Seth
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Hello all, I am a teacher learning how to distance teach for a rollout next Monday. I have been taking breaks from he stress with a deep dive into Journaling. I am really enjoying the watercolors and appreciate the instruction in this course.
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The lessons on negative space and proportion helped me a lot in these last two. I did not find any difference between taking a measurement of the proportions of the mushrooms or the mountains. In both situations, it helped get more faithful representations of reality.
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It was great to not worry about the product (vraisemblance) and to focus on the thing itself. I can see how this would connect hand-eye-brain-heart coordination. I also enjoyed the invitation to look for positives. Where did I actually slow down enough to record a line well?
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1.) I really enjoyed this study. These feathers have been on my mantle for six months, but I truly saw them for the first time tonight. I learned that, although they have the same basic pattern elements, there are big differences in coloration, speckling, and contrast.
2.) I would like to try to add more numerical data because I have never thought to do it before. It would make it more scientific. I have only ever noted the presence of birds I hear while journaling so that I can imagine the atmosphere after the fact. It would be interesting to count plants, flowers, insects etc as well.
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I am at a conference in Colorado; it is always weird to go artificially fast (airplane) from the Southern Appalachians to the Rockies. I sat in the Vail Public Library for 30 minutes and watched snow accumulate on trees along a ravine. It was a very enjoyable moment. Changes: how the conifer branches took on the snow (becoming more weighted down, etc); how the snowflakes went from granular and small while I was walking outside to large and fluffy while I was sitting inside observing. I asked myself questions about human impact on the space I was observing. Did this ravine always exist in tis present form, or did the road/town development change its shape/volume of water going through it. There is a footbridge with culverts over the creek. Which plants/animals have thrived from humans and which have not?
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I did this sit spot in my front yard a few days ago. It is a stump from a tree that died and had to be cut down a few years ago. There are some really cool polypores forming on the Northern side of the decaying stump. It was a very calming moment to sit out there and to absorb everything. In notes outside the photo, I also recorded 14 bird species. My wife was working in the garden. I believe making this sketch / doing this sit spot gave me a deeper memory of the moment; it cast a wider net: I noticed shadows and textures of decomposition in the stump that I would not have otherwise noticed.
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This is a start, but it is going to take a lot more practice to use these techniques more intuitively. I spent a lot of energy trying to get my drawing to look like the object--I need to go back and actually pay attention to light and shadow. The squint is a great piece of advice. One challenge I encountered was rendering marks and textures on the surface of the objects and also trying to render depth and shadow. I love seeing how other people approached this assignment below. The ones I prefer are more free and whimsical. I would like to agonize less.
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1.) Wings and beak are difficult. I appreciated having the photo instead of a moving bird! It was difficult to get the proportions and shapes right and then to fit them together into a whole.
2.) I would not have noticed that the Yellow Warbler is actually dusky grey on the back or that the reddish marking extended up the throat. I have not observed either of these marks in the wild; I am usually overwhelmed by their yellowness.
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1.) My friend introduced me to Nature Journaling a few years ago, and I am taking this course to get a deeper understanding of the possibilities. Hopefully the course will encourage me to make Nature Journaling a more regular practice. 2.) All of the journals and the testimonials illustrated the power of this practice. I feel like I should take inspiration from each of them in some way, but the ones with "less accomplished" illustrations spoke to me the most because they showed me that I should engage with the process instead of a polished end result. 3.) This was referenced a bit by the first Journaler: my friend who taught me about Nature Journaling writes questions in red that come up in the field and then researches the answers in books and on the internet. This adds a deep educational element to his practice.
The lessons on negative space and proportion helped me a lot in these last two. I did not find any difference between taking a measurement of the proportions of the mushrooms or the mountains. In both situations, it helped get more faithful representations of reality. 
It was great to not worry about the product (vraisemblance) and to focus on the thing itself. I can see how this would connect hand-eye-brain-heart coordination. I also enjoyed the invitation to look for positives. Where did I actually slow down enough to record a line well? 
1.) I really enjoyed this study. These feathers have been on my mantle for six months, but I truly saw them for the first time tonight. I learned that, although they have the same basic pattern elements, there are big differences in coloration, speckling, and contrast.
2.) I would like to try to add more numerical data because I have never thought to do it before. It would make it more scientific. I have only ever noted the presence of birds I hear while journaling so that I can imagine the atmosphere after the fact. It would be interesting to count plants, flowers, insects etc as well. 
I am at a conference in Colorado; it is always weird to go artificially fast (airplane) from the Southern Appalachians to the Rockies. I sat in the Vail Public Library for 30 minutes and watched snow accumulate on trees along a ravine. It was a very enjoyable moment. Changes: how the conifer branches took on the snow (becoming more weighted down, etc); how the snowflakes went from granular and small while I was walking outside to large and fluffy while I was sitting inside observing. I asked myself questions about human impact on the space I was observing. Did this ravine always exist in tis present form, or did the road/town development change its shape/volume of water going through it. There is a footbridge with culverts over the creek. Which plants/animals have thrived from humans and which have not? 
I did this sit spot in my front yard a few days ago. It is a stump from a tree that died and had to be cut down a few years ago. There are some really cool polypores forming on the Northern side of the decaying stump. It was a very calming moment to sit out there and to absorb everything. In notes outside the photo, I also recorded 14 bird species. My wife was working in the garden. I believe making this sketch / doing this sit spot gave me a deeper memory of the moment; it cast a wider net: I noticed shadows and textures of decomposition in the stump that I would not have otherwise noticed. 
This is a start, but it is going to take a lot more practice to use these techniques more intuitively. I spent a lot of energy trying to get my drawing to look like the object--I need to go back and actually pay attention to light and shadow. The squint is a great piece of advice. One challenge I encountered was rendering marks and textures on the surface of the objects and also trying to render depth and shadow. I love seeing how other people approached this assignment below. The ones I prefer are more free and whimsical. I would like to agonize less. 
1.) Wings and beak are difficult. I appreciated having the photo instead of a moving bird! It was difficult to get the proportions and shapes right and then to fit them together into a whole.
2.) I would not have noticed that the Yellow Warbler is actually dusky grey on the back or that the reddish marking extended up the throat. I have not observed either of these marks in the wild; I am usually overwhelmed by their yellowness. Viewing 9 posts - 1 through 9 (of 9 total)