Keeping a Nature Journal

[StinkyAcres]

I've done a few different types. I did a garden and backyard journal (plants and wildlife) and a couple birding journals.

 

[Karasu]

Send it to me and I'll frame it.

It's yours if you want it. When I'm home.

 

[Karasu]

I've done a few different types. I did a garden and backyard journal (plants and wildlife) and a couple birding journals.
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Wow, very nice! Your watercolours have an appealing clean look to them.

 

[Aunt Angus]

Yall are *seriously* talented!

I used to have my 11th graders make nature journals during the Transcendentalism unit of American Literature. Some of the were unbelievably good! And some were crap...

 

[StinkyAcres]

Wow, very nice! Your watercolours have an appealing clean look to them.

Thank you! Being mainly an acrylic realism painter, I tend to use watercolors more like acrylics and not use as much water. I have a hard time loosening up and letting the paint do its own thing.

I think I should have used a bigger journal on the first one so I could fit more paintings and drawings. There was too much I wanted to write down!

 

[Karasu]

Thank you! Being mainly an acrylic realism painter, I tend to use watercolors more like acrylics and not use as much water. I have a hard time loosening up and letting the paint do its own thing.

I think I should have used a bigger journal on the first one so I could fit more paintings and drawings. There was too much I wanted to write down!

I have the same problem. After working mainly with graphite pencil for 12 years, loosening up is tough.

 

[Karasu]

All ready to start the sketchbook. I'm currently doing a series of birds in the area, though I'm not much of a birdwatcher so I haven't seen them myself. As I progress I hope to start finding more and more of the material I paint and using live studies.

 

[Kiki]

It's yours if you want it. When I'm home.

 

[Karasu]

 

[Aunt Angus]

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