{"id":3790,"date":"2022-09-25T06:10:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T13:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marleypeifer.com\/dev\/?p=3790"},"modified":"2022-09-25T06:10:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T13:10:13","slug":"smaller-than-your-pinky-challenge-day-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marleypeifer.com\/dev\/nature-journal-community\/smaller-than-your-pinky-challenge-day-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Smaller than your pinky: Challenge Day 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

How often do you nature journal something smaller than your pinky? Are you biased towards bigger subjects?<\/p>\n

Today’s Prompt: Smaller than your pinky<\/h3>\n

I can’t remember who on the Nature Journal Club Facebook page recommended this prompt. This is a funny prompt regardless. In fact it could be just funny enough to break you out of a creative rut. Scale is really important in nature and art. Unfortunately, we often get locked into one scale. For example, if I flip through my nature journal pages I might see that all my drawings are the same size! That’s not ideal. We also tend to have a size bias when we look at nature. Let’s use today’s prompt to help us appreciate the micro.<\/p>\n

Some nature journaling ideas for today’s prompt<\/h3>\n
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  1. Look for bugs outside. Some good places to find them are under potted plants in your garden, trapped in windowsills, at porch lights at night or in the morning.<\/li>\n
  2. If you don’t want to look for your own bugs check out one of these awesome YouTube videos nature journaling bugs under a microscope!<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Don’t like bugs? No worries. Try a study of baby plants, seedlings, seeds, or micro flowers. There is a lot of cool stuff in the plant kingdom that is smaller than your pinky.<\/li>\n
  4. Try mushrooms. You know what I mean.<\/li>\n
  5. Look at a small part of something bigger. You can use a small microscope or magnifying glass to zoom in. This can be extremely addictive! Make sure you take breaks every once in a while to look up and relax your eyes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Want to get microscopic?!<\/h3>\n

    As the Marcel Proust quote goes “”The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Well, looking through a microscope gives you new eyes. Suddenly that little bit of dirty water in the tray under your potted plant is a Serengeti of life. Don’t believe me? Check out this video below.<\/p>\n