Join John Muir Laws as he demonstrates four techniques that will help you draw faster and more easily. These tricks are a great addition to your nature journaling toolkit. Read More
Category: Art and Drawing
Tricks, tips, techniques and inspiration for artists.
John Muir Laws in discussion with Mike Rhode- Sketchnote Army Podcast
Join Mike Rohde and me as we discuss how I entered into nature journaling, the importance of parents encouraging kids to explore their interests, ways sketchnoters and visual thinking can enter into nature journaling, and more. Listen to the Podcast Read More
Using the Depth Toolkit
Join John Muir Laws as he demonstrates how to show depth in landscape sketches using the suite of depth techniques from The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling. Read More
NJC, Episode 23: Make your own Nature Collection
Have you ever made a collection of natural objects? Why not put one in your journal? Making a collection of similar found objects is a great way to focus your observations and to prime your brain for new discoveries! Read More
Bird in the Hand: Virtual Nature Journaling with Point Blue
Join Naturalist Artist Educator John Muir Laws on a virtual visit to the Palomarin Field Station in Point Reyes, California, where Point Blue scientists have been banding birds and advancing conservation for more than 55 years. Explore drawing techniques, from fast sketching to vivid detail, to observe and appreciate the natural world around us. Get Read More
NJC, Episode 21, Birdsong in your Nature Journal
Listen to the birds. The forest’s secrets are yours, if you can listen! (Birdsong Hiku). In this video, we explore how to listen to birdsong and transcribe it into your journal. This is the best way to learn the language of birds. You can use these same techniques to describe all the sounds you hear. Read More
How to draw an Iris
Learn how to construct a drawing of an iris, observing structure, negative shapes, and curling petals. The Nature Journal Workshop with John Muir Laws. Read More
Drawing Curling Petals and Leaves
John Muir Laws describes how to see and draw the structure and geometry of curling leaves and petals. Read More
Drawing Cone-shaped Flowers
Learn the geometry of cone-shaped flowers to help you understand and draw their structure. In this workshop, we look at foreshortening cone-shaped flowers to draw them from any angle! Read More
Foreshortening Disk-shaped Flowers
Learn how the shapes and negative shapes between petals change as flowers are rotated and foreshortened. These are fundamental ideas concepts to help you draw botanical illustrations. Read More