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first sketch for lesson : Style your journal your way. A sketch to meet my goal.
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I am so looking forward to this class and adding sketches to my vacation journals. I too prefer being outside than cooped up indoors. I am a beginner for sketching and never have worked with watercolors. My mom and aunt were very good/great artists. Somehow I didn’t get under their wing to practice and learn their mediums. I wish I had. I quilt and garden enjoy nature hikes and vacationing. I think this class will help with the art and improve observation and being in the moment skills. As far as journal styles I want to combine the art with notes on my thoughts and allow space for me to record facts that I learned from what ever I am sketching. I plan to include the date and location and like the idea to include the weather of the day. And if possible include both common and scientific name of the drawing. Adding watercolor I hope will bring my things to life. What are my goals? Use the techniques learned for my vacation journals. And all my vacations include nature experiences. I would love to say I would sketch something daily, but I don’t think that is realistic so for now I want to keep up with class lessons and sketch at least one thing with each visit to this site. Do the homework. Last year we were to go to AUS and NZ but COVID hit and that dream ended. So I want to be ready to nature and travel journal should this trip ever come.
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My first read in this lesson was yours about the American robin. It brought back memories of my childhood too in celebrating the start of spring. My family would have a contest for seeing the first few robins in spring. We had a ritual to perform to make our sighting “count”. If we saw a robin we needed to kiss our thumb then take that kissed thumb and press it into the palm of the other hand. Next we took our fist and “stamped” it on the thumb kissed palm. As we did so, who ever completed that routine first was the person who saw that robin. It was lots of fun as a child, and we continued stamping robins for at least a few weeks. this year I did stamp the first robin and I can not wait to share the experience when our baby granddaughter grows up.
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