Scribbling Trees: Add trees to your nature journal with ease and less stress so that you have more time for wonder!
Release the inner critic and nature journal trees and shrubs more easily.
Nature Journaling is about observing nature, getting curious, and recording your 3-D experience on to a 2-D page. There are tips and strategies to do this in the field that will bring ease and joy to your journaling.
Melinda will walk you through various ways to loosen your hand and your inner critic- so that you can sketch trees with more ease.
Focus on simplified sketches to capture the feeling of the trees, with other techniques to show structure and details without needing high-level artistic skills!
She will guide you on how to more closely observe the diversity around you, and how to record them more easily in your nature journal page.
In this session, we'll be focusing on HOW to observe nature, pay attention to the details, deepen curiosity and recording what you experience in nature. We'll use simple sketches, words, and numbers.
You don't need to know botany in order to notice, observe and wonder about plants.
Instead of making art or a botanical illustration we be using drawing as a tool to see the flowers more closely, tapping into our curiosity and sense of wonder.
Practice simple ways to add trees to your nature journal.
- You will see various examples of ways to incorporate easy trees
- How to shift your focus to quiet the inner critic
- one-minute scribble tree thumbnail sketch practice
- mark-making for trees
- Adding loose color to match the loose sketch
Participant appreciations
"The scribbles helped me notice more shapes in nature"
"The mark-making practice relaxed me. I really enjoyed it. I can see the difference in my drawings now!"
"now when I walk, I notice and slow down in a way I never have before."
"Since I began nature journaling, I slow down and I'm more aware of things, and I started to see shadows of the trees!"
"[countour drawing practice] gets you over that fear of the blank page and allows you to just get started. [This way of journaling] solves a lot of issues with the time to make a drawing on site." Deb, participant
"[Blind contours] allow me to be unattached to the outcome!" Christina, participant
"So helpful: the zoom in and zoom out; organization of sections so my page isn't filled with massive notes and bullets, but instead quick useful organization, love the usage of arrows and microscopic zooming." Cindy F.
"Thank you Melinda for an awesome session." Debbie W.
"Its very refreshing- it doesn't matter how long you've been doing this (nature journaling) or just started. It's refreshing and to be in the community is really, really helpful." Katherine H.
