John Muir Laws demonstrates how to paint clouds using gouache, watercolor, and toned paper. (Class session from 20 April 2023) How to make your own gouache palette: https://youtu.be/Y6xWMHpTRoE?si=VPiX55tB8dOuFrVF Read More
Category: Drawing Landscapes
Tips, tricks, and techniques to help you draw landscapes.
Ask Jack: Grab Bag of Tricks! (May 18, 2021)
In this “Ask Jack” session, John Muir Laws goes over various tips and tricks, including how to sight with binoculars, creating a foggy landscape, using a smudging tool, and iridescence. (Class from 18 May 2021) Read More
Summer 2023 Travel Journal Flip
John Muir Laws shares his journal from his summer travels, including adventures in Montana, Greece, Croatia, England, and more to come! (July 2023) Read More
Background as Context
Learn fast and fun ways to incorporate habitat elements into an animal sketch. How can you combine several sketches to explore the context of an observation and show relationships between individuals? Let’s move from a drawing of a deer floating in the white void to a rich story. (Nov 2022) Read More
The Mountain Stream
How can you draw lively, babbling brooks and cascades? Let’s sit beside the stream and draw. Rocks and waterfalls time! John Muir Laws has us look at techniques to help us draw the riffles and pools of a mountain stream. We explore techniques with pen, pencil, and watercolor (perhaps gouache too if we have time Read More
Desert Discoveries with Mesilla Audubon
Nature journaling is a wonderful way to get even more richness from our birding experiences. Please join naturalist John Muir Laws and the Mesilla Valley Audubon Society as we imagine a trip to into the desert, record our discoveries, and probe mysteries in our notebooks. John will demonstrate habits of mind, drawing techniques, and journaling Read More
Class: Learn to Draw Water with John Muir Laws
MAY 20, 2023, 10am-12pm Pacific Time. ONLINE Join award-winning artist, author, educator, and scientist John Muir Laws, aka Jack, for this fun, engaging, and empowering class on capturing water in your nature journal—from mountain streams to still lakes to wild waterfalls. In this 2-hour live online class, you will learn how to draw landscapes with Read More
Puddles and Page Layouts
In this “Ask Jack” session, John Muir Laws demonstrates how to draw shallow water, as well as ideas on how you can weave your pages together “post-hawk”. (May 2021) Read More
Drawing Denmark
In this “Ask Jack” session, we draw a landscapito of a field in Denmark, courtesy of participant Valters. John Muir Laws demonstrates how to render grass textures using some neat tricks, as well as how to create depth in your landscapito. Read More
Happy Little Trees
In honor of Bob Ross’s birthday, John Muir Laws led an enchanting workshop on October 29th, 2021, dressed as the man himself! In this workshop, he teaches how to draw happy little trees, as well as celebrate the spirit of kindness in community. Please join in! Read More