Journaling With Nature

Danny is an artist, author and co-founder of Sketchbook Skool, an online creative hub filled with courses, workshops and a thriving creative community.  Danny's work involves helping people establish a creative habit and calm their inner critic. Danny is the author of more than a dozen books on art and creativity, including Shut Your Monkey, Art Before Breakfast and The Creative Licence. Listen to hear more about:Sketchbook Skool, what it is and what you will experience through the workshops, courses and SBS membership program, Spark.What Danny means when he refers to ‘the monkey’.How to manage the inner critic and turn down the volume on the voice in your head.Understanding the world around you through art.How art can help get us out of our heads and into the present moment, during difficult times in life.How to free up and let go of fears about art.Finding connection with others across the world, with the help of technology.Find out more about Danny on his website www.dannygregory.com.Danny writes a weekly essays about art and creativity. You can sign up to receive the essays directly to your inbox using this link.You can watch episodes of Draw With Me, live on YouTube, Thursdays at noon (Eastern Time), or watch previously recorded episodes here.Danny has a podcast called Art For All. You can find it by clicking this link, or searching for ‘Art For All’ wherever you find podcasts. You can find the book by Frederik Frank, that Danny referred to, here: The Zen of Seeing.Danny has generously offered listeners of this podcast the chance to try out his Sketchbook Skool membership program Spark for a week, for free! Find out more about Spark using the link: sketchbookskool.com/spark/naturepodcast.You will notice that Spark has three membership levels, Discovery, Breakthrough and Danny’s Circle. The free trial will allow you to access either the Discovery or the Breakthrough level of Spark, for one week. Click the Buy Now button and you will see that you can sign up and access Spark for free.  -----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates as well as the Nature Journaling Inspiration List each month! You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon, Your contribution is deeply appreciated. Thanks for listening!

Roseann is a naturalist, artist, and explorer who has been keeping science-based nature journals for 40 years. She teaches nature writing and nature journaling, both online and in the field, and is the author of the book 'Nature Journaling for a Wild Life'. Roseann is also one of the organisers of the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference.Listen to hear more about:Roseann’s early nature experiences and how they taught her to love nature.The Grinnell Method of keeping field notebooks.What she's referring to when Roseann talks about 'jumping off cliffs'.Roseann’s connection with desert environments of Arizona and deserts around the world.How Roseann overcame a perfectionist tendency, let go of art fears and started ‘drawing to learn instead of learning to draw’.Roseann’s minimalist nature journaling field kit.'Feral watercolour' and how Roseann creates her own watercolour pigments for truly place-based nature journaling.Roseann’s book ‘Nature Journaling For a Wild Life’.Find Roseann online through her website www.exploringoverland.com as well as on Facebook and Instagram.You can purchase Roseann’s book ‘Nature Journaling For A Wild Life’ here.If you would like to be part of Roseann’s class ‘Feral Watercolor: Making paint from your own found pigments’ which is happening on Saturday, April 24, 2021, 9:30 am – 12 pm PST. You can find the link here.To learn more about the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference that Roseann helps organise, follow this link. -----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates as well as the Nature Journaling Inspiration List each month! You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon. Your contribution is deeply appreciated. Thanks for listening!

Laura has a passion for houseplants and has created a small jungle inside her home. She now combines her interest in plants with a love of drawing and painting, a combination which provides a calm sanctuary among the stressors of life. During the interview, Laura opens up about anxiety and depression and how nature and art help her find strength, and care for herself, during stressful times. Listen to hear more about:How and why Laura surrounds herself with houseplants.How nature and art can be a ‘mental shelter’ in times of anxiety.The deep connection that can be developed with plants.How finding time to draw can sometimes be hard when overwhelmed by the needs of those we care for.How Laura gives focused attention to her plants to discover their individual needs.Colour mixing and how achieving a good colour match is part theory and part intuition.How Laura’s life has changed since the pandemic and how she has adapted to these changes. How we can tune into our innate connection with nature.Discover more about Laura through her website as well as on Instagram @myprivategarden_ and Twitter @myprivategarde1.-----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates as well as the Nature Journaling Inspiration List each month! You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon, Your contribution is deeply appreciated. Thanks for listening!

Christiane is an artist, writer and adult educator. She uses a range of artistic forms to explore nature in different ways, finding beauty in simplicity and poetry in the everyday things she experiences in nature. During our conversation, Christiane explains her creative process and the ways that each of these different art forms can be used to capture a different aspect of nature.Listen to hear more about:How Christiane’s family fostered her love and connection with nature in childhood.Simple ways to bring writing into our nature journal.The way nature writing can capture memories.Constructing a haiku poem to capture a moment in nature.The way nature journaling connects with a desire to protect nature.How art is a way to touch people’s feelings and help them become nature stewards.Find Christiane’s art, photography and nature writing on her website www.weismueller-photography.com. Christiane writes a blog about nature journaling which you can read here. You can also see pages from Christiane’s nature journal on her Instagram page @christianeweismueller.nature.Christiane wrote a blog post for International Nature Journaling Week called Nature Journaling as a Source of Creativity. -----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates as well as the Nature Journaling Inspiration List each month! You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon, Your contribution is deeply appreciated. Thanks for listening!www.journalingwithnature.com

Rebecca Roberts is the founder of EnviroVisuals. Her work in the field of graphic recording helps make sustainability information understandable and accessible to everyone. Graphic recording is all about distilling key information from a presentation or event, showing links between various concepts and capturing the essence of all this on paper, using art and language. Rebecca describes her process and much more in this interview.Listen to hear more about:How and when Rebecca’s environmental awareness started. What graphic recording involves and how it is similar to, and different from, sketchnoting.The process of creating a graphic during a conference.Creating a ‘visual library’ that you can use during sketchnoting or graphic recording.How visual communication can facilitate understanding between people, regardless of language barriers or literacy levels.Ways to process environmental grief and anxiety.How we can be a positive influence on those around us by taking small steps towards sustainability each day.How to get started with graphic recording and sketchnoting for yourself.Find Rebecca’s work on her website enviro-visuals.co.uk, as well as on Instagram @envirovisuals and Twitter @envirovisuals. You can purchase Rebecca’s ‘Sustainabili-Tea Towels’ from her Etsy store. -----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates as well as the Nature Journaling Inspiration List each month! You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon, Your contribution is deeply appreciated. Thanks for listening!

Marina Cerra is an engineerby day and botanical artist by night, fitting art and nature connection into spare moments wherever she can find them, among the busyness of family life. Listen to hear more about:How Marina reconnected with nature and art. Reflections on how the simple moments in childhood can become significant in later life.How Marina manages to continue creating art while raising two young children.Adjusting our mindset to understand what is achievable during busy times.Marina’s thoughts on the benefits and drawbacks of art challenges.How paying attention to individual plant species is a form of respect for nature.The idea of a perpetual nature journal and how to create one.Marina’s thoughts on colour and the changing seasons.Find Marina’s work on her website marinacerra.com and Instagram @marina_cerra. -----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates as well as the Nature Journaling Inspiration List each month! You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon, Your contribution is deeply appreciated. Thanks for listening!www.journalingwithnature.com

Isaiah Scott is a nature journaler, birder and wildlife photographer with a passion for nature and a mission to research the historical connections between birds and the people of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor.Listen to hear more about:How Isaiah started birding. Nature and birds of the Lowcountry.Isaiah’s favourite place to go birding and nature journaling.Bird Names for Birds and why Isaiah is working to change honorific bird names.Isaiah’s field kit and favourite nature journaling tools.The Eckelberry Fellowship and how it sparked Isaiah’s inspirational research project.The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor and Isaiah’s research into the birds that interacted with enslaved people in this area.Follow Isaiah on Instagram where you will find his work as a birding guide and wildlife photographer @ikesbirdinghikes and his bird art @therookerycollection. To purchase prints of Isaiah’s art you can visit his online store through the Charleston Art Market.To learn more about the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor please visit gullahgeecheecorridor.org and for information on Gullah Geechee culture, cuisine, art and music, visit www.hiltonheadisland.org/gullah/.To learn more about Bird Names for Birds and why it is important to get rid of honorific bird names, visit birdnamesforbirds.wordpress.com.-----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates each month. You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon. Your contribution is deeply appreciated. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome! I am so happy to be back after taking February off the podcast. While I took a break from releasing episodes, I didn't stop recording them. So, I have many wonderful new interviews to share with you in the coming weeks. This episode is in response to a question from a podcast listener called Dan. Dan asked me if I had any tips to avoid overwhelm when starting out with nature journaling. There are so many resources, blog posts, videos and workshops on nature journaling these days and it is hard to know where to start. I have felt this same overwhelm myself! In answer to Dan's question, I have created a list of '10 Things to Help Avoid Nature Journal Overwhelm'. Here are some resources that I mention during the podcast:The Nature Journal Connection is a weekly video series by John Muir Laws. This series is the most concise and simple introduction to nature journaling that I've seen and I recommend it for kids as well as adults.  If you're feeling  nervous to sketch in your journal, take a look at the For The Reluctant Artist page on the International Nature Journaling Week website.  There are lots of ideas there for calming your inner-critic. If you want to join an online nature journal club, here are a couple that might match your time zone:Monterey Bay Nature Journal Club (Pacific Time)Melbourne Nature Journal Club (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) John Muir Laws has  information to support you if you want to start your own nature journal club. You can find this here.  If you're interested in weekly nature journal prompts you can find them on my blog or on Instagram and Facebook. Sign up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates as well as the Nature Journaling Inspiration List each month! To help make this podcast sustainable you can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon, Your contribution is deeply appreciated. Thanks for listening!www.journalingwithnature.com

Bill is an artist and nature journaler living in Tucson, Arizona. He blends traditional and digital art techniques to create a unique process and style that utilises the best of both forms of art. In this interview Bill speaks in detail about his art practice - the tools, techniques and also the technology that he uses to create his work. Listen to hear more about:How Bill came to nature journaling. How setting a one-hour limitation helps Bill focus on his journal pages and capture the essence of his subject without getting too lost in detail.Toned paper and why Bill loves to use it.The benefits of gouache vs acrylic vs acrylic-gouache.Using warm and cool highlights and shadows to increase realism and three-dimensionality of a piece.The benefits of a limited palette for creating colour harmony.How Bill switches between digital and traditional painting to make the best of each of these tools.Bill’s latest nature journal discoveries. Find out more about Bill on his website billsingleton.com and on Instagram and YouTube.You can learn directly from Bill on SkillShare by following this link.  To find Bill’s blog post for International Nature Journaling Week click here.  Thanks for listening!www.journalingwithnature.com

Kristin Link is a fine artist and science illustrator with a focus on the natural world. Currently living off-grid in Alaska, she has nature journaled in some very remote and beautiful places, including on glaciers, in deserts and even on a scientific research vessel. Kristin’s work reflects her desire to connect with place, wherever she is in the world. Listen to hear more about:Kristin’s early influences and experiences with art and science. The importance of ‘place’ in Kristin’s work.How living off-grid connects her with the land.Her experiences as artist-in-residence at various locations, including on a scientific research vessel.Cyanotype printing, what it is and how Kristin uses it in her work. The spirituality of interacting with nature that is beyond words or explanation. How Kristin celebrates ‘place’ through her school workshops, helping young people discover what is beautiful and unique about their own part of the world.Find out more about Kristin on her website kristinillustration.com and Instagram.Purchase Kristin’s artwork through her Etsy store.You can connect with the Boreal Nature Journal Club here.  The book that the Boreal Nature Journal Club have been working through together is by Roseann Hanson and it is called Nature Journaling for a Wild Life. Thanks for listening!www.journalingwithnature.com