Lyn
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What fun to spend time with such a beautiful photograph. I don't draw birds enough and always struggle with their shape, but was grateful that I had the time to look and look and look again (including too much erasing). Photos are always an important resource but they are also seductive in the amount of detail they provide. Details that I often miss while outside. I think I need to practice making fast sketches with bird photos that I only see for 30 seconds or at most a minute. Given my bias towards plant, I had lots of fun noticing the lichens on the branch. -
Hi all; 1. I'm Lyn and I started field journalling over 20 years ago as a field botanist. I love the science of field botany but field journaling gave me an excuse to be outside without counting plants. Now I teach nature journaling to university students and I was so intrigued that one could learn about journaling through an online course that I had to sign up. 2. I absolutely adore the idea of a monthly journal especially on one page. Especially as a low-stakes way of carving out time for field journaling. I could see doing this one year and then using the month-pages as the images for a calendar for the next year! 3. I'm hoping that this course will give me the impetus to broaden my repertoire of subjects. I don't draw as many animals as I should and I'm reminded how much practising overall body shapes can help when observing in the moment.
What fun to spend time with such a beautiful photograph. I don't draw birds enough and always struggle with their shape, but was grateful that I had the time to look and look and look again (including too much erasing). Photos are always an important resource but they are also seductive in the amount of detail they provide. Details that I often miss while outside. I think I need to practice making fast sketches with bird photos that I only see for 30 seconds or at most a minute. Given my bias towards plant, I had lots of fun noticing the lichens on the branch. Viewing 2 posts - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)