This post has inspired me! I have a friend here who hikes the Smokey trails to photograph butterflies and wildflowers, often at the same time since where there's one, there's the other. I've been wanting to play with watercolors and am bored with my regular journals. Sometimes it's all too easy to run out of words! You just pushed me to get a watercolor paper notebook and start painting!
The book has excellent examples, along with watercolor palettes, and tiny little comments (I love tiny comments). I hope you enjoy your nature journaling!
This reminds me of spring biology class in college. Part of my grade came from putting in hours journaling nature from the same exact spot. I picked a rock in the woods near my dorm. My first entries grumbled about all the things I needed to do and here I sat 'watching the grass grow.' But nature did its remarkable job, and that experience is something I've remembered fondly.
Your grandson is fortunate to have an art and words person for his grandmother. You can both look back on those journals to recall sights and sounds and feelings. I think this book helps inspire facets.
This post has inspired me! I have a friend here who hikes the Smokey trails to photograph butterflies and wildflowers, often at the same time since where there's one, there's the other. I've been wanting to play with watercolors and am bored with my regular journals. Sometimes it's all too easy to run out of words! You just pushed me to get a watercolor paper notebook and start painting!
The book has excellent examples, along with watercolor palettes, and tiny little comments (I love tiny comments). I hope you enjoy your nature journaling!
Anything that encourages us (adults and children) to get outside and observe nature is very worthwhile in my book!
I hope your particular way of exploring nature finds its way into a book, David. Searching for treasures.
This reminds me of spring biology class in college. Part of my grade came from putting in hours journaling nature from the same exact spot. I picked a rock in the woods near my dorm. My first entries grumbled about all the things I needed to do and here I sat 'watching the grass grow.' But nature did its remarkable job, and that experience is something I've remembered fondly.
Isn’t that the coolest? Now I realize I can focus on just one aspect and its environs. Nature journaling starts tomorrow.
A perfect summer book! Will check it out and see if Grandson would enjoy it. We have gone out nature journaling often in the spring and summer.
Your grandson is fortunate to have an art and words person for his grandmother. You can both look back on those journals to recall sights and sounds and feelings. I think this book helps inspire facets.