Introduction to Nature Journaling at the Texas Canyon Nature Preserve, Arizona, at the Amerind Foundation with Instructor Roseann Hanson

• Saturday, April 20, 2024

• 9:00 am – 3:30 pm

• $75 non-members (link below to register)

• $70 Members (please call to register)

• Day long workshop Includes:

• Lunch

• a copy of the workbook, Nature Journaling for a Wild Life-a $35 value, free passes to the Amerind

Keeping a nature journal can both deepen our connections to the natural world and help us learn more about it. Neither science education nor art training is needed—we will develop the skills of a naturalist and a field sketch-artist along the way.

This workshop will introduce the tools and processes of keeping a nature journal with instructor Roseann Hanson, author of Nature Journaling for a Wild Life, Master of Field Arts, and the Southern Arizona Nature Almanac.

We will learn how to practice “intentional curiosity” as the core of nature journaling: to ask questions, to dig deeper into science, to focus our minds both intently and intentionally. The workshop will include:

• The nuts-and-bolts of journal-keeping (paper and ink types, archival systems, how to make entries that you can refer to later, laying out pages, prompts to jump-start observations, and tips on researching science questions sparked by your observations).

• Easy tips that enable anyone to get started sketching and painting. Roseann will help free you from your inner critic and start sketching and painting. Art in a nature journal is not only lovely to see, but an important component of your skillset because the very act of drawing and painting something from life involves incredibly intense observation. Your brain is wholly occupied by only that thing you are observing and drawing—it is a kind of meditation that results in new insights, deeper understanding, and discoveries.

• A short classroom session and, weather permitting, we will spend most of the time exploring the grounds and trails around Amerind and practicing our journaling skills. (Please wear suitable footwear and outdoor clothing.)

• A copy of the workbook, Nature Journaling for a Wild Life, which includes blank journal pages — a $35 value. All you need is a pen or pencil and your curiosity about nature.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

Space is limited, please register early!

Members please call Maggie Ohnesorgen at 520-686-1336 or mohnesorgen@amerind.org to register/reserve your spot.

Non-members may also call or register at Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/amerindnaturejournaling04202024

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About the instructor: Roseann Hanson is a naturalist, artist, and explorer who has been keeping science-based nature and field notes journals for 40 years. She is one of the organizers of the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference, and is the author of the popular books Nature Journaling for a Wild Life, and Master of Field Arts. She studied journalism and ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona, and has worked in the American Southwest, Mexico, and East Africa as a conservationist, naturalist, and writer. She has authored a dozen natural history and outdoor books, including the Southern Arizona Nature Almanac with her husband Jonathan Hanson, and San Pedro River: A Discovery Guide, both of which include her nature journal data and art. She was the coordinator for the trans-disciplinary Art & Science Program at the 115-year-old Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, part of the University of Arizona College of Science. She teaches nature writing, nature journaling, and field notes for biologists. She was named a Fellow of both the Explorers Club in the U.S. and the Royal Geographical Society for her conservation and expedition work. You can find her on social media at https://www.facebook.com/roseannhansonexplore or https://www.instagram.com/roseannhanson and on the Hansons’ website: http://www.exploringoverland.com/fieldarts

Join us in person or online for a panel of environmental scientists, conservationists, explorers, and journalers as they discuss how exploring, studying and drawing what they observe deepens their connections to, and inspires conservation of, the natural world.

A practical field journal and sketching workshop can be booked separately for early afternoon. (Information >>HERE<<)

Panellists: Rob Fraser, Roseann Hanson, Ali Foxon, Alex Boon, and Tony Foster.

Part of the Explore festival. 1 November 2023

6.30pm - 7.45pm. In person: £12, £10 RGS-IBG members. Online: £6, RGS-IBG members £5.

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR

Join me in London for an afternoon and evening of field journaling at the Royal Geographical Society, part of their Explore Festival!

Field notebooks are a time-honored tradition of explorers and naturalists for hundreds of years. Charles Darwin, Lewis and Clark, Mary Anning, and Beatrix Potter all kept careful notes of their observations and journeys.

Keeping a field notebook—also known as a nature journal—can both deepen our connections to the natural world and help us learn more about it. And you don’t have to a trained scientist or artist to keep a journal. This afternoon workshop will start you on the path to developing the skills of a naturalist and a field sketch-artist and a lifelong journey of discovery and exploration.

You will learn the tools and processes of keeping a nature journal with instructor Roseann Hanson, a Fellow of the Society and author of Nature Journaling for a Wild Life and Master of Field Arts. The workshop will focus on the importance of field notes, the cognitive value of visual learning, and the social and ecological value of sharing our discoveries.

The workshop will include:

• The nuts and bolts of journal-keeping (paper and ink types, archival systems, how to make entries that you can refer to later, laying out pages, prompts to jump-start observations, and tips on researching science questions sparked by your observations).

• Easy tips that enable anyone to get started sketching and painting.

• Roseann will help free you from your inner critic and start sketching and painting. Art in a nature journal is not only lovely to see, but an important component of your skillset because the very act of drawing and painting something from life involves incredibly intense observation. Your brain is wholly occupied by only that thing you are observing and drawing—it is a kind of meditation that results in new insights, deeper understanding, and discoveries.

• A short classroom session and, weather permitting, the rest of the session will be held in Hyde Park (please wear suitable footwear and outdoor clothing.)

• A copy of the workbook, Nature Journaling for a Wild Life, which includes blank journal pages, special field tools and a basic field sketching set (pen, pencil, eraser, ruler).

WHEN: 1 November 2023

2.00pm - 5.00pm

WHERE: Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR

COST: . £48 (includes handbook)

After the workshop, join us at the RGS for The Art of Exploration, a panel of environmental scientists, conservationists, explorers, and journalers as they discuss how exploring, studying and drawing what they observe deepens their connections to, and inspires conservation of, the natural world. See details >HERE<.

Let's play in the dirt—and more! Learn to create paint and ink from soil and plants in a 5-hour workshop at The Nature Journaling Centre in beautiful East Devon in the village of Colyton. The centre is housed in Umborne Bridge Studio.

You will learn how to find the right soil and plants, how to easily process them into paints and / or ink, safety tips, and more. Devon is famous for its red soils, and we’ll work from pigments you gather or that we provide from local foraging expeditions we’ll do ahead of time, to ensure we have enough material for everyone.

Instructors: Alex Boon and Roseann Hanson.

WHEN: Saturday, October 28 from 10 am to 4 pm (bring a lunch)

COST:

- £75 including soil and plant materials from which we’ll make paint and ink; equipment for processing; containers so that you can take home sample soil paints and inks from the workshop, plus Master of Field Arts, Roseann Hanson’s field arts guide that includes chapters on making ink from natural materials and painting with soil pigments (as well as chapters on cartography, animal tracking, meteorology, and much more). BONUS: Includes access to a private online community of field arts enthusiasts just like you. On this forum you can share your future experiments, ask questions and receive timely answers from your instructors and other wild color enthusiasts. (Field Arts Community Forum)

Bring a lunch. Tea and water provided.

WHERE: The Nature Journaling Centre at Umborne Bridge Studio, Unit 1 Dolphin St. Colyton EX12 6LU [MAP].

Optional: Join us for an optional pigment collecting expedition on Friday, October 27 at 5PM, leaving from the Hideaway end of Seaton Beach.

Join naturalist, field artist, and explorer Roseann Hanson for a morning introductory talk on how to get started nature journaling and field sketching. Her books, Nature Journaling for a Wild Life, and Master of Field Arts, are unique “workshops in a book” format with easy how-to instructions that progress chapter-by-chapter and include goals and homework assignments to keep you on track. Nature Journaling for a Wild Life (£39.99) includes 60 pages of blank journal pages plus special pull-outs such as bookmarks and an acetate drawing grid.

With this book, you will be “drawing to learn,” not learning to draw, and you’ll discover that anyone can master field sketching and watercolor.

Roseann’s second book, Master of Field Arts (£37.99), is like a master’s degree in becoming a more advanced field sketcher and naturalist, with chapters on cartography, animal tracking, reading the weather, and deep dives into mastering pen and ink, graphite pencils, and natural pigment paints, as well as a bonus chapter on making your own ink and quill pen.

Join us and enter the magical world of nature journaling and field arts.

Books for sale, signed by the author. Outdoor sketching demo if weather permits.

WHEN: Saturday, October 21, 2023

10 am to 11:30 am

WHERE: The Bale House, Hastings Country Park Visitor Centre, Lower Coastguard Ln, Fairlight, Hastings TN35 4AD [MAP]

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, we will work on 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.

WHEN: Saturday, September 9 at 9 am AZ time (use a time converter to make sure you pick the right time for your time zone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html )

COST: Free but registration is required (link below)

HOW: Register now via Zoom at this link >HERE<

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.

Have you been struggling to get started journaling, and prefer a more structured format—but also with flex-times so you can work on learning when it’s right for you, and have a healthy check-in every few weeks? My Journaling Jumpstart class will be perfect for you!

Bonus!: includes workbook and supplies—everything you need to start out (if you already have the workbook and supplies but just need more incentive, there’s an option for just the class, too).

We’ll spend eight weeks getting you going on your journey as a lifelong nature journaler.

Next 8-week class starts: June 25 and will meet for four Sundays (9 am Pacific time on June 25, July 9, July 23; and August 13), with our “graduation” on August 13.

Join me and botanical artist Patricia Larenas in Atherton, California for a daylong immersive workshop on drawing trees for nature journalers and field sketchers.

Our location is a historic estate, Holbrook Palmer Park, now a popular tree-filled community park, between South San Francisco and Palo Alto off El Camino Real. Our host is the Atherton Arts Foundation, which operates an art classroom in one of the historical buildings in the park.

We will begin in the morning learning the key components of drawing trees realistically by their species and character in a field setting. You will learn:

• Not to be intimidated by their complexity;

• To train your eye to study the major branches and the structure of the tree and one really important “rule” that will set you free;

• Important clues on how to capture trunks, branches, and twigs, and how to shade them correctly; and

• Tips on capturing trees and their features quickly in the field.

After these classroom practice sessions, we’ll enjoy lunch (BYO), and then sinceit’s always best to draw trees from life to understand them—photos don’t capture them accurately—we’ll spend the afternoon in the beautiful grounds of the park putting our new skills to use.

Each participant will receive an accordion book handmade by Patricia, which you can use to begin capturing your trees.

Cost: $75 per person, including handmade accordion book & morning tea / coffee; scholarship applications will be accepted. Please email with your request.

Location: Holbrook Palmer Park, Atherton, CA

Time: 9 am to 3 pm Pacific time

What’s Included: Instruction with Roseann and Patricia; handmade accordion book; tea and coffee and snacks mid-morning break.

What to Bring: Your journaling kit; sun hat; lunch in a small container (for the fridge). Optional: portable chair if you have one (the park has some benches and tables, and folding chairs in classroom may be available to move outside).

Inspired by and in collaboration with Journaling with Nature’s Bethan Burton, this is our own informal “Skyscapito Appreciation Society!” A “skyscapito” is a small skyscape we create in our nature journals, similar to the “little landscapes” John Muir Laws loves to create.

Join me (Roseann Hanson, of the Field Arts Institute), Bethan, and Deborah Conn as we host an hour (or a little more, if needed) of sharing our sky passions.

THIS IS NOT A WORKSHOP! It's a casual meetup of like-minded sky aficionados, nature journalers, and field sketchers.

We’re going to double-dip Winter Skies and have fun again practicing the lovely colors and drama.

Here’s our plan: 

Sarah Reid and David Lukas very kindly provided some wonderful dramatic winter sky images. Choose one or more and practice your Skyscapitos!

Find them on our web page and don’t forget to give them credit if you use one of their images: https://www.exploringoverland.com/skyscapito 

Share on Padlet or plan to share live with us.

FREE but registration is required, for security reasons. SIGN UP HERE

WHEN WE MEET: Friday, January 20 at 4 pm Arizona USA time

LENGTH: About an hour

Please use a timezone converter app to make sure you have the right time!

http://www.exploringoverland.com/skyscapito

Inspired by and in collaboration with Journaling with Nature’s Bethan Burton, this is our own informal “Skyscapito Appreciation Society!” A “skyscapito” is a small skyscape we create in our nature journals, similar to the “little landscapes” John Muir Laws loves to create.

Join me (Roseann Hanson, of the Field Arts Institute), Bethan, and Deborah Conn as we host an hour (or a little more, if needed) of sharing our sky passions.

THIS IS NOT A WORKSHOP! It's a casual meetup of like-minded sky aficionados, nature journalers, and field sketchers.

This session let’s celebrate the coming holiday season by creating / sharing winter skyscapitos — you could include snow scenes, decorated pine trees, winter clouds, or even the Aurora!

FREE but registration is required, for security reasons. SIGN UP HERE

WHEN WE MEET: Saturday, December 10 at 1 pm Arizona USA time

LENGTH: About an hour

Please use a timezone converter app to make sure you have the right time!

http://www.exploringoverland.com/skyscapito