Nature Journal Club

Join John Muir Laws and Jenny Atkinson from The Whale Museum. In this workshop, you will learn about the amazing lifestyles of resident orca, including conservation and what we can do to protect the whales.  You will also learn how to draw orca as they breach, breathe, spyhop, and wave their tails. Located in Friday Read More

Join the Nature Journal Workshop for a special class on drawing penguins and a discussion with Pablo Barcia Borboroglu of the Global Penguin Society about penguin conservation and stewardship. Learn advanced tricks to help you draw penguins in perspective, proportions and patterns for different species of penguins, and penguin habitat, and learn how you can Read More

The Equinox is coming! Let's get ready for this key event in the cycles of the earth and sun by setting up our journals, learning strategies to safely record the sun's position. Download and print out the (free) Sun Cycle Target before the workshop. Bring Your journal and pencil Compass with inclinometer Cosign Table The Read More

Capture the energy and intensity of the heron's stare. Learn to draw the angles and curves of heron and egret necks as they actively forage or settle down to rest. Explore and understand the anatomy of the body and legs in ways that help you draw what you see. This live workshop can hold 500 Read More

Keeping a nature journal is one of the best ways to improve your birding skills. While online platforms such as ebird help you sort and manage your species lists while contributing to citizen science, they can not help you see more deeply and remember your experience more vividly. This is the magic of a paper Read More

The Equinox is coming! Let's get ready for this key event in the cycles of the earth and sun by setting up our journals, learning strategies to safely record the sun's position. Download and print out the (free) Sun Cycle Target before the workshop. Bring Your journal and pencil Compass with inclinometer Cosign Table The Read More

Join John Muir Laws and the Sierra Nevada Conservancy for a virtual stroll and nature journaling workshop. Learn how to keep a nature journal and set up your nature journaling kit for backpacking, and how to draw mountain landscapes, plants, and animals. Learn about the work of the Conservancy to promote the ecological and economic Read More

Join John Muir Laws and journalers from around the world as we share our observations and field notes from the equinox! This is a free Zoom Event.   Click Here to Join the Zoom Workshop!   All ages and experience levels are welcome. No registration is necessary, This live workshop can hold 500 people and Read More