What art therapy tools and lessons can we incorporate into our nature journaling practices? What works, and what can we share with our students? 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 Read More

How can you draw lively, babbling brooks and cascades? Let's sit beside the stream and draw. Let's look at techniques to help us draw the riffles and pools of a mountain stream. We will explore techniques with pen, pencil, and watercolor (perhaps gouache too if we have time but you know how that goes). Join Read More

Continuing from our summer forum: do you work with nature-reluctant kids? What are their reasons for their reluctance? Let's discuss creative problem-solving to get around these barriers! To view the discussion from the summer forum, please click here. Learn how to teach Nature Journaling! Join our weekly discussion and idea-sharing for teachers, home-school parents, and Read More

Learn how to draw mammal heads from the front, side, and 3/4 view. Let's explore templates for drawing mammal heads from all angles. These methods will help you draw animal faces across many species. Join John Muir Laws for weekly live nature Journaling workshops with tips, techniques, inspiration, teaching strategies, and interviews. Topics are usually Read More

What do we mean when we say "it's not about the pretty pictures"? What IS the pretty picture anyway? Lean into this discussion about the pretty picture: how do we define it? Is there room for it in nature journaling, and if so, how? When working with students and telling them that "it's not about Read More

Learn to draw mice with John Muir Laws and special guests, Chloe, Penny, Nickle, and Dime. This is a special workshop I will be joined by my friend Chloe in Missouri and her three super cute friends Penny, Nickle, and Dime. I will show some approaches to drawing rodents and then Chloe will share her Read More

Adding habitat elements to a sketch of an animal will help you observe and remember. 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 Read More

Join Billie Jo Reid and Christine Chapel as they share their recent experience of presenting a workshop, "Integrating Nature Journaling as a Tool in your Classroom", at an outdoor educators' conference. 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 Read More

Learn the basic quadruped plan. This is essential for fast drawings of any four-legged mammal. Learn how to quickly block in the body shape of any four-legged mammal. What should you notice and record first? What differences should we look out for as we move between species? What reliable generalizations can we make? How do Read More