Landscape Drawing In Your Nature Journal-With Charcoal!
Do you want to practice landscape drawing while improving your nature sketches? If so, practicing drawing landscapes with charcoal can help you. First, and most importantly, drawing with charcoal will help you see values better. But what are values, you might ask. Value is the art term for how dark something is. We think about […]
Nature Comics to Show Action in Your Nature Journal
Have you ever witnessed an exciting event in nature? An action even that you could not represent in your nature journal? If so, then nature comics might be the perfect strategy for you to practice. This video did not turn out the way I was planning…However, nature is like that. And if we practice some […]
Flower Drawing in Your Nature Journal
Do you like flowers? Do you like drawing? If so then this video about flower drawing in your nature journal is for you! First, it is important to understand some basic botany to help you draw flowers accurately. In addition to making your drawing better this will also help you understand plant families. However, we […]
Nature Journaling at Home: In Your FRIDGE!
Come nature journaling at home with me as we explore my fridge! What is nature and where is it? And do you have to drive somewhere to find it?In spite of our tendency to look for it in national parks we can actually find nature at home. To start, I will show you how to […]
Botany Basics For Nature Journaling
In this video we learn botany basics to help you understand flowers. In so doing we can draw them better in our nature journals. Sometimes it is easier to draw something that you know nothing about. And sometimes it is easier to ask novel questions and make new observations if we know nothing about a […]
Drawing Prompts For Nature Journaling at Home
In this video you will learn ten drawing prompts that are fun, helpful, and engaging. Have you ever experienced creative block? Have you ever felt a lack of ideas or motivation to draw, make art, or nature journal? You are not alone. It is for that reason that I have created this list of prompts. […]
John Muir Laws Interview on The Nature Journal Show
John Muir Laws (aka Jack Laws) could inspire a hard boiled egg. In fact, after this interview you will never look an egg the same. But maybe you have never nature journaled before and you do not even have access to “nature.” regardless of whether you live in a national park or you live in […]
My First Nature Journal
Have you looked at your very first nature journal recently? Or are you just starting out with nature journaling? In this video I share the good, the bad, and the ugly from my very first nature sketchbook. Hopefully, it will not be too embarrassing… I first started nature journaling in February of 2014 after learning […]
Best Watercolor Palette
A good watercolor palette is one of the best art investments you can make so I am going to show you my favorite palette and four reasons why it is the best! When you are nature journaling or even urban sketching you can produce more compelling sketches faster if you have watercolor. As it turns […]
Best Brush Pens: Follow Up Review
Have you experimented with brush pens? Do you have time to sort through all the different types as well as their confusing names? In this video I review several types of brush pen that I have been using for nature sketches and nature journaling. When I first started nature journaling I had a limited number […]