Fee for students: $110 + Eventbrite fees
Online Workshop Hosted on Zoom
Instructor: Roseann Hanson
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Times are all Arizona time zone:
Friday:
5:30 pm - 7 pm — Introduction / Zoom session
Saturday:
9 am - 11 am — live instruction / demos on Zoom
11 – 1 pm — students leave and go out and work on an assignment in their yard or nearby home. [Lunch during this time as well]
1 – 3:00 pm — return to Zoom discussions, sharing pages
Sunday:
1 pm - 3 pm — Zoom instruction and sharing
One week later, Saturday — optional check-in
Join me for an online live and interactive introduction to nature journaling, hosted by the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill.
Neither science education nor art training is needed—you will develop the skills of a naturalist and a field sketch-artist along the way.
“Your observations, questions, and reflections will enrich your experiences and develop gratitude, reverence, and the skills of a naturalist . . . If you train your mind to see deeply and with intentional curiosity . . . the world will open before you.” - John Muir Laws, artist, naturalist, and author
In this online class we will learn how to practice “intentional curiosity” as the core of nature journaling: to ask questions, to dig deeper, to focus our minds both intently and intentionally.
Instructor Roseann Hanson, who has been keeping a nature journal for more than 30 years, will be your guide on the journey to becoming a naturalist, nature journalist, and artist.
The class will include:
The nuts-and-bolts of journal-keeping (paper and ink types, archival systems, how to make entries that you can refer to later, laying out pages, prompts to jump-start observations, and tips on researching science questions sparked by your observations).
Easy tips that enable anyone to get started sketching and painting.
Tricks to free you from your inner critic and start sketching and painting. Art in a nature journal is not only lovely to see, but an important component of your skillset because the very act of drawing and painting something from life involves incredibly intense observation. Your brain is wholly occupied by only that thing you are observing and drawing—it is a kind of meditation that results in new insights, deeper understanding, and even reverence and gratitude.
For details, pricing, and registration link, please visit the Tumamoc website: https://tumamoc.arizona.edu/workshop-–-nature-journaling