John Muir Laws

Learn how to nature journal underwater with simple and easily accessible equipment. Join Mandy Teernstra and John Muir Laws as we explore how to nature journal underwater! This will change the way you snorkel forever. All ages and experience levels are welcome. No registration is necessary. About our guest My name is Mandy Teernstra. I Read More

Please join Yvea Eaton-Moore and John Muir Laws for a conversation and journal share about restoration nature journaling. Yvea has been a habitat restoration volunteer for many years in the Presidio of her hometown, San Francisco.  Five years ago, she began nature journaling her stewardship work; for three of those years, she kept consistent diaries ("the Monoceros Read More

Learn why to love beavers and how to draw them with John Muir Laws and special guest Heidi Perryman. Join John Muir Laws and Heidi Perryman as we explore beaver conservation, why beavers are important parts of ecosystems and how to draw these amazing creatures. Heidi Perryman, Ph.D., is a child psychologist who became an Read More

Learn five poetry formats you can explore in your nature journal with Starr Regan DiCiurcio. Join John Muir Laws and Starr Regan DiCiurcio for an exploration of poetry in nature journaling.  We will look at using our writing as well as the poetry of others.  Poetry’s powerful words go beyond facts and descriptions to the Read More

Join John Muir Laws, Author Eve Quesnel, and illustrator and nature journaler Anne Chadwick for a discussion of the process of writing and illustrating Snow Fleas and Chickadees. We will explore the creative process as well as amazing natural history stories. Join Author Eve Quesnel and Illustrator Anne Chadwick in a conversation with John Muir Read More

Alas a beautiful finch hit my window and died. Let's see what we can learn from it and how to prevent future strikes. Carolyn found a female House Finch that hit our window and died. Let's respectfullyuse it to learn about bird feather groups, foreshortening, and wings. Let's also take a look at ways to Read More

Learn how to draw birds from photographs and get access to an amazing new archive of bird reference photos! Join John Muir Laws and special guest Peter Hart to explore how to better use photographs to inform bird illustrations. We will use Peter's photo collection to sample birds and build an original drawing. Peter encourages Read More

How do you draw bears in the field? Live Nature Journaling workshop with Bea Martin and John Muir Laws. Let's explore the incredibly interesting, calming (and sometimes unexpected!) activity of wildlife sketching bears from direct observation. Beatriz Martin will share her experinces during her 2024 Voices of the Wilderness Artist in Residency in Tongass National Read More

Join me as I explore The Foster Museum to study the work of Tony Foster. Can we reverse engineer how he paints rocks and mountains? Tony Foster is the GOAT of watercolor landscapes. Let's see what we can learn about how to draw and paint rocks and mountains in a live broadcast from The Foster Read More

Join a live discussion with Emilie Lygren and John Muir Laws about poetry, process, and our relationship with nature. Join John Muir Laws and poet/author Emilie Lygren for a discussion of her new book of poetry. Let's learn about her process and how to incorporate some of those ideas into our own nature journaling. Once Read More