Join Kate Chandler and her special guest marine biologist Sarah McAnulty to discuss squid, octopus, and cuttlefish behaviors. Bring your nature journal, art supplies, and a burning curiosity about all things cephalopod! Please join the YouTube livestream here: https://youtu.be/R-XWzUwejxU Suggested donation $5 https://ko-fi.com/kchandlerillustration
Do you want to practice "seeing" plants better? In this 9-week course, we will be looking closer at 8 plant families who we often find in our foods. We will examine flower patterns and practice identifying members of the families - skills and curiosity you can carry forth as you explore plants in the future. Read More
Ask you Nature Journaling questions live with John Muir Laws. 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 Read More
Do you want to practice “seeing” plants better? In this 9-week course, we will be looking closer at 8 plant families who we often find in our foods. We will examine flower patterns and practice identifying members of the families – skills and curiosity you can carry forth as you explore plants in the future. Read More
Join a weekly conversation with parents and educators around the globe to discuss best practices and ideas in education and Nature Journaling. 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 Read More
Join us we welcome Jack back from his amazing adventures this summer and hear all about his Nature Journaling experience. 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 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
Join John Muir Laws and special guest Gael Calvis as we learn about and draw some of the amazing birds of Gael's home country:the Rufus Hornoro (national bird of Argentena), Swainson's Hawk (a migrant between the United States and Argentina, and the Many-colored Rush-tyrant (a crazy beautiful bird). All ages and experience levels are welcome. Read More
Take a peak through my microscope and learn about the lives of insects as we draw them together! Join Trisha every Thursday at 10pm EST (7pm PDT) to check out insects under a microscope and sketch along while we chat bugs. I am an entomologist with a passion for sharing crazy bug facts and sketching. 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
Spend 5 days and nights at the Sierra Nevada Field Campus located in the stunning Lakes Basin area of the Sierras where the trails are filled with the wonders of nature. Water moves through the Lakes Basin as an ever-present undercurrent to the land surrounding the Sierra Buttes. In this workshop instructed by Kristin Meuser, we Read More
Do you want to practice "seeing" plants better? In this 9-week course, we will be looking closer at 8 plant families who we often find in our foods. We will examine flower patterns and practice identifying members of the families - skills and curiosity you can carry forth as you explore plants in the future. Read More
Ask you Nature Journaling questions live with John Muir Laws. 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 Read More
This event is available to anyone who has ordered Robin’s book, The Cold Canyon Fire Journals, and Heyday members. To gain access to the event, please email your order receipt to coldcanyon@heydaybooks.com. In this free, virtual event, Robin will be joined by John Muir Laws, author of The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling. Together the two will Read More
Do you want to practice “seeing” plants better? In this 9-week course, we will be looking closer at 8 plant families who we often find in our foods. We will examine flower patterns and practice identifying members of the families – skills and curiosity you can carry forth as you explore plants in the future. Read More
In the nature journal community, we love to use our "Growth Mindset" so we can get better at things we're not good at (yet). But another approach to skill development is "Strength-based Learning," which has a focus on identifying and cultivating students' core competencies. At first glance, these two approaches seem to be at odds 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 about the mechanics of flight and how to draw birds in the air. Join John Muir Laws and special guest, bird photographer, and researcher Peter Cavanagh for a close look at bird flight. Peter will share photos and lessons learned from his new book 100 Birds in Flight. John will use these photos as Read More
Take a peak through my microscope and learn about the lives of insects as we draw them together! Join Trisha every Thursday at 10pm EST (7pm PDT) to check out insects under a microscope and sketch along while we chat bugs. I am an entomologist with a passion for sharing crazy bug facts and sketching. 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
Do you want to practice "seeing" plants better? In this 9-week course, we will be looking closer at 8 plant families who we often find in our foods. We will examine flower patterns and practice identifying members of the families - skills and curiosity you can carry forth as you explore plants in the future. Read More
Do you want to practice “seeing” plants better? In this 9-week course, we will be looking closer at 8 plant families who we often find in our foods. We will examine flower patterns and practice identifying members of the families – skills and curiosity you can carry forth as you explore plants in the future. Read More
Join us this week as we discuss ways to put ourselves into our Nature Journals! Can this be another way of self care? 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. Read More
After the premiere of "How to nature Journal in Five steps" I will be doing a live brainstrom session on how to nature journal using some of the best nature journaling techniques I have developed in over 5 years of teaching. Join the live chat for beginner nature journalers, intermediate and advanced nature journalers from 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
Take a peak through my microscope and learn about the lives of insects as we draw them together! Join Trisha every Thursday at 10pm EST (7pm PDT) to check out insects under a microscope and sketch along while we chat bugs. I am an entomologist with a passion for sharing crazy bug facts and sketching. 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
Join us on Zoom for a morning of nature journaling! Check Melinda’s website Event Tab for the topic and link for registration. Each month there will be a topic, demonstration, then time for solo off-line nature journaling before returning to Zoom to share. August: Tracking Trees Join us this month for a session about trees. Read More
Ask you Nature Journaling questions live with John Muir Laws. 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 Read More
What is the science behind personality tests and do they have a place in education? What about learning styles? Do they help children learn? Have you ever been asked to take a personality test for a job? How have you seen these tests used in the classroom? What about Learning Styles? Are you a visual, 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
Join Robin Lee Carlson and John Muir Laws in a discussion of nature journaling in the aftermath of a wildfire. When the nature reserve at Cold Canyon went up in flames—a casualty of California’s raging fire seasons—Robin Lee Carlson embarked on a five-year journey to learn the legacy of the burn. What she saw challenged Read More
Take a peak through my microscope and learn about the lives of insects as we draw them together! Join Trisha every Thursday at 10pm EST (7pm PDT) to check out insects under a microscope and sketch along while we chat bugs. I am an entomologist with a passion for sharing crazy bug facts and sketching. Read More
Join Melinda Nakagawa, (leader of Monterey Nature Journal Club, and nature journal educator) for an afternoon of nature journaling and enjoying otters, birds and other wildlife and landscapes in Elkhorn slough. This is a nature journaling workshop experience! We will learn how to put what you see in a nature journal with sketches and words. 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
Sunday, August 28 (Part 1) 8:00–11:00 am PDT/ 11:00 am–2:00 pm EDT (Part 2) 12:00–3:00 pm PDT/ 3:00–6:00 pm EDT Explore bird anatomy and structure to help you create fast and accurate field sketches or careful studio pieces with the help of reference. This 1-day, 6-hr workshop (with a 1-hour lunch break) will teach you Read More
Ask you Nature Journaling questions live with John Muir Laws. 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 Read More
Join a weekly conversation with parents and educators around the globe to discuss best practices and ideas in education and Nature Journaling. 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 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
Painting shadows with lively colors or on light blue objects is challenging. Let me show you my tricks. Join John Muir Laws for weekly live nature Journaling workshops with tips, techniques, inspiration, teaching strategies, and interviews. Topics are usually announced in advance of the workshop. If special materials or class-specific downloads are available, you can Read More
Take a peak through my microscope and learn about the lives of insects as we draw them together! Join Trisha every Thursday at 10pm EST (7pm PDT) to check out insects under a microscope and sketch along while we chat bugs. I am an entomologist with a passion for sharing crazy bug facts and sketching. Read More