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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

Click here to view all past 80 Trees workshops!

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/q7debd4oyakxthm/Around%20the%20World%20in%2080%20Trees%2004-09-2022.pdf?dl=0

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

Lindsay S.

Rhonda R.

Judy P.

Valerie B.

Jaci E.

Roberta

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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

Try not to make the color uniform (Roseann's demo)

Focus on big shapes, keep your sketching lively (Roseann's demo)

Use muted colors for farther away, as well as less detail (Roseann's demo)

Tiffany B

Shawn H.

Anne-Marie B.

Try not to make the color uniform (Roseann's demo)

Focus on big shapes, keep your sketching lively (Roseann's demo)

Use muted colors for farther away, as well as less detail (Roseann's demo)

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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Using Simple Shapes and Proportion Tips to Draw Difficult Subjects

An excerpt—in 4X time—showing Roseann Hanson's process for simplifying difficult subjects into shapes and then checking proportions using simple measuring tricks. Full workshop demo is here.

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Quickly Capture (and add color to) Complex Subjects

Zoom workshop-demonstration on field sketching and nature journaling 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.

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RESOURCES FOR THE WORKSHOP:

Ryan's Resources:

Tuolumne Meadows Virtual Tour Online (Ryan worked with site #36 and 47):

vrglaciers.wp.worc.ac.uk/tuolumne/tuolumne.html

Tuolumne Meadows screen shot for Ryan's landscape sketching demo:

dropbox.com/s/z9qjqolk09obgq2/Tuolumne%20Meadows%20demo%20sample.png?dl=0

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Roseann's Handouts:

dropbox.com/s/auslrgm69g6l6cn/MINIMALIST%20PAINTING.png?dl=0

dropbox.com/s/kt63w6gwq3ku06g/KEEP%20IT%20SIMPLE.png?dl=0

dropbox.com/s/3bohojulags4cqv/Workshop%20-%20Online%20-%20May%202020.pdf?dl=0