Our nature journals are an important tool to help us understand the wildfires growing ever larger and more intense across the world these past few years. Learn how to develop a deeper understanding of fire’s place in the natural world in this discussion with Nature Journaler and fire ecologist Robin Carlson and John Muir Laws. Read More
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Make your own Value Finder
Learn how to make your own value finder with green (not red) film to help you see the dark and light areas in both your subject and your artwork. Read More
Drawing and Painting A Crow (video)
Learn how to capture the subtle iridescence of crow feathers with watercolor. In this video, John Muir Laws demonstrates how to draw and paint a crow in profile. Read More
Discourse and Student Engagement (educator forum)
Join John Muir Laws and the nature journal educators forum for a discussion about discourse, learning, and student engagement as it applies to teaching about nature journaling. Read More
Drawing Owls and mixing colors
Follow John Muir Laws through a demonstration of drawing a Great Horned Owl perched in a deep forest. Also, a color mixing demonstration using watercolor. Read More
40 Years Painting Wilderness: Artist-Explorer Tony Foster in Conversation with John Muir Laws
John Muir Laws and Artist-Explorer Tony Foster share insights about their passions for art and nature in a live, online format. This conversation offered an opportunity for these two artists to reflect on the similarities and differences in their philosophies, approaches to painting, and perspectives on environmental threats in the world. The session begins with Read More
Coping with COVID-19 Through Art and Nature: From Cornwall to California
John Muir Laws and Artist-Explorer Tony Foster discuss Foster’s ‘Lockdown Diary’, an artwork Journey created during COVID-19 lockdowns this Spring. Confined to home except for one walk each day, Tony constructed this daily diary of painted and written observations using the notes and drawings made during his regular outings. The resulting artwork beautifully illustrates Tony Read More
3D Visualization – drawing snakes and fish (video)
Learn to understand the volume of a sinuous form as we examine and deconstruct a playdough snake. There are surprising angles and edges in this seemingly simple form. Once you know what to look for you will be able to draw curving and twisted trout, snakes, sharks, and more! Read More
Scientific observation- Junior Land Stewards Virtual Environmental Science Program (video)
Join John Muir Laws and the Coastside Land Trust for the first in a series of videos to help connect kids with the land. How we can think like an environmental scientist and use scientific thinking in our backyards or nearby natural spaces? See more videos from the Coastside Land Trust here. Read More
Educator forum integrating visual thinking (video)
Join a discussion with the Nature Journal Educator’s Forum about visual thinking and sketchnoteing. Read More