Bird sketching from life is one of the best skills for new artists to learn. Here’s why! This blog contains affiliate links from which I earn a small commission. The garden birds at Seaton Wetlands, the nature reserve near my house, have been fed by humans so regularly that they have come to expect and […]
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I’m kicking off here for 2024 with the biggest question we can ask ourselves when taking up nature journaling. What is nature journaling? What is a nature journal? These are two very different questions – as the first refers to a process and an activity, whereas the second refers to an object or thing. Answering
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When I started my first nature journal back in 2016, I began with a single sketchbook and I used it both outdoors and inside. Sometimes I glued in paintings. Sometimes I took it outside to sketch and I often had my best work positioned right alongside my experiments. The problem was that as time went
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Anybody who has watched my latest YouTube video will know that I’ve been thinking about learning strategies a lot over the past few weeks. Specifically, I’ve been musing about what exactly it is about the process of nature journaling that has helped me to learn so much more about plants and birds, and applying that to
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On 8th May 2022, I marched with 200 other people through the Duke of Somerset’s estate, along a forbidden path, to protest the lack of a proper “right to roam” in England and Wales. The walk was led by Guy Shrubsole, author of the excellent book “Who Owns England?” The land we walked is a
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I’m a month behind in my blog writing and several pages behind schedule in my nature journal too, it’s May now but here I am still working on April’s pages. Sound familiar? Whether it’s holiday, work, health or just a busy schedule, sometimes we just don’t have time for that daily nature journal practice we
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This month (March 2022) I have been working on a large-scale piece for an exhibition focusing on trees in Sidmouth, a town local to me. Many of you may have seen images of this piece coming together on Instagram. This piece, pictured below, is my first attempt at using nature journaling to inform larger work
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