A new season of nature journalling starts this December
Do you love nature?
Do you want to record your love for nature in an illustrated journal?
This workshop will help you to express your artistic skills and provide you with the tools to begin your nature journal journey.
Workshop sketches from one of the attendees.
Location: Forest Hall Library
Contact: North Shields Community Hub and Library, Northumberland Square, North Shields, NE30 1QU
I will take you through the process I follow for creating my journals which are really an expression of the joy I feel when out and about in the woods or the river. I will be using my own journals of nature captured over the last 5 years and show how you can create a body of work by simply recording in your own way the things you see every day.
I now look back on my earlier journals and can not only see how my artistic style has evolved and changed but more importantly I can look up the dates when I first saw sand martins arrive for the summer, or when the last swift left, or when the first chiff chaff … well chiff chaffed!
A female hen harrier creating drama.
And it is so easy - no rules - no great artistic skill required - just observation and a daily habit of drawing. I will show you the materials I use and the techniques I employ. Weather permitting, we can spend some time outdoors looking at the nature around us and we can then come back indoors and draw our observations.
I will provide a small kit of materials which will include: 2 fineliners ~ My Shortcut to Nature Journalling guide ~ A blank concertina nature journal , all of which are yours to keep.
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