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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. 1: North America, Part 1, the North
What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook or an accordion style booklet (see 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). For animals I recommend larger squares, at least 5” if you choose an accordion.
Prepwork: Create a map of the world so you can sketch location points for each species (North America, Pacific, Australia Europe).
Length: 2 hours
Downloads and Resources
Colors and brush I use:
I favor a simple primary “triad” plus two extra colors: Manganese Blue (“cyan”), Quinacridone Rose (“magenta”), Aureolin Yellow (“yellow”), and Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue, all Daniel Smith.
I use an Isabey Squirrel Mop Travel Brush.
ROSEANN’S FINISHED PAGES—I didn’t do a world map this time! I will next episode
ATTENDEES’ Pages from the Workshop
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