Field Arts Workshop: Around the World in 80 Animals No. 8 (East and South Asia)
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Draco_spilonotus By A.S.Kono - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
Based on my series Around the World in 80 Trees (in which we spent a year traveling around the globe by region and sketching interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants), this is a new series based on animals—we’ll travel the world and learn as much natural history as we can, plus master the art of quickly sketching birds, mammals, monotremes, and more!
No. 8: Eastern and South Asia
What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook or an accordion style booklet (see below), pen and / or pencil for our base drawings, and then watercolor or colored pencil to quickly bring them to life.
TIP: For plants I used a strip of heavy watercolor paper folded into four squares to create an “accordion” booklet to record my trees (8 total, 4 on each side). For animals I recommend a full sketchbook, or larger squares, at least 5” if you choose an accordion.
Prepwork: Create a map of the region so you can place the regions the species were located.
Length: 2 hours
Downloads and Resources
Colors and brush I use:
I favor a simple primary “triad” plus two extra colors: Manganese Blue (“cyan”), Quinacridone Rose (“magenta”), Aureolin Yellow (“yellow”), and Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue, all Daniel Smith.
I use an Isabey Squirrel Mop Travel Brush or a Pentel Waterbrush, depending on my mood!
Any amount is appreciated!
ROSEANN’S FINISHED PAGES
ATTENDEES’ Pages from the Workshop
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Field Arts Workshop: Around the World in 80 Animals No. 7 (Middle East and W. Asia)
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Nubian ibex by Netzach Farbiash, Ph.D Pikiwiki Israel, CC BY 2.5 Wikipedia
Golden hamster By Harpoen - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
Based on my series Around the World in 80 Trees (in which we spent a year traveling around the globe by region and sketching interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants), this is a new series based on animals—we’ll travel the world and learn as much natural history as we can, plus master the art of quickly sketching birds, mammals, monotremes, and more!
No. 7: Middle East and Western Asia
What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook or an accordion style booklet (see below), pen and / or pencil for our base drawings, and then watercolor or colored pencil to quickly bring them to life.
TIP: For plants I used a strip of heavy watercolor paper folded into four squares to create an “accordion” booklet to record my trees (8 total, 4 on each side). For animals I recommend a full sketchbook, or larger squares, at least 5” if you choose an accordion.
Prepwork: Create a map of the region so you can place the regions the species were located.
Length: 2 hours
Downloads and Resources
Colors and brush I use:
I favor a simple primary “triad” plus two extra colors: Manganese Blue (“cyan”), Quinacridone Rose (“magenta”), Aureolin Yellow (“yellow”), and Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue, all Daniel Smith.
I use an Isabey Squirrel Mop Travel Brush.
Any amount is appreciated!
ROSEANN’S FINISHED PAGES
ATTENDEES’ Pages from the Workshop
Please post your pages on our Field Arts Community Forum! It’s free and easy to register, and private!
Field Arts Workshop: Around the World in 80 Animals No. 6 (Europe)
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Iberian wolf (by Arturo de Frias Marques - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36546315)
Eurasian red squirrel (by hedera.baltica from Wrocław, Poland - Squirrel, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43379772 )
Based on my series Around the World in 80 Trees (in which we spent a year traveling around the globe by region and sketching interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants), this is a new series based on animals—we’ll travel the world and learn as much natural history as we can, plus master the art of quickly sketching birds, mammals, monotremes, and more!
No. 6: Europe
What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook or an accordion style booklet (see below), pen and / or pencil for our base drawings, and then watercolor or colored pencil to quickly bring them to life.
TIP: For plants I used a strip of heavy watercolor paper folded into four squares to create an “accordion” booklet to record my trees (8 total, 4 on each side). For animals I recommend a full sketchbook, or larger squares, at least 5” if you choose an accordion.
Prepwork: Create a map of the region so you can place the regions the species were located.
Length: 2 hours
Downloads and Resources
Colors and brush I use:
I favor a simple primary “triad” plus two extra colors: Manganese Blue (“cyan”), Quinacridone Rose (“magenta”), Aureolin Yellow (“yellow”), and Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue, all Daniel Smith.
I use an Isabey Squirrel Mop Travel Brush.
Any amount is appreciated!
ROSEANN’S FINISHED PAGE
ATTENDEES’ Pages from the Workshop
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Field Arts Workshop: Around the World in 80 Animals No. 5 (Africa, Pt. 2)
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By Olaf Oliviero Riemer, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18375332
naturepl.com / : Daniel Heuclin Media ID 20783286 © www.naturepl.com https://www.natureplprints.com/april-2021-highlights/sahara-sand-viper-cerastes-vipera-20783286.html
Based on my series Around the World in 80 Trees (in which we spent a year traveling around the globe by region and sketching interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants), this is a new series based on animals—we’ll travel the world and learn as much natural history as we can, plus master the art of quickly sketching birds, mammals, monotremes, and more!
No. 4: Africa (Part 1)
What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook or an accordion style booklet (see below), pen and / or pencil for our base drawings, and then watercolor or colored pencil to quickly bring them to life.
TIP: For plants I used a strip of heavy watercolor paper folded into four squares to create an “accordion” booklet to record my trees (8 total, 4 on each side). For animals I recommend a full sketchbook, or larger squares, at least 5” if you choose an accordion.
Prepwork: Create a map of the region so you can place the regions the species were located.
Length: 2 hours
Downloads and Resources
Colors and brush I use:
I favor a simple primary “triad” plus two extra colors: Manganese Blue (“cyan”), Quinacridone Rose (“magenta”), Aureolin Yellow (“yellow”), and Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue, all Daniel Smith.
I use an Isabey Squirrel Mop Travel Brush.
Any amount is appreciated!
ROSEANN’S FINISHED PAGE
ATTENDEES’ Pages from the Workshop
Please post your pages on our Field Arts Community Forum! It’s free and easy to register, and private!
Field Arts Workshop: Around the World in 80 Animals No. 4 (Africa, Pt. 1)
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Getty Images - Unsplash Plus.com
Based on my series Around the World in 80 Trees (in which we spent a year traveling around the globe by region and sketching interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants), this is a new series based on animals—we’ll travel the world and learn as much natural history as we can, plus master the art of quickly sketching birds, mammals, monotremes, and more!
No. 4: Africa (Part 1)
What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook or an accordion style booklet (see below), pen and / or pencil for our base drawings, and then watercolor or colored pencil to quickly bring them to life.
TIP: For plants I used a strip of heavy watercolor paper folded into four squares to create an “accordion” booklet to record my trees (8 total, 4 on each side). For animals I recommend a full sketchbook, or larger squares, at least 5” if you choose an accordion.
Prepwork: Create a map of the region so you can place the regions the species were located.
Length: 2 hours
Downloads and Resources
Colors and brush I use:
I favor a simple primary “triad” plus two extra colors: Manganese Blue (“cyan”), Quinacridone Rose (“magenta”), Aureolin Yellow (“yellow”), and Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue, all Daniel Smith.
I use an Isabey Squirrel Mop Travel Brush.
Any amount is appreciated!
ROSEANN’S FINISHED PAGE
ATTENDEES’ Pages from the Workshop
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Field Arts Workshop: Around the World in 80 Animals No. 3 (South America)
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Photo: Jonathan Hanson
Electrophorus_electricus_showing_lateral_line_pits By Oleksandr (Alex) Zakletsky - Own work, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia
Based on my series Around the World in 80 Trees (in which we spent a year traveling around the globe by region and sketching interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants), this is a new series based on animals—we’ll travel the world and learn as much natural history as we can, plus master the art of quickly sketching birds, mammals, monotremes, and more!
No. 3: South America
What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook or an accordion style booklet (see below), pen and / or pencil for our base drawings, and then watercolor or colored pencil to quickly bring them to life.
TIP: For plants I used a strip of heavy watercolor paper folded into four squares to create an “accordion” booklet to record my trees (8 total, 4 on each side). For animals I recommend a full sketchbook, or larger squares, at least 5” if you choose an accordion.
Prepwork: Create a map of the region so you can place the regions the species were located.
Length: 2 hours, 17 minutes
Downloads and Resources
Colors and brush I use:
I favor a simple primary “triad” plus two extra colors: Manganese Blue (“cyan”), Quinacridone Rose (“magenta”), Aureolin Yellow (“yellow”), and Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue, all Daniel Smith.
I use an Isabey Squirrel Mop Travel Brush.
Any amount is appreciated!
ROSEANN’S FINISHED PAGES
ATTENDEES’ Pages from the Workshop
Please post your pages on our Field Arts Community Forum! It’s free and easy to register, and private!
Field Arts Workshop: Around the World in 80 Animals No. 2 (North America Part 2)
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Based on my series Around the World in 80 Trees (in which we spent a year traveling around the globe by region and sketching interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants), this is a new series based on animals—we’ll travel the world and learn as much natural history as we can, plus master the art of quickly sketching birds, mammals, monotremes, and more!
No. 2: North America, Part 2, the South
What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook or an accordion style booklet (see below), pen and / or pencil for our base drawings, and then watercolor or colored pencil to quickly bring them to life.
TIP: I used a strip of heavy watercolor paper folded into four squares to create an “accordion” booklet to record my trees (8 total, 4 on each side). For animals I recommend larger squares, at least 5” if you choose an accordion.
Prepwork: Create a map of the region so you can place the regions the species were located.
Length: 2 hours
Downloads and Resources
Colors and brush I use:
I favor a simple primary “triad” plus two extra colors: Manganese Blue (“cyan”), Quinacridone Rose (“magenta”), Aureolin Yellow (“yellow”), and Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue, all Daniel Smith.
I use an Isabey Squirrel Mop Travel Brush.
Any amount is appreciated!
ROSEANN’S FINISHED PAGES
ATTENDEES’ Pages from the Workshop
Please post your pages on our Field Arts Community Forum! It’s free and easy to register, and private!
Field Arts Workshop: Around the World in 80 Animals No. 1 (North America Part 1)
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Based on my series Around the World in 80 Trees (in which we spent a year traveling around the globe by region and sketching interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants), this is a new series based on animals—we’ll travel the world and learn as much natural history as we can, plus master the art of quickly sketching birds, mammals, monotremes, and more!
No. 1: North America, Part 1, the North
What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook or an accordion style booklet (see below), pen and / or pencil for our base drawings, and then watercolor or colored pencil to quickly bring them to life.
TIP: I used a strip of heavy watercolor paper folded into four squares to create an “accordion” booklet to record my trees (8 total, 4 on each side). For animals I recommend larger squares, at least 5” if you choose an accordion.
Prepwork: Create a map of the world so you can sketch location points for each species (North America, Pacific, Australia Europe).
Length: 2 hours
Downloads and Resources
Colors and brush I use:
I favor a simple primary “triad” plus two extra colors: Manganese Blue (“cyan”), Quinacridone Rose (“magenta”), Aureolin Yellow (“yellow”), and Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue, all Daniel Smith.
I use an Isabey Squirrel Mop Travel Brush.
ROSEANN’S FINISHED PAGES—I didn’t do a world map this time! I will next episode
ATTENDEES’ Pages from the Workshop
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Field Arts Workshop: Creative Night Skies (Full Class)
How do you journal night skies? It's always been a love-hate thing for me—I love tracking the stars and planets and finding constellations, but depicting them in journals can be challenging!
In this free online workshop, I demonstrate four different approaches:
Pre-painted watercolor skies on which you can add sky components live or after a sky-viewing telescope session (a technique inspired by Alaska artist Kristin Link);
Making a cutaway peek-a-boo window showing day-and-night;
Using Sharpies and white, silver, or other metallic pens and pencils; and
Using black paper and white, silver, or other metallic pens, pencils, and paint.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED:
Journal with or sheets of watercolor paper;
Paint colors: Indigo, Pthalo Blue (Green Shade), Quinacridone Rose or similar, Burnt Sienna (mine are Daniel Smith but any brand will do);
Hair dryer;
White gel pen (the best is Uniball Signo;
White and red colored pencils;
For fun if you have them: metallic paints or pens and pencils;
Black Sharpie;
Black paper.
Here is a link to a static post with photos and more instructions:
https://www.exploringoverland.com/constantapprentice/2023/4/10/journaling-night-skies
Attendees’ Pages
Field Arts Workshop: Around the World in 80 Trees No. 10 (Final Episode!)
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Inspired by Jonathan Drori’s wonderful books Around the World in 80 Trees and Around the World Plants, we’re going to travel around the globe by region and sketch interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants.
Part 10: Viewer Favorites
What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook or an accordion style booklet (see below), pen and / or pencil for our base drawings, and then watercolor or colored pencil to quickly bring them to life.
TIP: I used a strip of heavy watercolor paper folded into four squares to create an “accordion” booklet to record my trees (8 total, 4 on each side).
Prepwork: Create a map of the world so you can sketch location points for each species (North America, Pacific, Australia Europe).
Length: 2 hours
Downloads and Resources
Books and References:
Plants of the World, hosted by Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, is an amazing resource. The hardbound book of the same name is a treasure, and I use it extensively in my research for this series.
Colors and brush I use:
I favor a simple primary “triad” plus two extra colors: Manganese Blue (“cyan”), Quinacridone Rose (“magenta”), Aureolin Yellow (“yellow”), and Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue, all Daniel Smith.
I use an Isabey Squirrel Mop Travel Brush.
ROSEANN’S FINISHED ACCORDION PAGE
ATTENDEES’ Pages from the Workshop
Please post your pages on our Field Arts Community Forum! It’s free and easy to register, and private!
Field Arts Workshop: Around the World in 80 Trees No. 9 (Oceania)
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Inspired by Jonathan Drori’s wonderful books Around the World in 80 Trees and Around the World Plants, we’re going to travel around the globe by region and sketch interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants.
Part 9: Oceania
What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook or an accordion style booklet (see below), pen and / or pencil for our base drawings, and then watercolor or colored pencil to quickly bring them to life.
TIP: I used a strip of heavy watercolor paper folded into four squares to create an “accordion” booklet to record my trees (8 total, 4 on each side).
Prepwork: have on hand a simple outline map of Oceana, taking in New Zealand to Rapa Nui, and north to Hawai’i (see resources below) so you can sketch location points for each species.
Length: 2 hours
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Downloads and Resources
Locations of the 8 species for this workshop (these are not the ranges, but the site where the specimen we sketch is located).
Books and References:
Plants of the World, hosted by Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, is an amazing resource. The hardbound book of the same name is a treasure, and I use it extensively in my research for this series.
Colors and brush I use:
I favor a simple primary “triad” plus two extra colors: Manganese Blue (“cyan”), Quinacridone Rose (“magenta”), Aureolin Yellow (“yellow”), and Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue, all Daniel Smith.
I use an Isabey Squirrel Mop Travel Brush.
ROSEANN’S FINISHED ACCORDION PAGE
ATTENDEES’ Pages from the Workshop
Please send your pages and I will upload!
Field Arts Workshop: Around the World in 80 Trees No. 8 (SE Asia)
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Inspired by Jonathan Drori’s wonderful books Around the World in 80 Trees and Around the World Plants, we’re going to travel around the globe by region and sketch interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants.
Part 8: Southeast Asia
What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook or an accordion style booklet (see below), pen and / or pencil for our base drawings, and then watercolor or colored pencil to quickly bring them to life.
TIP: I used a strip of heavy watercolor paper folded into four squares to create an “accordion” booklet to record my trees (8 total, 4 on each side).
Prepwork: have on hand a simple outline map of SE Asia (see resources below) so you can sketch location points for each species.
Length: 2 hours
Downloads and Resources
Locations of the 8 species for this workshop (these are not the ranges, but the site where the specimen we sketch is located).
Books and References:
Plants of the World, hosted by Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, is an amazing resource. The hardbound book of the same name is a treasure, and I use it extensively in my research for this series.
Colors and brush I use:
I favor a simple primary “triad” plus two extra colors: Manganese Blue (“cyan”), Quinacridone Rose (“magenta”), Aureolin Yellow (“yellow”), and Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue, all Daniel Smith.
I use an Isabey Squirrel Mop Travel Brush.
ROSEANN’S FINISHED ACCORDION PAGE
ATTENDEES’ Pages from the Workshop
Please send your pages and I will upload!
Field Arts Workshop: Around the World in 80 Trees No. 7 (Australia)
Inspired by Jonathan Drori’s wonderful books Around the World in 80 Trees and Around the World Plants, we’re going to travel around the globe by region and sketch interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants.
Part 7: Australia
What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook or an accordion style booklet (see below), pen and / or pencil for our base drawings, and then watercolor or colored pencil to quickly bring them to life.
TIP: I used a strip of heavy watercolor paper folded into four squares to create an “accordion” booklet to record my trees (8 total, 4 on each side).
Prepwork: have on hand a simple outline map of Asia (see resources below) so you can sketch location points for each species.
Length: 2 hours
Downloads and Resources
Locations of the 8 species for this workshop (these are not the ranges, but the site where the specimen we sketch is located).
Books and References:
Plants of the World, hosted by Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, is an amazing resource. The hardbound book of the same name is a treasure, and I use it extensively in my research for this series.
Colors and brush I use:
I favor a simple primary “triad” plus two extra colors: Manganese Blue (“cyan”), Quinacridone Rose (“magenta”), Aureolin Yellow (“yellow”), and Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue, all Daniel Smith.
I use an Isabey Squirrel Mop Travel Brush.
ROSEANN’S FINISHED ACCORDION PAGE
ATTENDEES’ Pages from the Workshop
Please send your pages and I will upload!
Field Arts Workshop: Around the World in 80 Trees No. 6 (Asia - Part 2)
Inspired by Jonathan Drori’s wonderful books Around the World in 80 Trees and Around the World Plants, we’re going to travel around the globe by region and sketch interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants.
Part 6: Asia - Part 2
What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook or an accordion style booklet (see below), pen and / or pencil for our base drawings, and then watercolor or colored pencil to quickly bring them to life.
TIP: I used a strip of heavy watercolor paper folded into four squares to create an “accordion” booklet to record my trees (8 total, 4 on each side).
Prepwork: have on hand a simple outline map of Asia (see resources below) so you can sketch location points for each species.
Length: 2 hours
Downloads and Resources
Locations of the 8 species for this workshop (these are not the ranges, but the site where the specimen we sketch is located).
Tip: Print or create an outline of Asia in your journal so you can mark the site locations of our sketched species.
Books and References:
Plants of the World, hosted by Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, is an amazing resource. The hardbound book of the same name is a treasure, and I use it extensively in my research for this series.
Colors and brush I use:
I favor a simple primary “triad” plus two extra colors: Manganese Blue (“cyan”), Quinacridone Rose (“magenta”), Aureolin Yellow (“yellow”), and Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue, all Daniel Smith.
I use an Isabey Squirrel Mop Travel Brush.
ROSEANN’S FINISHED ACCORDION PAGE
ATTENDEES’ Pages from the Workshop
Please send your pages and I will upload!
Field Arts Workshop: Around the World in 80 Trees No. 5 (Asia - Part 1)
Inspired by Jonathan Drori’s wonderful books Around the World in 80 Trees and Around the World Plants, we’re going to travel around the globe by region and sketch interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants.
Part 4: Asia - Part 1!
What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook or an accordion style booklet (see below), pen and / or pencil for our base drawings, and then watercolor or colored pencil to quickly bring them to life.
TIP: I used a strip of heavy watercolor paper folded into four squares to create an “accordion” booklet to record my trees (8 total, 4 on each side).
Prepwork: have on hand a simple outline map of Asia (see resources below) so you can sketch location points for each species.
Length: 2 hours
Downloads and Resources
Locations of the 8 species for this workshop (these are not the ranges, but the site where the specimen we sketch is located).
Tip: Print or create an outline of Asia in your journal so you can mark the site locations of our sketched species.
Books and References:
Plants of the World, hosted by Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, is an amazing resource. The hardbound book of the same name is a treasure, and I. use it extensively in my research for this series.
Colors I use:
I favor a simple primary “triad” plus two extra colors: Manganese Blue (“cyan”), Quinacridone Rose (“magenta”), Aureolin Yellow (“yellow”), and Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue, all Daniel Smith.
ROSEANN’S FINISHED ACCORDION PAGE
ATTENDEES’ Pages from the Workshop
Please send your pages and I will upload!
Field Arts Workshop: Around the World in 80 Trees No. 4 (Europe)
Inspired by Jonathan Drori’s wonderful books Around the World in 80 Trees and Around the World Plants, we’re going to travel around the globe by region and sketch interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants.
Part 4: Europe!
What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook or an accordion style booklet (see below), pen and / or pencil for our base drawings, and then watercolor or colored pencil to quickly bring them to life.
TIP: I used a strip of heavy watercolor paper folded into four squares to create an “accordion” booklet to record my trees (8 total, 4 on each side).
Prepwork: have on hand a simple outline map of Europe (see resources below) so you can sketch location points for each species.
Length: 2 hours
Downloads and Resources
Click to initiate download of a PDF of the workshop presentation (large file) * Please do not circulate this PDF; if you wish to share the workshop, please use the page link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/88kf1zlgmx92iat/Around%20the%20World%20in%2080%20Trees%2008-27-2022.pdf
Locations of the 8 species for this workshop (these are not the ranges, but the site where the specimen we sketch is located).
Tip: Create an outline of Europe in your journal so you can mark the site locations of our sketched species. Credit: WorldMapBlank.com
Books and References:
Plants of the World, hosted by Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, is an amazing resource. The hardbound book of the same name is a treasure, and I. use it extensively in my research for this series.
Colors I use:
I favor a simple primary “triad” plus two extra colors: Manganese Blue (“cyan”), Quinacridone Rose (“magenta”), Aureolin Yellow (“yellow”), and Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue, all Daniel Smith.
ROSEANN’S FINISHED ACCORDION PAGE
ATTENDEES’ Pages from the Workshop
Field Arts Workshop: Around the World in 80 Trees No. 3 (Africa)
Inspired by Jonathan Drori’s wonderful books Around the World in 80 Trees and Around the World Plants, we’re going to travel around the globe by region and sketch interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants.
Part 3: Africa!
What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook or an accordion style booklet (see below), pen and / or pencil for our base drawings, and then watercolor or colored pencil to quickly bring them to life.
TIP: I used a strip of heavy watercolor paper folded into four squares to create an “accordion” booklet to record my trees (8 total, 4 on each side).
Prepwork: have on hand a simple outline map of Africa (see resources below) so you can sketch location points for each species.
Length: 2 hours
Downloads and Resources
Click to initiate download of a PDF of the workshop presentation (large file) * Please do not circulate this PDF; if you wish to share the workshop, please use the page link:
Locations of the 8 species for this workshop (these are not the ranges, but the site where the specimen we sketch is located).
Tip: Create an outline of North America in your journal so you can mark the site locations of our sketched species. Credit: TimVandevall.com
Books and References:
Plants of the World, hosted by Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, is an amazing resource. The hardbound book of the same name is a treasure, and I. use it extensively in my research for this series.
Colors I use:
I favor a simple primary “triad” plus two extra colors: Manganese Blue (“cyan”), Quinacridone Rose (“magenta”), Aureolin Yellow (“yellow”), and Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue, all Daniel Smith.
ROSEANN’S FINISHED ACCORDION PAGE
ATTENDEES’ Pages from the Workshop
To come!
Field Arts Workshop: Around the World in 80 Trees No. 2 (S. America)
Inspired by Jonathan Drori’s wonderful books Around the World in 80 Trees and Around the World Plants, we’re going to travel around the globe by region and sketch interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants.
Part 2: South America!
What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook or an accordion style booklet (see below), pen and / or pencil for our base drawings, and then watercolor or colored pencil to quickly bring them to life.
TIP: I used a strip of heavy watercolor paper folded into four squares to create an “accordion” booklet to record my trees (8 total, 4 on each side).
Prepwork: have on hand a simple outline map of South America so you can sketch location points for each species.
Length: 2 hours
Downloads and Resources
Click to initiate download of a PDF of the workshop presentation (large file) * Please do not circulate this PDF; if you wish to share the workshop, please use the page link:
Locations of the 8 species for this workshop (these are not the ranges, but the site where the specimen we sketch is located).
Tip: Create an outline of North America in your journal so you can mark the site locations of our sketched species. Credit: TimVandevall.com
Books and References:
Plants of the World, hosted by Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, is an amazing resource. The hardbound book of the same name is a treasure, and I. use it extensively in my research for this series.
Colors I use:
I favor a simple primary “triad” plus two extra colors: Manganese Blue (“cyan”), Quinacridone Rose (“magenta”), Aureolin Yellow (“yellow”), and Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue, all Daniel Smith.
ROSEANN’S FINISHED ACCORDION PAGE
ATTENDEES’ Pages from the Workshop
To come!
Field Arts Workshop: Around the World in 80 Trees No. 1 (N. America)
Inspired by Jonathan Drori’s wonderful books Around the World in 80 Trees and Around the World Plants, we’re going to travel around the globe by region and sketch interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants.
Stop 1: North America!
What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook or an accordion style booklet (see below), pen and / or pencil for our base drawings, and then watercolor or colored pencil to quickly bring them to life.
TIP: I used a strip of heavy watercolor paper folded into four squares to create an “accordion” booklet to record my trees (8 total, 4 on each side).
Prepwork: have on hand a simple outline map of North America (from the Arctic to Panama) so you can sketch location points for each species.
Length: 2 hours
Downloads and Resources
Click to initiate download of a PDF of the workshop presentation (large file) * Please do not circulate this PDF; if you wish to share the workshop, please use the page link:
Locations of the 8 species for this workshop (these are not the ranges, but the site where the specimen we sketch is located).
Tip: Create an outline of North America in your journal so you can mark the site locations of our sketched species. Credit: TimVandevall.com
Books and References:
Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlance
NYTimes article about Diana Beresford-Kroeger, a medical biochemist, botanist, organic chemist, poet, author, and developer of artificial blood. But her main focus for decades now has been to telegraph to the world, in prose that is scientifically exacting yet startlingly affecting, the wondrous capabilities of trees. She is featured in the Balsam Poplar chapter in Rawlance’s book.
Colors I use:
I favor a simple primary “triad” plus two extra colors: Manganese Blue (“cyan”), Quinacridone Rose (“magenta”), Aureolin Yellow (“yellow”), and Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue, all Daniel Smith.
ROSEANN’S FINISHED ACCORDION PAGE
ATTENDEES’ Pages from the Workshop
Field Arts Workshop: Landscapitos! Little drawings, big impact
Adding small landscape drawings and paintings to your journals creates a wonderful sense of place, greatly enhancing your pages. John Muir Laws calls them “landscapitos!” Don’t be intimidated! These are fast, fun, and addictive.
I’ll take you on two or three explorations using my Virtual Field Trip technology; I’ll walk you through how I choose a scene to sketch, how I “edit” down the view so I’m not overwhelmed, and how I quickly map out the drawing using big shapes. Then we’ll add some beautiful watercolor.
Have your journal and pencil or pen with waterproof ink handy, along with your favorite watercolors. Have you seen my new Earth Palette? These are especially fun paints for landscapitos.
Length: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Resources from the Workshop
CHAT transcript — click > HERE <
Information and links from the workshop:
My favorite paints: Minimalist = a true primary triad (cyan, magenta, yellow) plus two wild-card colors for making browns and black. I like Daniel Smith Manganese Blue, Quinacridone Rose, and Aureolin Yellow, plus Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue. Or, love Greenleaf & Blueberry’s Cyan, Magenta and Yellow, and their Red Ochre and Mayan Blue 2. https://www.exploringoverland.com/academy#color
https://www.exploringoverland.com/shop/minimalist-paint-tins-2-sizes-with-or-without-paint-samples
My notebook: Handmade leather, tutorial here: https://www.exploringoverland.com/field-arts-tutorials-list/2020/8/18/adding-pages-to-my-handmade-leather-journal
Grids: https://www.dickblick.com/products/compose-it-grids/
Perspex Palette: https://www.exploringoverland.com/shop/clear-perspex-palette-with-magnet-strip
Aspect Ratios information:
ASPECT RATIO = SHORTER EDGE ÷ LONGER EDGE
3 ÷ 3.75 = 0.8
4 ÷ 5 = 0.8
Click on image at right to enlarge:
White painter’s tape or washi tape:
https://www.dickblick.com/products/blick-artist-tape/
https://www.amazon.com/MT-Solids-Masking-Tape-MT01P208/dp/B00DHZP2FS/
mt Washi tape can be found with a cute little cutter.
Field Trip: Southern Colorado
https://360exploring.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/Mountains-Mesas-2020/output/index.html
Field Trip: Kenai Peninsula, Grewlingk Glacier (we didn’t have time for this one, but if you practice landscapitos here, please credit Kim McNett as photographer)
https://360exploring.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/Alaska/output/index.html
Landscapitos from the Workshop
Practice isolating big shapes — Dragoon Mountains, Southern Arizona, USA
From the Virtual Field Trip “Mountains and Mesas” here: https://360exploring.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/Mountains-Mesas-2020/output/index.html
This is the Dolores River, southern Colorado, USA.
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