Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference 2020

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Do you think you can’t draw? Is your perfectionism a problem? Do you want to spend more time actually nature journaling? Do you struggle with self-judgement or compare yourself harshly to all the “better” nature journalers? If any of these sound familiar, you will benefit from this workshop. Over the past several years, Marley has been developing and testing psychological strategies to help you achieve your nature journaling goals, learn faster, and feel better about your awesome self.

SUPPLIES: Journal and pen for taking notes.

https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/wildwonder2020/ba/Mindset%20Class%20Homework.pdf

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Prepare for sketching on your adventures, whether out in your garden or on mountain trails! We'll explore fundamental sketching techniques for creating colorful and expressive journal pages using ink and watercolor. We'll practice gesture, contour, and thumbnail sketches to quickly capture a sense of place and open up creative flow and inquiry. All levels welcome!

SUPPLIES: Journal, pen, colors and brush if you have them.

---Supplies used by Maria:

•  Paper/Sketchbook: I recommend a minimum of 80lb paper for light watercolor/mixed-media. I prefer Moleskine watercolor journals and Stillman and Birn Alpha and Beta softcover sketchbooks. I used an Aquabee Super Deluxe 9” x 9” book in my workshop. 
•  Waterproof Pen: try a waterproof pen such as a Sharpie Fine Pen or Copic Multiliner. You may also enjoy a brush pen or fountain pen. I love the Pentel Brush Pen and Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen which I used in my workshop. Other popular fountain pens for sketching include the Lamy Safari and Sailor Fude 55 pen. You can learn more about a selection of the pens I use on my blog.
•  Watercolors: please feel free to paint with what you have! I prefer Pocket Palettes for their portability and versatile layouts. The Daniel Smith Essential Colors Set is a great starting place for watercolors. This blog post details the colors in my warm and cool Pocket Palettes from my workshop. 
• Brushes: I prefer water brushes and travel brushes for field sketching. I like the oval barrel of Pentel Brushes, they don’t roll away! They are available in a standard and mini size, I typically use the medium tip. I use Rosemary and Co travel brushes and suggest a #8 round (such as the R10 Synthetic or R13 sable blend) as a fabulous brush to start with.
• Extras: Collapsible water cup, paper towel or soft rag to wipe your brushes. I prefer using blue shop towels which can be rinsed and reused.

Discounts
Check out the special Wild Wonder program discounts! I am happy to offer all Wild Wonder participants a 15% discount on Art Toolkit supplies (art-toolkit.com) with the code WILDWONDER.

Links and information from the class:

Just in case you don't have access to Dropbox, here's the link to the Sched page with the PDF links to the handouts (scroll all the way to the bottom) https://wildwonder2020.sched.com/event/eGSk/adventure-sketching

Maria has shared how her studio is organized, including her beautiful brush setup, on her blog: https://expeditionaryart.com/blog/2018/03/studio-update/

Here's a slightly different palette that Maria has available https://expeditionaryart.com/blog/2019/11/expeditionary-art-palette/

If you have enjoyed this session with Maria, you can also see an interview she did with John Muir Laws, available on his blog: https://johnmuirlaws.com/drawing-hummingbirds-and-conversation-with-maria-coryell-martin-video/

Maria's palettes and art toolkit are available on her website, but be sure to check the special discount section on Sched first! https://art-toolkit.com/#toolkits



UPDATE FROM OCT. 8, FROM MARIA:
Hi Everyone,
Thank you to everyone who joined me live yesterday, I loved sketching with all of you! I’ve included a recap below of how to access the reference images and class notes, as well as a list of supplies, including what I painted with during our workshop.

I’d love to keep in touch! If you’re interested in joining me for a workshop, I have a few spots left in both my upcoming Cloudscapes and Atmospheric Landscapes workshops. I also invite you to sign up for my newsletter to be the first to hear about upcooming events, demos, as well as Art Toolkit supplies.

You can see an archive of live demos on my Learn page, including a tour of my studio if you’d like to learn more about my space, and a wonderful conversation and demo I had sketching birds with Jack.

Finally, I’d love to have you join me with Daniel Smith and Jess from Greenleaf and Blueberry for a Wild Wonder Demo this afternoon at 4pm!
Happy sketching! Keep in touch and please let me know if you have any questions.

All my best,

Maria

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We’ll investigate the nature of poetry and the poetry of nature, enriching our journal-keeping practice by thinking like poets. Sarah will take the mystique out of poetry while expanding your appreciation of its power to open the senses and the heart.

SUPPLIES: Journal and pen.

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Prepare to be inspired and challenged in this hands-on workshop that includes lots of quick drawing exercises to level-up your representational drawing skills. We’ll practice both left- and right-brain techniques to hone your observational skills, strengthen your hand-eye coordination, and bust free of creative blocks.

SUPPLIES: Journal and pen.

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Colored pencils are an easy and fun way to start to add color to your nature journal. Learn fundamental layering techniques to help you build rich colors with precision and ease. These techniques will allow you to match the vibant colors and breadth of values that you see in nature.

SUPPLIES: Journal, pen. Make sure your colored pencil kit includes: Black Grape, Greyed Lavender, and White (Prismacolor, available in my store), plus Process Red, True Blue, and Canary Yellow in Prismacolor OR Fuschia, Cadmimum Yellow, and Pthalo Blue in Faber Castell Polychromos.

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Never fear a blank page again with PageBREAKERS: 4 simple ways to quickly start a journal page. Use these rapid sketching tricks to warm up your eyes, get your pen moving, and open your curiosity floodgates. You'll leave with a fun toolkit of tricks to break the empty page.

SUPPLIES: Journal, pen, colors and brush if you have them.

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Do you find yourself struggling to carry a bulging field bag, filled with too many supplies you almost never use? Are you sometimes hamstrung because it takes you so long to set up your sketching gear that you don’t stop and capture small and delightful details? This class will be like a diet for your field sketching kit! Roseann has been keeping nature journals for 40 years, and has refined her gear to a light-and-fast stand-up field sketching kit comprising her easy-to-make (and inexpensive) field journal, a fountain pen, a single brush, and a mini paint kit with cyan, magenta, yellow, burnt sienna, and a dark blue (indanthrone). She’ll share her ideas and get you started with easy color-mixing with just 3-5 colors. Lighten your load, de-clutter your gear, and focus on what you love: observing, sketching, and painting.

SUPPLIES: Journal, pen, brush, and watercolors. For this class I use transparent, mostly cool colors (all Daniel Smith): manganese blue hue or cerulean; quinacridone rose; aureolin or chrome yellow (neutral yellow); burnt sienna; indanthrone blue (dark, warm blue).

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Working on toned paper with colored pencils and other media, Mattias will teach you how to take advantage of the toned paper color to add some diversity to your journal. Mattias will cover the basics of value (shading) with toned paper, and then progress to working from a live subject or photograph of your choosing.

SUPPLIES: Toned paper or toned-paper journal (Strathmore makes a toned tan journal; there are also grey journals from Artenza and others); colored pencils, 12-24 set (John Muir Laws recommends Polychromos Artists’ Color Pencils and sells a set on his website JohnMuirLaws.com ); pencil; black pen; Sakura white gelly roll pen; white gouache and brush. If you want to invest in additional gouache colors, a good mini setof 24 colors by Royal & Langnickel is available on Amazon for less than $20.Journal and pen for taking notes.

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Figure drawing with bugs! Practice your animal drawing skills with live arthropod models from the teaching collection of Dr. Stephanie Dole, a.k.a. Beetlelady. Stephanie will share tips and tricks for drawing insects, spiders, and other terrestrial arthropods. Then we will spend time observing and drawing live models together.

SUPPLIES: Journal, pen, colors and brush if you have them.

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Learn fundamental strategies to help you draw any subject including preliminary gesture sketches, using a Non-photo Blue Pencil, blocking in masses, simplifying values, seeing negative shapes, and using cross contour lines. Building these skills will help you start any drawing and be able to draw what you see.

SUPPLIES: Journal, Non-Photo Blue Pencil, graphite pencil.

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Learn insights into how Mike sketchnotes experiences such as travel, food, football games, and latte art throw-downs. Mike shares his process of sketchnoting experiences as they happen, or after the fact. These principles can be applied to any kind of experience documentation. Be ready to apply these ideas in the session with your own pen and paper.

SUPPLIES: Journal and pen.

EMAIL FROM MIKE, SENT OCT. 9:

Mike Rohde, author of The Sketchnote Handbook here. I’m excited to share Sketchnoting Your Nature Experiences Workshop tomorrow (Saturday) at 10:30am Pacific Time!

I’m going to walk you all through what sketchnotes are, offer tips for sketchnoting if you are new to drawing and will share my approach and principles around capturing experiences as sketchnotes.

Because we are all Zooming into this session, and will not be in person, I’m sharing a website with you tonight. This is the reference for the sketchnote we will be creating together tomorrow. Please load this up in your browser as we start tomorrow’s session — feel free to study this evening if you like!

Mountain Bluebird
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/mountain_bluebird


Mike Rohde

UPDATE FROM MIKE ROHDE OCT.10:
Hey all!

I wanted to share some of the resources shown in the session from popular demand, so here you go!

My books:

The Sketchnote Handbook
https://rohdesign.com/handbook

The Sketchnote Workbook
https://rohdesign.com/workbook

The Sketchnote Ideabook
A heavyweight paper sketchbook designed for sketchnoters
https://sketchnoteideabook.com

My website and social links:

Rohdesign
https://rohdesign.com

Sketchnote Army
https://sketchnotearmy.com
https://sketchnotearmy.com/podcast

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/rohdesign/

Twitter
https://twitter.com/rohdesign/

Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikerohde/

Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rohdesign/

Tools and books from the session:

Sharpie S-Gel Pen
https://www.amazon.com/Sharpie-S-Gel-Medium-Assorted-Colors/dp/B082PMS7TB

Pentel Pocket Brush Pen
https://www.amazon.com/Pentel-Portable-Pocket-Medium-2Refills/dp/B00N9UUWLA

Neuland Markers
These are the color markers I used in the sketchnote, get 15% off with code amb290425
https://neuland.com

Baron Fig Confidant - Pocket Size
https://www.baronfig.com/tools/confidant/classic

Hobonichi Techo
https://www.1101.com/store/techo/en/

Streaming tools from the session:

Camo
How I show my iPhone camera on my Mac
https://reincubate.com/camo/

SHAWE Cell Phone Holder
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07P7Z1FWL

Zoom H1n Microphone
https://www.amazon.com/Zoom-H1n-Handy-Recorder-Model/dp/B078PTM82R

Webcam: aoni A31
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/computers/hands-on-review/hands-on-review-the-aoni-a31-full-hd-webcam

If you have questions, drop me a line!

Mike

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When you are trying to capture a moving animal target on a journal page, it is helpful to understand a bit about how their bodies work and move, and how that compares to the movements of our human bodies. In this session, we'll get familiar with the characteristic postures and poses of mammals and birds as they go about their business and enjoy moments of repose.

SUPPLIES: Journal and pen.

UPDATE FROM MARK, OCT. 8, via email:

Mark Simmons writes:
Hello, everyone!

I hope you’re all enjoying the conference so far. It’s been pretty much non-stop great stuff! Hopefully we’ll make it to the weekend without our heads exploding from too much awesomeness.

As promised, I’ve put together a couple of handouts for our Saturday class, Sketching Animals At Rest & In Motion. I’ve posted these on our class page, over at the main schedule site

[see this page]

If, for some reason, you’re having trouble, I also put these handouts in a Google Drive folder:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ojbcLNDnTc9nKzgJJJrlFdE6GkjQ9I53?usp=sharing

The first handout, wildwonder_animals_handout.pdf, includes a brief introduction, a few tips on quick-sketching animals, and some detailed notes on mammal and bird movement. You don’t need to study the movement notes ahead of time! I just put them in because I’ll reference these notes in my presentation without discussing them in detail, and I thought that might be frustrating if you didn’t have them yet.

The other handout, wildwonder_animals_images.pdf, contains some photos we can use for drawing practice during the class. Most of these are my own pictures, but Ashok Khosla very kindly gave me permission to include some photos of birds in flight from his wonderful website "Seeing Birds" (https://www.seeingbirds.com/). We won’t use all of these during the class, but we should have time for a couple.

Enjoy the conference, and I’ll look forward to drawing with you on Saturday!

UPDATE FROM MARK OCT. 10:

Hello, everyone! Thank you so much for attending today’s Sketching Animals at Rest & in Motion class (or viewing the replay in the future, depending).

As I mentioned, I’ve posted my slideshow presentation (in PDF format) on the Sched site:

https://wildwonder2020.sched.com/event/eGU3/sketching-animals-at-rest-in-motion

And also in this Google Drive folder:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ojbcLNDnTc9nKzgJJJrlFdE6GkjQ9I53?usp=sharing

The slideshow file is "wildwonder_animalmotion_mini.pdf". You’ll also find a handout with some general tips and movement notes, and a set of practice images, including some awesome birds from Ashok Khosla’s "Seeing Birds" website (https://www.seeingbirds.com/).

I packed a lot of material into today’s class, and I salute you for hanging in there! Hopefully these notes and files will help you revisit the parts that went by too quickly. Feel free to quiz me about things by email and in the Facebook Nature Journal Club group, too! Sketching animals is a pretty deep subject, and as you may suspect, it’s one I always enjoy talking about.

All the best, and happy critter-drawing!

--  Mark

P.S. I gather some people were asking about other Mark-related information and resources. I don’t have a lot available online, aside from a couple of recordings of past Nature Journal Club workshops, and my website (http://www.ultimatemark.com/) and social media presence have been a little neglected. If I’m doing something exciting, I’ll probably mention it on Facebook and possibly on my Twitter account (@toysdream). Thank you!

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Join us and learn how to upgrade your curiosity, geek out with scientific wonder, build an inquiry toolkit, and find delight in the littlest things. Learn how to think like a naturalist with wonder, awe, and evidence. Discover how to ask more and richer questions, how to follow those questions into a place of deeper curiosity and discovery, and how to propose answers from your own observations, all while having fun!

SUPPLIES: An open mind, journal, and a pencil

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How to capture the spirit of those old souls? Learn various techniques for sketching and painting the gestures and energy of specific trees in your journal through hands-on exercises that help simplify them while maintaining their individual characteristics.

SUPPLIES: Journal, pen, colors and brush if you have them.

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NOTE: THIS RECORDING WAS UPDATED ON NOVEMBER 17, 2020. We re-filmed this course to improve clarity. There are also new free PDF downloads. 

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Join professional artist and calligrapher J.P. Panter for an introduction to page layouts using graphic design theory. She will share hierarchy tips and tricks that will help you form simple underlying structures and create uniformity in your journal.

SUPPLIES: Journal and pen.

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NEW, added Nov. 17, 2020 – JP's Favorite Supplies List:

Pencil & eraser
JP uses a variety of Mechanical pencils her favorites are;

Mitsubishi Uni “lead holder” for 130mm leads
https://www.jetpens.com/Uni-Mitsubishi-Lead-Holder-2-mm-HB/pd/1576

Lead refills (2mm, “B” grad)
https://www.jetpens.com/Uni-Mitsubishi-Lead-Holder-Refill-2-mm-HB-Pack-of-6/pd/1580

Mitsubishi Karu Toga Roulette Mechanical Pencil 0.5mm
https://www.jetpens.com/Uni-Kuru-Toga-Roulette-Mechanical-Pencil-0.5-mm-Silver-Body/pd/6548

Also sold at CW Pencil Enterprise on the East Coast
https://cwpencils.com/collections/mechanical-pencils/products/kuru-toga-roulette-mechanical-pencil-5mm

Tombow “Mono Zero” eraser and refills
https://johnmuirlaws.com/product/mono-zero-eraser-round-fine/ 

Tombow “Mono Zero 2.5mm rectangle eraser”
https://www.jetpens.com/Tombow-Mono-Zero-Eraser-2.5-mm-x-5-mm-Rectangle-Silver-Body/pd/1749

JP’s blue pencil:
Prismacolor “Col-Erase” No. 20044
https://www.jetpens.com/Prismacolor-Col-Erase-Colored-Pencil-Blue-20044/pd/16329

And sometimes she also uses a: Mitsubishi “Vermillion / Prussian Blue” pencil
https://www.jetpens.com/Uni-Mitsubishi-Vermilion-and-Prussian-Blue-Pencil-5-5-Hexagonal-Body/pd/12707

You can find several different of dual red-blue pencils to try out here, CW Pencils
https://cwpencils.com/collections/specialty-pencils

Colored pencils (red & blue, maybe a light gray)
(Prismacolor and or Faber Castel brands)
Scissors
Toned paper
Butcher paper, craft paper, toned tan sketchbook paper
Triangle
45* angle.
Ruler
Long enough to measure out the longest edge of your sketchbook. JP carries in the field a small Westcott brand stainless steel ruler that is 6’ and or 15mm.

An additional excellent tool;
An Alvin Parallel Glider
https://www.amazon.com/Alvin-296-Professional-Parallel-Glider/dp/B000HF04MM

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JP also offers a "mini class" in the form of a 30-page PDF that includes a lot of the information from this class but then expands much more deeply into theories and other visual composition elements and ideas. You can find it here: https//jppanter.selz.com/categories/featured

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In this class, we will look closely at small natural items and enlarge them in our sketchbook to show off all of their intricacies. Rosalie will show you how to get proportions right when you enlarge items on your page, and she’ll share several tips for capturing small details and textures. By taking mundane objects such as a pinecone or an acorn and blowing them up to show their unique patterns and textures, we will discover how nature journaling helps us see everyday things with newfound appreciation. You will be invited to find a few of your own tiny natural objects for class to reference, or you can draw inspiration from the objects that Rosalie will work from in the class.

SUPPLIES: Journal, pen, colors and brush if you have them. Gather a few objects to dive into details such as textures and patterns: an acorn, a pinecone, a nut, a feather. A hand lens will be useful.

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UPDATE SENT BY EMAIL OCT. 11:

Hello everyone!

I had so much fun creating with you today during my Tiny Worlds workshop, and I hope that you did too! I’ve added some exciting resources to the Tiny Worlds class page on Sched and I wanted to make sure that you’re aware of them. They are all available on my class page here.

• I made a handy-dandy PDF handout, "Tiny Worlds Takeaways," that summarizes today’s session and provides some extra information. 
• I uploaded my PowerPoint presentation to Sched and the file name is "Slideshow." 
• I also uploaded an in-depth booklet called "Materials Booklet", which is a compilation of my favorite materials with descriptions and links to each one. 

ALSO! If you’d like to continue to learn with me, here are some options! 

• I have two Skillshare classes that are all about painting from nature.  
• I often host in-person and online live workshops and those are all posted on my website at rosaliehaizlett.com.
• I share free mini tutorials and behind-the-scenes process videos on my Instagram page @rosaliehaizlett. 
• I’m coming out with a nature watercolor how-to book in 2021! Stay tuned! 

Thanks again, and I hope you continue to find beauty and curiosity in the tiniest aspects of nature... no matter where you look! 
~ Rosalie

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Beginning with a brief overview of letters, fonts, and styles, Deb will demonstrate how to create lettering: plain, cursive, and decorative. She will show various ways of adding color, gradations, shadows, and other bells and whistles to enhance your words and letters in your journal. Using page samples from her journals, Deb will problem-solve and demonstrate how to add text and lettering to a "finished" page. Questions and requested demonstrations are welcome!

SUPPLIES: Journal, pen, colors and brush if you have them.

UPDATE FROM DEB SENT OCT. 10 BY EMAIL:
So thrilled that you are participating in this awesome conference. It’s been amazing so far and I’m sure there are more great experiences yet to come.
I just want to give you a heads up about some handouts that I’ve posted, should you want to download them. You do not NEED them for the class, but you might like to have hard copies in hand. There are some font samples and a copy of graph paper that I will be using in my demonstration. 
The writing tools I’ll be using are:
no-photo blue pencil;
pigma MICRON PN and 08 pen,
Gelly Roll #10 or #8 white pen,
uni POSCA PC-1M .7mm bullet shaped pens (various colors,)
PrismaColor pencils (colors on hand,)
chisel tip pens (ie: highlighters, sharpies,)
Absolutely none of these tools are necessary for you to have, this is just informational because I’ve noticed people ask a lot about tools used. :)
look forward to seeing you all on Sunday…