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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:

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Instructor and participant sketches from the workshop:

Roseann's palette in a small tin (see here):

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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:

johnmuirlaws.com

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Follow us on IG:

@roseannhanson @desert.laboratory @ry_pett @stanfordearth

Facebook/roseannhansonexplore

#fieldarts #sketching #naturejournal #watercolor @swarovskioptik_nature #swarovskioptik_nature


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Exploring New Views – with a Virtual Field Trip to Sabino Canyon

Whether you’re an old hand or a beginner at nature journaling and field sketching, learning to visualize subjects in new ways is really helpful for breaking out of ruts—plus it’s just fun. In this online workshop, we explore three unique views: side-view; top-view; and, my current favorite, zoom in / zoom out. [For those of you who took the workshop, to jump to the section where I finished the pages with watercolor and more ink line work, go to the 1:00:00 time frame in the video.]

Some tips and resources mentioned in the workshop:

Technology-assisted views:

How to use the magnifier function on your iPhone or Android

earth.google.com/web/

Metadata—what to include and where to find the information: on my blog

Other tutorials on visualizing landscapes in different ways: on my blog

Below are the finished pages from the workshop, demonstrating a “3D” view, a zoom-out (world) view, a cutaway view, and a zoom-in view.

I darkened the New Moon a bit more, and added more information about axial tilt during the solstice. In the 3D landscape I enhanced the ink line work a little bit, and put a blue wash (indanthrone) over the far ridge to help push it back visually.

I darkened the New Moon a bit more, and added more information about axial tilt during the solstice. In the 3D landscape I enhanced the ink line work a little bit, and put a blue wash (indanthrone) over the far ridge to help push it back visually.

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In the cutaway view, I used pen line work to outline shrubs and enhance the grass and roots. I also added shading to the snail shell, and more written information.



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International Journaling Week - Landscapes

This video is for Day 5 of International Nature Journaling Week and officially debuted June 5, 2020 at 8 am Australia Central time — to help you prepare, here are some resources and tips:

  • Have your journal and a pen or pencil, and maybe some watercolors, ready to go. See below for what my color palette is for my Minimalist Paint Kit.

  • Before starting, do some warm-up exercises—draw 20 straight lines, 10 circles, a bunch of wavy lines. Get your hand-eye-coordination going!

  • We’re heading on a virtual field trip to Cochise Stronghold West in the Dragoon Mountains of Southern Arizona. Here’s some background on this interesting place (this is from a climbing website, but it has good information and photos): https://www.mountainproject.com/area/107476315/west-stronghold

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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:

johnmuirlaws.com

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Follow us on IG:

@roseannhanson @desert.laboratory @ry_pett @stanfordearth

Facebook/roseannhansonexplore



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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:

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Roseann's Handouts:

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

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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-intro

Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling:

johnmuirlaws.com

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Follow us on IG:

@roseannhanson @desert.laboratory @ry_pett @stanfordearth

Facebook/roseannhansonexplore

#fieldarts #sketching #naturejournal #watercolor @swarovskioptik_nature #swarovskioptik_nature



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Nature Journal Page Flow

Just starting out nature journaling? Here is a short tutorial on how I begin a nature journal page using metadata (the “data that goes with data” to give it relevance by grounding it in time / place / weather) and then use a prose entry to get into the “flow” before adding a quick sketch.

Here’s an example of a couple of pages from a day in the Okavango Delta, in Botswana. You can see my grid, the way I do the weather and location and moon / sun, then start out with a narrative prose to get warmed up. I add question marks, circled, f…

Here’s an example of a couple of pages from a day in the Okavango Delta, in Botswana. You can see my grid, the way I do the weather and location and moon / sun, then start out with a narrative prose to get warmed up. I add question marks, circled, for things I want to look up later or research more thoroughly (like why do zebras flap their lips!?). The sketching need not be “perfect”—notice I used boxy stick-like figures to approximate the impala’s gait (I call this “drawing like a paleo-journaler” in my book). Keeping lists for nature data is also important, so I almost always do a bird or “wildlife” list on one side and add to it through the day. Drawing boxes is also a great way to add interest and break up prose on a page. You don’t even have to fill them first—just draw one, and write around it, wait til something sparks your interest.



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Minimalist Watercolor for Nature Journaling

If you are new to watercoloring in your nature journal or field notes—or to using a waterbrush instead of a traditional brush—here is a short tutorial on using a minimalist approach, using just five colors (a cyan-magenta-yellow triad + burnt sienna and a dark blue) from my Minimalist Paint Kit. My workbook, Nature Journaling for a Wild Life, includes a section on how to start using simple colors and which ones are easiest to use and why. I use transparent, non-staining ("liftable") colors from Daniel Smith: Cerulean or Manganese Blue Hue (="cyan"), Quinacridone Rose (="magenta”), and Aureolin (="yellow”) plus Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue.

Below is a link for a downloadable PDF of my Minimalist Watercolor Worksheets.

Triad + 2 color Minimalist Watercolor Technique – Printable color mixing practice sheets

Click HERE to download a PDF. Tip: if you have 8 1/2 x 11 watercolor paper that is 90-lb or lighter, you can print on a laser printer (not an inkjet, which will smear).

Fellow teachers: If you use my PDF in a class, please make sure to include the attribution for my work; I created these resources for my book and for my classes, and I appreciate the attribution!



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