Oleksandr (Alex) Zakletsky, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

My original series Around the World in 80 Trees was inspired by Jonathan Drori’s wonderful books Around the World in 80 Trees and Around the World Plants. We spent a year traveling around the globe by region and sketching interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants.

View all the past 80 Trees and 80 Animals workshops at:

https://www.exploringoverland.com/field-arts-tutorials#virtualfield

Based on my series Around the World in 80 Trees (in which we spent a year traveling around the globe by region and sketching interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants), this is a new series based on animals—we’ll travel the world and learn as much natural history as we can, plus master the art of quickly sketching birds, mammals, monotremes, and more!

No. 3: South America

What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook or an accordion booklet to sketch each animal (see the versions I did for the other sessions, links 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). Hint: for animals go with larger squares, at least 4-5 inches.

When: Saturday, February 24, 2024 at 10:30 am Tucson, Arizona time (use a time converter to make sure you pick the right time for your time zone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html )

HOW: Zoom link. This session is free but for security, registration is required. Sign up >> HERE >> https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpcu6orT8oGNIZum-J8EM3GfyPhUNrdRBv