Shoshana

I live on one of the Southern Gulf Islands and with my job and house and garden and sailboat, I feel like a rarely have time to do anything let alone anything artistic. Except that I need to journal every day just to stay in touch with me. I always feel the need to express the beauty around me. On our last trip, this one to the interior of BC, I bought a book called Nature sketch and started sketching out of it because i have always wanted to be able to record the beauty of our travels somehow. So I really want to learn to sketch, draw and paint! I liked how the author of this book learned about what she sketched and wrote it down so I could learn it too. My friends who are biologists tell me stuff all the time which I promptly forget. I know I will remember it better if I sketch the details of what they are talking about. It also feels when I do like Nature is not separate from me, and I am more a part of it. Also, in my profession I use lots of plants and flowers. I keep a blog just for fun (nothing to do with business!) and would love to illustrate it because it feels so personal and is a way of putting more of myself into it. As you can tell, I am a complete beginner. But as a child I used watercolours to show all kind of animals and nature living their lives in an interwoven way. I would like to do the same thing again with this course. Thank you!