Join me and Ryan Petterson Sunday, May 24 at 10 am AZ time (GMT - 7) for a free online workshop for field sketchers and nature journalers.

[UPDATE: HERE IS THE LINK TO THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS WORKSHOP.]

On the first workshop (May 9), we touched a little on landscape sketching—this time, we’ll choose a landscape using a 360-degree-view website, and then each of us will demonstrate how we zero’d in on a scene, and then do a live sketch and discussion of our thinking and drawing process and techniques, adding color at the end. Plan to draw along, we’ll build in time. We’ll also have a Q and A session. Ryan is Director of Field Education, School of Earth Energy and Environmental Sciences at Stanford University.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED:

To protect our security and to let me know who will be joining us, please sign up through this form HERE; once you sign up, I will send you a link to the private Zoom meeting.

Hope to see you next Sunday!

Pre-workshop resources (not required, just FYI):

• If you would like to sketch and paint along with me and Ryan, have your field notebook / nature journal handy, and a waterproof pen (if doing watercolor, too) or pencil.

• Explore the region we’ll be visiting on our virtual field trip, Mosedale, Wasdale Head, Ritson’s Force, Lake District, NW England:

  • VRGlaciers, University of Worcester website

    • Click on the orange “TAKE ME THERE” to go to the 360-degree view; we’ll be at site #4. See you there!

  • To see Wasdale Head region on Google Maps, click here.

  • Veteran Trees in the Lake District

  • Lake District Important Plant Area

  • Lake District, Wikipedia

  • Geology of the Lake District

• John Muir Laws on sketching “landscapitos”— here, and peruse Instagram for great quick-sketches hash tagged #landscapito here.

• Find out about natural landscape types here on this ECStep website.

• Drawing and painting the landscape has always been culturally important. This article from My Modern Met shows our connection with landscape through art, and how artists have interpreted the backdrop of nature’s scenery through the ages. [Thanks to Bethan at NatureJournalingWeek.com for the last two tips.]

To see past workshop videos and other tutorials, please visit the Field Arts Institute page.