In this follow-up to John Muir Laws’s 2021 Wild Wonder workshop about painting shiny insects, let’s look a bit closer and get into texture! Class session from 3 August 2021. Source ..read more

John Muir Laws demonstrates how to draw raccoons and coyotes using the keystone method, as well as comparing and contrasting these critters to see and render each one better. (Class from 10 June 2021) Source ..read more

In this “Ask Jack” session, John Muir Laws goes over various tips and tricks, including how to sight with binoculars, creating a foggy landscape, using a smudging tool, and iridescence. (Class from 18 May 2021) Source ..read more

Miriam Morrill, author of Pyrosketchology: An Illustrated Guide to Observing and Journaling about the Fire Environment, gives an introduction and examples to journaling wind observations for enhancing situational awareness (personal safety planning) and examples for using temperature and humidity metadata for observing the intimate relationships and between weather and phenology (unfolding nature stories). Class session Source ..read more

Let’s look at 3/4 views of animal faces! This is one of the most useful ways to think about drawing animal faces, because you’re more likely to see 3/4 views than any other view! This workshop includes a mini-lesson on heads of herbivores vs. carnivores and primates. (Session from 13 June 2024) Source ..read more

The Nature Journal Educator’s Forum welcomes guests Rachael Robbins and two of her students as we learn about a special project they did with their class: creating a local ecosystem field guide! Rachael Robbins is a fifth grade teacher at Bay View Elementary in Burlington, Washington. She uses nature journaling with her students to connect Source ..read more

With a little help from Vivek Khanzode’s website https://www.birdpixel.com, John Muir Laws explores the different feather groups on a bird’s wing, and then demonstrates how to simplify drawing the wing as a whole. “Show less than you know” – if you know where the different parts are on the wing, then that will show you Source ..read more

The Nature Journal Educator’s Forum shares book titles with each other about nature, nature education, and more! These will be added to various book list resources for other nature journalers. See Wild Wonder’s official book recommendations here: https://www.wildwonder.org/books To see the unofficial Nature Journalers’ Book Share Joy List, please go here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sfKsTOtkpU5lQcSsVyv-EXO4l112jpmuMQmqEVuoyls/edit?usp=sharing Forum session of Source ..read more

This week, our special guest Tara Laidlaw shares with us about the programs she has developed for kids using nature journaling with the Southern Oregon Land Conservancy. Tara shares about her programs, her school visits that help to set the tone for the field, the transformative field trips her students embark on with her, and Source ..read more

These lovely birds can be a challenge to draw. Join me as I draw a Nuttall’s Woodpecker! You asked- let’s do it! (Session on 15 Feb. 2024) Source ..read more