Virtual Field Trip: Lake District National Park

Virtual Field Trip

Jul 9

[Scroll down for resources for the workshop.]

May 24, 2020 — Zoom workshop-demonstration on quickly sketching landscapes in the field, by Roseann Hanson (University of Arizona Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill / ExploringOverland.com Field Arts Institute) and Ryan Petterson (Stanford University School of Earth Energy and Environmental Sciences).

Roseann and Ryan are both field scientists and naturalists, and keep field journals / nature journals with notes and sketches in pen, pencil, and watercolor.

In this workshop, we take you on a virtual field trip to the Lake District in England using a 360-degree-view website, and then each of us demonstrates how we zero 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, and we answer questions as we go.

[Please note: during Ryan's sessions a camera / Zoom malfunction created a less-than-ideal resolution, which we are trying to fix.]

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RESOURCES FOR THE WORKSHOP:

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 and later, #3 and #6.
- 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
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.
John Muir Laws on sketching “landscapitos”— here, and peruse Instagram for great quick-sketches hash tagged #landscapito here.
Screen shots for our sketching demos: