Journaling With Nature is a podcast for those who want to turn curiosity into wonder…a pencil sketch into a rabbit hole of discovery…a moment of stillness into a life full of joy! Join Bethan Burton each week, Sunday 4PM Pacific time, when a new episode is published. The podcast includes in-depth interviews with nature journalers Read More
This is a meetup (not a workshop, much more informal sharing!) of the Skyscapito Appreciation Society! This is our third meeting and second session on making your own Cyanometer, hosted by Bethan Burton and Kirsten Carlson, who is in Germany. TIME: 12 noon CEST (Germany) / 8 pm Australia In 1789 Swiss physicist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure created Read More
Do you have questions about drawing, journaling, naturalist skills, or journaling teaching techniques? Join John Muir Laws and the Nature Journal Club every week for a one-hour open forum discussion where we explore (and hopefully answer) your questions live. Stick around at the end of the meeting for a lively group journal share and conversation. Read More
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are K–12 science content standards. They are a little hard to wrap your head around initially but I think they are brilliant and really useful. Even if you are a homeschool educator or are teaching in a non NGSS state or country, it is worth your while to take a Read More
“Stories are everywhere, if we know how to look.” -How to Teach Nature Journaling Join the Workshop In nature journaling, we use a mixture of words, pictures, and numbers. Join us for this new weekly workshop where we focus on WORDS. We’ll explore writing for different purposes: writing to observe, to think, to imagine, and Read More
Every week The Nature Journal Show provides you with tips, tricks, and techniques to help you get more out of your nature journaling! In addition to exciting nature journal adventures, and practical how-to episodes, there are also inspiring conversations with other nature journalers, nature artists, and nature researchers! Join the premieres every Wednesday at 6pm Read More
Super low-key, supportive drawing and chatting online hang-out: if there are pages in your journal you've been wanting to finish, or homework you're wanting to catch up on, or just plain want to draw in good company, please join us! * Together, we create a supportive space. If a person feels like sharing their work, Read More
Learn a practical and portable system for using gouache in your nature journal. Gouache, an opaque watercolor, has wonderful practical uses but also its own challenges. In this workshop, we will learn Jack's gouache system and learn how to set up our own gouache palette. What paints should I use? How can I avoid the Read More
Super low-key, supportive drawing and chatting online hang-out: if there are pages in your journal you've been wanting to finish, or homework you're wanting to catch up on, or just plain want to draw in good company, please join us! * Together, we create a supportive space. If a person feels like sharing their work, Read More
Journaling With Nature is a podcast for those who want to turn curiosity into wonder…a pencil sketch into a rabbit hole of discovery…a moment of stillness into a life full of joy! Join Bethan Burton each week, Sunday 4PM Pacific time, when a new episode is published. The podcast includes in-depth interviews with nature journalers Read More
Do you have questions about drawing, journaling, naturalist skills, or journaling teaching techniques? Join John Muir Laws and the Nature Journal Club every week for a one-hour open forum discussion where we explore (and hopefully answer) your questions live. Stick around at the end of the meeting for a lively group journal share and conversation. Read More
Learn how to teach Nature Journaling! Join our weekly discussion and idea-sharing for teachers, home school parents, and other educators interested in teaching nature journaling skills. Each meeting will have a theme. Most of the conversation that day will revolve around this core idea but expect interesting side routes and trails. Click Here to Join Read More
“Stories are everywhere, if we know how to look.” -How to Teach Nature Journaling Join the Workshop In nature journaling, we use a mixture of words, pictures, and numbers. Join us for this new weekly workshop where we focus on WORDS. We’ll explore writing for different purposes: writing to observe, to think, to imagine, and Read More
Every week The Nature Journal Show provides you with tips, tricks, and techniques to help you get more out of your nature journaling! In addition to exciting nature journal adventures, and practical how-to episodes, there are also inspiring conversations with other nature journalers, nature artists, and nature researchers! Join the premieres every Wednesday at 6pm Read More
Super low-key, supportive drawing and chatting online hang-out: if there are pages in your journal you've been wanting to finish, or homework you're wanting to catch up on, or just plain want to draw in good company, please join us! * Together, we create a supportive space. If a person feels like sharing their work, Read More
Learn a practical and portable system for using gouache in your nature journal. Gouache, an opaque watercolor, has wonderful practical uses but also its own challenges. In this workshop, we will review Jack's gouache system and learn how to use our new gouache palettes with watercolor on toned paper. Bring: your gouache palette (made after Read More
An introductory course. Live and interactive. Gain the tools and skills to be comfortable creating a nature journal page using various techniques. Develop your superpowers of observation and curiosity and begin to uncover what was unseen in nature. Six sessions, September 9, 2021 Thursday 4pm- 5:15pm Pacific For more details, dates and how to Read More
Super low-key, supportive drawing and chatting online hang-out: if there are pages in your journal you've been wanting to finish, or homework you're wanting to catch up on, or just plain want to draw in good company, please join us! * Together, we create a supportive space. If a person feels like sharing their work, Read More
Monterey Bay Nature Journal Club Special Guest Jan Ruby-Crystal will be teaching us techniques to get your started with using colored pencil in your nature journal. Jan is a member of the MBNJC online community and a retired art teacher, and amazingly skilled artist. We will learn seven techniques for using colored pencils and watercolor Read More
Journaling With Nature is a podcast for those who want to turn curiosity into wonder…a pencil sketch into a rabbit hole of discovery…a moment of stillness into a life full of joy! Join Bethan Burton each week, Sunday 4PM Pacific time, when a new episode is published. The podcast includes in-depth interviews with nature journalers Read More
Join Melinda and the Monterey Bay Nature Journal Club (MBNJC) outdoors in a nature preserve in an urban neighborhood near Monterey. Birds, blossoms, berries, redwoods and oaks await! Bring your sketchbook and curiosity as we explore a local nature preserve. We'll search for Blossoms and Berries as well as keeping an eye out for native Read More
Do you have questions about drawing, journaling, naturalist skills, or journaling teaching techniques? Join John Muir Laws and the Nature Journal Club every week for a one-hour open forum discussion where we explore (and hopefully answer) your questions live. Stick around at the end of the meeting for a lively group journal share and conversation. Read More
One way to connect other people with nature journaling is to carry small paper journals and pencils that you can give away with the basic information to help them start nature journaling. Let's design the perfect fold out give away journal that you can print out, fold and share. We will review how to fold Read More
“Stories are everywhere, if we know how to look.” -How to Teach Nature Journaling Join the Workshop In nature journaling, we use a mixture of words, pictures, and numbers. Join us for this new weekly workshop where we focus on WORDS. We’ll explore writing for different purposes: writing to observe, to think, to imagine, and Read More
Every week The Nature Journal Show provides you with tips, tricks, and techniques to help you get more out of your nature journaling! In addition to exciting nature journal adventures, and practical how-to episodes, there are also inspiring conversations with other nature journalers, nature artists, and nature researchers! Join the premieres every Wednesday at 6pm Read More
Super low-key, supportive drawing and chatting online hang-out: if there are pages in your journal you've been wanting to finish, or homework you're wanting to catch up on, or just plain want to draw in good company, please join us! * Together, we create a supportive space. If a person feels like sharing their work, Read More
Learn how to show depth in your drawings with linear perspective. We will explore the basics of how to use vanishing points to create the illusion of depth in rectilinear objects. Before the workshop download and print this worksheet: Perspective Grids. Click Here to Join the Zoom Workshop! Passcode: 187351 All ages and experience levels Read More
An introductory course. Live and interactive. Gain the tools and skills to be comfortable creating a nature journal page using various techniques. Develop your superpowers of observation and curiosity and begin to uncover what was unseen in nature. Six sessions, September 9, 2021 Thursday 4pm- 5:15pm Pacific For more details, dates and how to Read More
This is a meetup (not a workshop, much more informal sharing!) of the Skyscapito Appreciation Society! {click link to find out more about our little group!} We will be practicing sunrises and sunsets—prepare your skyscapito to share and maybe a few photos and we’ll practice together mixing colors and blending to get lovely smooth transitions. Read More
Join Brian Higginbotham and the Great Valley Nature Journal Club for weekly live nature journaling workshops. We review strategies for incorporating words, pictures, and numbers in our practice and share tips, techniques, and inspiration from the community and from past masters. Topics are announced in advance of the workshop and are held online through zoom. Read More
Super low-key, supportive drawing and chatting online hang-out: if there are pages in your journal you've been wanting to finish, or homework you're wanting to catch up on, or just plain want to draw in good company, please join us! * Together, we create a supportive space. If a person feels like sharing their work, Read More
Journaling With Nature is a podcast for those who want to turn curiosity into wonder…a pencil sketch into a rabbit hole of discovery…a moment of stillness into a life full of joy! Join Bethan Burton each week, Sunday 4PM Pacific time, when a new episode is published. The podcast includes in-depth interviews with nature journalers Read More
“Stories are everywhere, if we know how to look.” -How to Teach Nature Journaling Join the Workshop In nature journaling, we use a mixture of words, pictures, and numbers. Join us for this new weekly workshop where we focus on WORDS. We’ll explore writing for different purposes: writing to observe, to think, to imagine, and Read More
Every week The Nature Journal Show provides you with tips, tricks, and techniques to help you get more out of your nature journaling! In addition to exciting nature journal adventures, and practical how-to episodes, there are also inspiring conversations with other nature journalers, nature artists, and nature researchers! Join the premieres every Wednesday at 6pm Read More
Hi everyone! Pencil Miles & Chill is cancelled for today. I will hopefully be back in a little more than a week, on Saturday October 2nd.
Go deeper and build on the depth tricks we explored in the last workshop and add more advanced perspective views. How do we use and place vanishing points on subjects from barns to horses? how to show depth in your drawings and perspective basics that are practical and appropriate for showing depth in your nature Read More
An introductory course. Live and interactive. Gain the tools and skills to be comfortable creating a nature journal page using various techniques. Develop your superpowers of observation and curiosity and begin to uncover what was unseen in nature. Six sessions, September 9, 2021 Thursday 4pm- 5:15pm Pacific For more details, dates and how to Read More
Join Brian Higginbotham and the Great Valley Nature Journal Club for weekly live nature journaling workshops. We review strategies for incorporating words, pictures, and numbers in our practice and share tips, techniques, and inspiration from the community and from past masters. Topics are usually announced in advance of the workshop and are held online through Read More
Hi everyone! Pencil Miles & Chill is cancelled for today. I will hopefully be back in 2 weeks, on Saturday October 2nd.
What we'll be doing: Check Spark in Nature Events for Topic and details. When Start at 9:30 am- end at 11:30am Pacific Time. Schedule: Start with an introduction and demo of a topic We log off the computer to nature journal outside in our own nearby nature, Return to Zoom for sharing our discoveries and Read More
Journaling With Nature is a podcast for those who want to turn curiosity into wonder…a pencil sketch into a rabbit hole of discovery…a moment of stillness into a life full of joy! Join Bethan Burton each week, Sunday 4PM Pacific time, when a new episode is published. The podcast includes in-depth interviews with nature journalers Read More
A new course inspired by the quote from Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer: “It’s not just the land that is broken, but more importantly, our relationship to land...we can’t meaningfully proceed with healing, with restoration, without “re-story-ation.” In other words, our relationship with land cannot heal until we hear its stories. But who will Read More
Learn how to draw the moon and understand its phases. John Muir Laws will demonstrate how to draw the moon in its different phases, Discover key seas and craters that are visible with binoculars or a small telescope. Join the Nature Journal Club in an international moon observation on the night of September 29th. This Read More
Have you ever wondered about what makes our nature journaling Zoom sessions so engaging and enjoyable? Last Spring, Catherine Sky, a graduate student in the School of Education at Sonoma State University conducted a study on online teaching and learning practices in the nature journaling community. She will present her findings on online hospitality within Read More
“Stories are everywhere, if we know how to look.” -How to Teach Nature Journaling Join the Workshop In nature journaling, we use a mixture of words, pictures, and numbers. Join us for this new weekly workshop where we focus on WORDS. We’ll explore writing for different purposes: writing to observe, to think, to imagine, and Read More
Every week The Nature Journal Show provides you with tips, tricks, and techniques to help you get more out of your nature journaling! In addition to exciting nature journal adventures, and practical how-to episodes, there are also inspiring conversations with other nature journalers, nature artists, and nature researchers! Join the premieres every Wednesday at 6pm Read More
What we’ll be doing: Join the Salish Sea Nature Lovers (SSNL) as we creatively explore the Salish Sea Ecosystem together in community. Visit the SSNL website to register and explore the monthly theme. When: The last Wednesday evening of the month 7:00 - 8:30 pm PST Schedule: Begin with introductions, followed by exploring a Read More
Hi everyone! Pencil Miles & Chill is cancelled for today. I will be back in a few days, on Saturday October 2nd.
Join the Nature Journal Club in an international share out of moon observations from last night's last-quarter moon. We want everyone there but the closer to the pole you are, the more critical your data will be!!! Please join us. What is the relationship between your observation of the moon's orientation and the horizon? How Read More
An introductory course. Live and interactive. Gain the tools and skills to be comfortable creating a nature journal page using various techniques. Develop your superpowers of observation and curiosity and begin to uncover what was unseen in nature. Six sessions, September 9, 2021 Thursday 4pm- 5:15pm Pacific For more details, dates and how to Read More
Join Brian Higginbotham and the Great Valley Nature Journal Club for weekly live nature journaling workshops. We review strategies for incorporating words, pictures, and numbers in our practice and share tips, techniques, and inspiration from the community and from past masters. Topics are usually announced in advance of the workshop and are held online through Read More
Super low-key, supportive drawing and chatting online hang-out: if there are pages in your journal you've been wanting to finish, or homework you're wanting to catch up on, or just plain want to draw in good company, please join us! * Together, we create a supportive space. If a person feels like sharing their work, Read More