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Field Arts Workshop: Creative Night Skies (Full Class)

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How do you journal night skies? It's always been a love-hate thing for me—I love tracking the stars and planets and finding constellations, but depicting them in journals can be challenging!

In this free online workshop, I demonstrate four different approaches:

  1. Pre-painted watercolor skies on which you can add sky components live or after a sky-viewing telescope session (a technique inspired by Alaska artist Kristin Link);

  2. Making a cutaway peek-a-boo window showing day-and-night;

  3. Using Sharpies and white, silver, or other metallic pens and pencils; and

  4. Using black paper and white, silver, or other metallic pens, pencils, and paint.



WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

  • Journal with or sheets of watercolor paper;

  • Paint colors: Indigo, Pthalo Blue (Green Shade), Quinacridone Rose or similar, Burnt Sienna (mine are Daniel Smith but any brand will do);

  • Hair dryer;

  • White gel pen (the best is Uniball Signo;

  • White and red colored pencils;

  • For fun if you have them: metallic paints or pens and pencils;

  • Black Sharpie;

  • Black paper.



Here is a link to a static post with photos and more instructions:

https://www.exploringoverland.com/constantapprentice/2023/4/10/journaling-night-skies

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