Monterey Bay Nature Journal Club
Monterey Bay Nature Journal Club
Join us on Zoom for a morning of nature journaling! Check Melinda's website Event Tab for the topic and link for registration.
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Lunar Eclipse Watch Party
Lunar Eclipse Watch Party
Join us for a look at the total Lunar Eclipse! We encourage folks to observe and document what you see and share it live. We will keep a special Zoom room open throughout the eclipse. Drop in any time or keep the zoom room open as you go about your evening and share when you Read More
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Nature Journal Educator’s Forum
Nature Journal Educator’s Forum
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
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Nature Journaling that Promotes Authentic Inquiry and Investigation
Nature Journaling that Promotes Authentic Inquiry and Investigation
notice, I wonder, It reminds me of… Words, pictures, numbers… How do we integrate the nature journaling toolkit in ways that promote authentic inquiry and investigation? Learn how to take your I wonder questions and craft them into investigations. Learn how to use the "Let’s see, could it be, let it be" framework to classify your questions and Read More
$20
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Pencil Miles & Chill (Thursdays)
Pencil Miles & Chill (Thursdays)
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
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The Great Valley Nature Journal Club Workshop
The Great Valley Nature Journal Club Workshop
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
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Desert Wildflowers in your Watercolor Nature Journal
Desert Wildflowers in your Watercolor Nature Journal
I've spent this springtime in Red Rock Canyon, NV hunting wildflowers with my knowledgable friends Pete and Gareth. After a very dry season last year, this one has made up for lost time with one of the best displays of Mariposa Lilies in several years, I'm told. I'd like to share the joy of sketching Read More
$45
Pencil Miles & Chill (Saturdays)
Pencil Miles & Chill (Saturdays)
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
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The Desert Landscape in your Watercolor Nature Journal
The Desert Landscape in your Watercolor Nature Journal
Explore the Mojave desert landscape including vast skies, towering limestone and sandstone formations, desert cacti and more in this workshop focussing on Red Rock Canyon, NV. We'll be working from photos of the area and simplify the landscape with hands-on teaching aids that give you confidence. This is a zoom workshop. If you can't attend Read More
$45
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Birdsong Sketching and Nature Journaling
Birdsong Sketching and Nature Journaling
Please join nature journaling guide and educator Melinda Nakagawa in the field to learn how to sketch bird songs in your nature journal. Building your awareness of sounds, your audio and visual vocabulary, and your memory of bird songs are invaluable field skills, whether you're a beginner or have been nature journaling for many years. Read More
Ask Jack
Ask Jack
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
$20
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Best Practices- Words (Educator’s Forum)
Best Practices- Words (Educator’s Forum)
What are the best ways to use words in our nature journals? How can we expand students' tool kits? What works, what doesn't. 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
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Salish Sea Nature Lovers: SSNL Monthly ZOOM Gathering
Salish Sea Nature Lovers: SSNL Monthly ZOOM Gathering
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
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Pencil Miles & Chill (Thursdays)
Pencil Miles & Chill (Thursdays)
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
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Birdsong Sketching and Nature Journaling
Birdsong Sketching and Nature Journaling
Please join nature journaling guide and educator Melinda Nakagawa in the field to learn how to sketch bird songs in your nature journal. Building your awareness of sounds, your audio and visual vocabulary, and your memory of bird songs are invaluable field skills, whether you're a beginner or have been nature journaling for many years. Read More
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Coastal Cliffs and Waves
Coastal Cliffs and Waves
Let me show you some problem-solving I did around drawing coastal landscapes. On a recent trip to Monterey, I was flummoxed by drawing the cliffs and sea- a ubiquitous sight in that area. When I got home I played with different strategies and figured out some fast ways to capture the effects I was seen Read More
$20
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The Dynamic Sky in your Watercolor Nature Journal
The Dynamic Sky in your Watercolor Nature Journal
The ever changing sky deeply affects the mood of the day. We feel it internally, and we witness it visually. You will learn techniques to render clear blue skies, billowing cumulus clouds, wispy cirrus clouds, dark and ominous stratus clouds and colorful sunsets using my hands-on exercises and demos. This is a zoom workshop which is "live" Read More
$45
Pencil Miles & Chill (Saturdays)
Pencil Miles & Chill (Saturdays)
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
Free
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Design a Page of Memories in your Watercolor Nature Journal
Design a Page of Memories in your Watercolor Nature Journal
The memories you make in your time in nature are enhanced by combining close-up studies, sense-of-place landscapes, writing, and color matching. In this workshop you will work with exercises in page layout using flexible grids that help organize material and create a cohesive and lively presentation of elements, plus you'll get direction in how to develop your own Read More
$45
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Birdsong Sketching and Nature Journaling
Birdsong Sketching and Nature Journaling
Please join nature journaling guide and educator Melinda Nakagawa in the field to learn how to sketch bird songs in your nature journal. Building your awareness of sounds, your audio and visual vocabulary, and your memory of bird songs are invaluable field skills, whether you're a beginner or have been nature journaling for many years. Read More
Ask Jack
Ask Jack
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
$20
3 events,
International Nature Journaling Week
Please join nature journalers from all over the world for the third annual International Nature Journaling Week! This year, we will celebrate going 'back to basics' with seven themes, one for each day, along with several nature journal teachers guiding us through activities and practices. To learn more about this year's themes and the history Read More
Nature Journal Writing Workshop Wednesdays
Nature Journal Writing Workshop Wednesdays
“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
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Best Practices- Numbers (Educator’s Forum)
Best Practices- Numbers (Educator’s Forum)
What are the best ways to use words in our nature journals? How can we expand students' tool kits? What are the best ways to quantify our observations? How can we play with numbers more dynamically? Learn how to teach Nature Journaling! Join our weekly discussion and idea-sharing for teachers, home school parents, and other Read More
Free
3 events,
Pencil Miles & Chill (Thursdays)
Pencil Miles & Chill (Thursdays)
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
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John Busby: nature journaling inspiration
John Busby: nature journaling inspiration
Learn from the artwork of one of the greatest bird sketchers of all time. John Busby made fast sketches a pencil and watercolor wash system that can inspire our own work. Let's study Busby's work and see what we can learn. Join John Muir Laws and Valters Videnieks for a close exploration of the sketches Read More
$20
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2 events,
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Canceled Pencil Miles & Chill (Saturdays)
Canceled Pencil Miles & Chill (Saturdays)
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 Read More
Free