Journaling With Nature

Jane is recognised as one of the art world's foremost authorities on colour and colour mixing. She teaches workshops on watercolour technique and has collaborated with Daniel Smith Artists’ Materials to create the Ultimate Mixing Palette. She even has a colour named after her - Jane's Grey!Listen to hear more about:How to understand pigment characteristics and use them to your benefit in a painting.Pigment numbers and what they mean.Why watercolour is Jane’s favourite medium.Jane’s favourite colours for painting skies.How to customise your colour choices to reflect the colour palette in your particular part of the world. Working with triads to achieve colour harmony. The power of phthalo green as a mixing colour and what it can do.Jane’s thoughts on primary colours.Colour families and their characteristics. Insights from Jane’s course Mastering Watercolour.The Daniel Smith colour named after Jane.Jane’s project to swatch every professional colour in the world.Jane’s website (www.janeblundellart.com) and her blog (janeblundellart.blogspot.com) are invaluable resources for anyone who is interested in learning more about colour. Learn more about Jane’s collaboration with Daniel Smith Artist' Materials to create the Ultimate Mixing Set. To accompany her palette, Jane has created a book called The Ultimate Mixing Palette: A world of colours. You can order the book as print-on-demand from Blurb.com.To take Jane’s Mastering Watercolours course, click here.Jane mentioned the book Nature’s Palette: A colour reference system for the natural world by Baty Patrick. Glossary of watercolour terms:Staining – Colours that absorb into the paper and are difficult to lift off once they are laid down. Non-staining – Colours that can easily be lifted off (with a clean brush or paper towel) after they have been laid down.Granulating – A textured effect that happens when certain coarse pigments settle into the grain of the watercolour paper.Non-granulating – Colours that have fine pigments and leave a smooth, untextured finish on the paper. Opaque – Watercolours that will cover a black line when used thickly.Transparent – Watercolours that will allow other colours to show through.Fugitive – Colours that fade or change over time. Pigment number – a number on the back of a watercolour tube which identifies the pigments used to create that colour. You can have single pigment colours or multiple pigment paints where several pigments are used to create the colour. -----------------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!

Ayoka is a visual trainer and information illustrator. She uses the tools and techniques of sketchnoting to simplify and communicate information. Combining sketchnoting with her gratitude practice, Ayoka has invented a new form of creative expression - GratiDoodling!Listen to hear more about:Ayoka’s early nature experiences, tagging along  in the field with her zoologist parents. The amazing “coincidence” that led Ayoka to find sketchnoting.What is meant by a visual vocabulary.How Ayoka started turning her hobby into a career.The power of using sketchnoting in speech therapy.Why combining words and pictures together deepens communication and understanding. How choosing simple materials can free you of art anxiety.The similarities and differences between sketchnoting and nature journaling and how they can be combined.Ayoka’s concept of GratiDoodles and her new Skillshare classYou can learn more about Ayoka on her website: https://sagsvisuell.deTake Ayoka’s Skillshare class using this link: Let’s GratitDoodle! A Joyful Approach to Building a Creative Practice-----------------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! 

Kelly is a creative nature connection guide. Her work involves giving children and adults a variety of opportunities to connect with nature through creativity. Kelly has written many books on nature and art including her most recent book Draw Yourself Back to Nature.Listen to hear more about:The influences in Kelly’s young life that shaped who she is today.The importance of independent outdoor play.How Kelly came to Montessori teaching and started Wings, Worms and Wonder.The ways Kelly helps different age groups connect with nature.Why art is so useful for creating connections with nature and with each other. How giving children opportunities to practice risk-benefit analysis (inherent in nature play) gives them tools and strategies that they can use in adolescence to make safer decisions. How we are connected in a global network.How sharing nature journaling can help us appreciate nature in other places.How to tune into ‘nature’s whispers’.Sign up to receive Kelly’s Wonder Wednesdays newsletters via her website: https://wingswormsandwonder.comLearn all about Kelly’s books and other offerings here: https://wingswormsandwonder.com/category/books/Follow Kelly on Instagram @wingswormsandwonder.To read the blog post that Kelly wrote for International Nature Journaling Week click here: https://www.naturejournalingweek.com/blogs/sparking-wonder-and-connection-----------------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!

Billie Jo is an outdoor educator with the Peel District School Board. Before the pandemic, Billie Jo was teaching in person at local field centres. Now she is bringing nature journaling to children of all age groups, inventing creative ways to connect students with nature through the virtual classroom.Listen to hear more about:Billie Jo’s early nature experiences.The winding road to how Billie Jo become an outdoor educator.Billie Jo’s work with the Peel District School Board, what her days looked like, pre-covid, running field centre trips with schools.The joys and challenges of creatively engaging virtual classes during covid times.How Billie Jo came to nature journaling.The Nature Journaling Educators Forum and the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Teacher’s Conference.Being a nature journaling beginner and learning along with the students.The flexibility of nature journaling to meet students wherever they are.Tips on teaching nature journaling when you’re a beginner yourself.The two triads of nature journaling: Words, pictures & numbers; I notice…I wonder…It reminds me of… To  explore all the online resources Billie Jo and the Peel District School Board have been creating, visit their website: https://sites.google.com/view/pdsblearningnaturally.If you are interested in joining John Muir Laws and the community for the Nature Journal Educator's Forum, you can find the details on the community calendar on Jack's website here: https://johnmuirlaws.com/events/category/jml/Find Billie Jo on instagram here: @billiejooutdoors.-----------------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!

Sabrina is an interpreter, educator, and makeup enthusiast. She uses makeup to explore the natural world, capturing the essence of plants and animals in her choice of colour, shape and detail.Listen to hear more about:How Sabrina came to environmental education and interpretation.The power of interpretation to bring environmental issues alive by relating them to people’s everyday lives.Sabrina’s love of makeup and how she started using makeup to capture and communicate about the natural world.Sabrina’s process for creating a nature inspired makeup look, using colour, shape and fine details.How Sabrina chooses her subjects for makeup looks.Challenging the stereotypes of who can spend time in nature!To see Sabrina’s incredible, nature inspired makeup looks, visit her Instagram page @a.stroke.of.nature.-----------------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!

Sarah is an artist from Wales who creates artwork celebrating ecology and connection. She shares stories of landscape, history, folklore and family. Sarah knows the value of being in quiet conversation with the natural world.Listen to hear more about:Sarah’s childhood growing up in a remote part of Wales.Specialising in printmaking at art school.The ability of words to connect us with history, landscape and culture.How nature has helped Sarah through difficult times in life.The connection that is made when we take the time to draw something in nature.The importance of gardening, growing and sharing food.Sarah’s flower farming project and how the gift of nature can be a way of connecting with loved ones during this time of social distancing. You can find Sarah’s artwork and photographs on Instagram @sarah_byfield. She is also in launching a website soon and you can sign up to her newsletter at www.sarahbyfield.com.  Sarah talked about The Lost Words. You can learn more about that project at www.thelostwords.org. ----------------- 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!

Nature journaling is a deeply rewarding experience and can be adapted to suit each child's age and interest. If you would like to learn ways that you can nature journal with the children in your life, this episode is for you. In today's solo show, I talk about how nature journaling with children looks different for different age groups. We will go into activities and techniques that can be used at each stage. Listen to hear more about:Simple things you can do to make nature journaling trips more successful with children of any age. Nature journaling with children in the early years (ages 0 - 4).Nature journaling with children in the primary years (ages 5 - 12).Nature journaling with children in the teenage years (ages 13 - 18).Books and resources that will help you teach nature journaling to children. To read the blog post associated with this episode, follow this link: https://www.journalingwithnature.com/blog/journaling-at-every-age.To buy a copy of How to Teach Nature Journaling by John Muir Laws and Emilie Lygren, visit www.johnmuirlaws.com/product/how-to-teach-nature-journaling/. -----------------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!

Tim is an artist from Alabama who has a strong connection with the history and stories held within the landscape around him. Through art, Tim pays respect to the landscape and the man-made structures within it, honouring the past and preserving this on canvas for the future.Tim gives workshops on art and nature journaling and brings warmth and humour to his classes, encouraging and supporting his students through every step in the creative process.  Listen to hear more about:Tim’s beginnings as an artist and his early artistic influences.The Joe Farm and their bird and nature tours.Tim’s favourite subjects to paint and his advice for finding your own creative voice.How art can honour history.How Tim uses different media in his art. Colour and colour mixing.  Find Tim online at timothymjoe.com, as well as on Instagram and Facebook. Visit the website of The Joe Farm, where the family does bird and nature tours, sharing the wildlife of their 200 acre property. Listen out for part two of this conversation with Tim! -----------------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!

Paula is an Australian ecologist, artist, author and educator. Her work brings together her background in science and her love of art, connecting people with place, through nature journaling. For Paula, nature journaling encompasses the whole spectrum of experience - body, mind and heart.Listen to hear more about:How Paula’s studies in zoology and ecology laid the foundation for nature journaling.How Paula transitioned from her office job into her career as a nature journal teacher.Paula’s books on the subject of nature journaling.How she connects people with place through her workshops.The importance of highlighting our emotional response to nature.How drawing directly with a pen can enhance our ability to focus on the moment and let go of art fears. Paula’s thoughts on the link between nature journaling and stewardship.Find Paula on her website www.paperbarkwriter.com, as well as on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. You can purchase Paula’s books, Make a Date With Nature and Take This Book for a Walk, as well as many other products, in her online shop. If you would like to join the Facebook group Paula started visit: Nature Journaling Australia.-----------------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!  

Lara is a botanical artist and illustrator from Virginia. Through her work as chief illustrator for the Flora of Virginia Project, and her perpetual nature journal, which she has been keeping for two decades, Lara has developed a deep connection with the native and naturalised plants of her home state.Listen to hear more about:Lara’s botanical illustration work through the Flora of Virginia Project.The concept of the perpetual nature journal and how it began.Ways for beginners to overcome fear of the blank page.Lara’s attraction to the ‘story’ behind a plant and the change and decay that happens as plants age. Lara’s favourite colours and how she uses colour in her perpetual journal.How to listen to nature and be in dialogue with the natural world while you are journaling. How keeping a perpetual nature journal can become a life-long project connecting you with your nearby nature.Find Lara on her website, www.laracallgastinger.com, as well as on Instagram @laragastinger.A wonderful way to continue to learn from Lara and support her work, is through Patreon. You can find Lara on patreon here: www.patreon.com/laragastinger.If you keep a perpetual nature journal, or would like to see other amazing perpetual journals, use the hashtag #lgperpetualjournal on Instagram. -----------------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!