (video)
- How to Draw a California Condor in Flight (video)
- Drawing Penguins (video)
- What Comes Naturally: The Science and Soul of Nature Writing (video)
- Drawing Hummingbirds and Conversation with Maria Coryell-Martin (video)
- Watercolor Backgrounds (video)
- Horse Anatomy for Artists
- A Birder’s Brain On Paper by Fiona Gillogly
- Cheetahs: Conservation and Art
- How to Draw Bird Beaks (video)
- How to draw Cast Shadows (video)
- Journaling the Solstice (video)
- Journaling Ecosystems (video)
- Drawing Object Shadows (video)
- It Moved! (video)
- Bay Nature’s Local Hero Awards 2020
- Let’s Keep Going
- Let’s draw Oak Trees!
- Plant Drawing Tricks (video)
- How to Draw White Things (video)
- How to Draw Squirrels (video)
- How to draw Raptors, Hawks, Eagles, and Owls (video)
- Be a Nature Journal Ambassador (video)
- Sacrificial Pancakes (video)
- How to draw Shorebirds and Waterfowl (video)
- How to Draw Compound Leaves (video)
- How to Draw a Shiny Beetle (video)
- How to Draw Garden Birds (video)
- How to Draw Dogs (video)
- Cat Anatomy for Artists (video)
- Here Kitty Kitty! How to Draw Cats (video)
- The Iris Project (video)
- Iridescence- How to draw the Wood Duck’s Head (video)
- Introduction to Nature Journaling (video)
- How to Draw Hawk and Duck heads (video)
- How to Draw Water with Ballpoint Pen (video)
- How to Draw Bird Feet (video)
- Understanding Cross-contour Lines (video)
- Words, Pictures, and Numbers (video)
- How to use Watercolor Pencils with a Waterbrush (video)
- Douglass Iris with Watercolor Pencil Step-by-Step
- Northern Parula with Watercolor Pencils Step-by-Step
- How to build a journal page (video)
- How to Paint with a Waterbrush (video)
- Paint a Blue Jay step-by-step
- How to paint a sunrise landscape with a waterbrush.
- How to paint clouds with a flat waterbrush
- Doodling Diagrams with Amy Schleser (Video)
- Journal like da Vinci, think like da Vinci
- Abby McBride at the WildWonder Nature Journaling Conference 2019
- Clare Walker Leslie at Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference 2019
- Level up your Nature Journal (video)
- How to draw the uglies (video)
- How to draw a Forest (video)
- How to draw a Giraffe Head (video)
- Megafauna: How to draw Elephants and Giraffe (video)
Thank you for sharing knowledge on such extensive topics in an orderly manner. It is really generous of you.
Jack – Just wanna say THANK YOU with every breath and every cell of my mind and heart for your most generous, loving, helpful web site with all of these recordings and so much more. May you be forever supported in every way to continue this passion and gift to all of us.
I took your owl drawing classes through the Audubon society. I would like to know more about your books. Where can I find that information?
They are described in my store.
I just started Nature Journaling and your name came up on Bethan Burton’s podcast and I’ve been watching your videos. Your teaching is so refreshing and inspiring. And top quality.
I’m 67 and have just started on my drawing and sketching journey and I thank you for your generosity with sharing such an abundance of knowledge and free resources. It inspires confidence.
Thanks John.
Roy,
Perth
Western Australia
I agree Roy, I recently stumbled onto John’s book of Nature Drawing and Journalling in the library, and thought I had found a slice of heaven in those pages – it’s fantastic. Then I googled John’s other books and found this website and could not believe his generosity providing all these resources. I have struggled for years to find a niche for my drawing and now I feel like my world just opened up ! Yesterday I spent 4 hours just observing and recording a strawberry plant in my garden ! Incredible!
Wonderful! Thank you Jo. I am delighted these resources are so helpful.
Hi there, I have just found your blog and love your tutorials!! I am going to share them with my daughters, but both they and I are real beginners at nature drawing. Could you recommend a good place to start? Perhaps some easier techniques or drawings that could begin building their confidence?
Many thanks, and well done on producing awesome art tutorials!
Let me know the ages of your daughters. Perhaps I could design a class specifically for their age and experience level. Could they join us for a Tuesday or a Thursday session?
Hi. The Nature Journal Bags link is broken.
which link? Thank you for helping me spot broken links on my site.
I am just getting started and am excited. You are a wonderful teacher. So generous!!! Thank you!
What kind of sketchbook are you using with the gray paper?
It is a strathmore toned paper hard bound book. I love em. They come in brown too.
Thank you for teaching – you are great. How do you keep journal book art from smudging over time?
Great question. Apply spray fixative over pencil drawings. I have now switched from pencil to ballpoint pen for this reason.
I purchased your book, Jack, on drawing birds.. It was wonderful! I am a birder, though mostly I capture images of birds on my Canon. I am a Photo major in College.. I just purchased your book on Nature Journaling and am enjoying some of your courses in your blog archive. Thank you for helping me to draw birds and paint birds easier than I had before. I as well love the mammal drawing courses. I draw and paint all wild animals! I haven’t attempted drawing in the Wilderness yet. So far, I’ve drawn and painted from the images I’ve captured at the beach and in the mountains.
Just thank you for all the free art lessons it’s helped me with my art skills so much
Hi Jack,
In one of your recent Tue or Thurs nature journaling Zoom sessions, you mentioned a favorite electric pencil sharpener you use in your office. I didn’t write down the name of it at the time. Can you refresh my memory, regarding the brand and name?
Thanks much! Be well,
don’t have a favorite one, I just got a large one for classrooms at Office Depot.
I wish to subscribe to your blog. I found a signup for the Newsletter. Is that referring to the blog?
I want to subscribe to your blog.
Thanks.
just added this feature to my site, thank you for the idea
I just ordered your Guide to Drawing Birds. Thank you for providing this technical bird drawing book that has been sorely needed for a long time! I have already had previous courses involving work with wildlife, but this is a good start at re-learning those skills. I would like to add nature illustration to my professional skill set and have it as an additional vocation later on in my career.
Is there a way these blog entries can be downloaded as full PDFs?
Thank you again!
I should look into that- it would be a useful function on the site.
hi there Jack…i learned about you a couple of years ago from my watercolour teacher here in North Vancouver, B.C. have just been homebound with a nasty cold for 3 weeks & now figure i have logged my “10,000 hours” of watching your demo videos ( hahahahah) taking great notes/following your demos! so much great info & tips…cant wait to get out there & practice my new skills…you are a teacher/naturalist extraordinaire & i’m so glad to know you…now regularly follow your blog!! thankyou for all your awesome blogs/videos!
I so appreciate your support! Keep sketching.
I attended the 2/25 lecture you gave at Arastradero re journaling (part of the curriculum for the Grassroots Ecology Cal Naturalist training).
You spoke about a “zyrgenic effect” – I’m not spelling it right because I can’t find any references to the concept. It had to do with profiling or heuristics, the tendency of the brain to take shortcuts or make generalizations in the absence of focused attention.
Could you provide the proper terminology or a reference?
Thanks much – the lecture gave me a lot to think about.
Mary
Here is a reference to get you started.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeigarnik_effect
Hi john I was looking at your book on drawing birds. I am new to drawing and never had a formal class. I am wondering if this book is good for newbies. For me to spend this much money is difficult. I am disabled and on a fixed income. Just want to be sure it is a good buy at my level. Thank you for your input.
Hi there Nancy. I think you would enjoy the book. There is a mix of basic and advanced techniques in the book. My favorite book for a beginning drawer is Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.
I just ordered your book :Laws guide to drawing birds. I came across some of your videos on you tube and am now interested in learning more about drawing from nature. We’ve recently moved to the Low Country of SC (Daniel Island) and everyday is a wonderland here…
I’m a new artist, but like you said…practice makes anyone good…THANK YOU!!
Hope you enjoy them!
Can you please add a search bar to this website because it is kind of hard to find the thing I’m looking for
done! Great idea.