Virtual Field Trip: Lake District National Park
[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.
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:
Instructor and participant sketches from the workshop:
Roseann's palette in a small tin (see here):
Ryan’s palette (in ExpeditionaryArt.com’s mini paint kit):
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Online resources:
John Muir Laws' Nature Journal Club:
facebook.com/groups/naturejournalclub/
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Books:
Nature Journaling for a Wild Life by Roseann Hanson
Available at ExploringOverland.com through our Field Arts Institute:
exploringoverland.com/field-arts-shop
Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling:
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