Every order from the Field Arts shop comes with a Metadata Reminder bookmark and a Nature Journaling is My Therapy sticker; if you order a Master of Field Arts, we are now also including the custom Master of Field Arts sticker designed by Akshay Mahajan! But if you want to order extras, we’ve just added them to our shop—printed on demand for us by Printful! $4 each. Show your field arts dedication!
A virtual tour of my England journal pages
Sketching and painting live at Wasdale Head, Lake District, where I hosted my first virtual field trip in 2020! See the workshop HERE!
My husband, Jonathan, and I spent a month in England recently, covering 1500 miles, from the Edgcumbe peninsula near Plymouth to the Lake District, and from Wales to Norwich!
We taught classes and gave presentations at the Armchair Adventure Festival, went birding with a friend in North Devon, explored Hereford and Hay on Wye, and then visited our overlanding publishing partner in Hitchin.
To top it off we also attended the initial print proofs for the European versions of my two books, Nature Journaling for a Wild Life and Master of Field Arts! (Both also available in the USA from my own Shop.)
These two books will soon be available in the UK, Europe and beyond—even Australia—through the highly respected natural history book and supplies retailer NHBS.com.
BONUS ALERT! They are taking pre-order now, and the first 15 customers will get FREE attendance at a 2023 Journaling Jumpstart workshop ($65 value).
Below is a video tour of all my journal pages. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed creating them! [Hint: click the “Full Screen” symbol on the video to open larger; it’s the square at the far right, bottom.]
In Darwin's Footsteps
In Darwin's footsteps: As part of the opening chapter of Master of Field Arts, I include an image of Charles Darwin's journal where he sketched out his origin of species theory . . . Here I sit overlooking Plymouth from the Mt. Edgcumbe estate, where Mr. Darwin explored the coves whilst awaiting the fitment of the Beagle.
In his journal Darwin wrote:
"I walked on the seashore and returned home through a part of Lord Mt. Edgcumbe's park. The day has been very fine and the view of Plymouth was exceedingly striking. The country is so indented with arms of the sea that there is a very new and different scene from every point of view." 26 November, 1831
Something about sketching the very land where Darwin roamed sets the perfect Field Arts theme for the debut of Master of Field Arts in the UK and Europe, even Australia! (See HERE for ordering information and BONUS for the first 15 customers of each book.)
Field Arts Books Now Available in UK, Europe, & Australia!
And here they are—the UK and Europe editions of my books —Nature Journaling for a Wild Life and Master of Field Arts. Swallowtail Print in Norwich has done an absolutely gorgeous job on these, and they are FSC-certified green printing!
In a few weeks, after the final print, cut, and binding, they will be distributed by the highly respected NHBS.com (Natural History Books) in the UK, Europe, and beyond—even Australia!
BONUS: The first fifteen people who purchase the NHBS Nature Journaling for a Wild Life will receive free attendance to a future 8-week live online companion class series that parallels the book’s learning syllabus (a value of $65); and for Master of Field Arts, the first fifteen will receive a 7-week live online companion class in 2023.
NHBS are taking pre-orders now for shipping in November.
Book birth – Master of Field Arts
I am beyond thrilled that my next book, Master of Field Arts is finally finished and I’m expecting copies from the printer around February 9th! PRE-ORDER NOW FOR SPECIAL DISCOUNT AND GIVEAWAYS—save the date for February 19 for a virtual Book Launch Party (details below)!
Master of Field Arts is the next level for nature journalers and field sketchers—a deep-dive into becoming a dedicated master naturalist and field artist. A Master of Field Arts.
Chapters are organized to build your skills and introduce you to new tools and methods, including:
Field Arts Méthode
Tools for Field Arts
Session 1 – Pencil: Humble Sketching Tool
Session 2 – Ink: Elegant Linework
Session 3 – Cartography: Visualize Your World
Session 4 – Vintage Tint: Ochres & Natural Pigments
Session 5 – Weather: Read, Record, & Predict
Session 6 – Animal Sign: Read & Record Clues of Passage
Session 7 – Word Pictures: Natural History Writing
Bonus Workshop: Make Your Own Ink & Dip Pen
Projects, Templates, & Tools
Fieldwork Studies
Removable Charts, Tips, & Reminders
178 pages
Spiral binding to facilitate workshop-style learning.
$35 (see below to secure a $5 off coupon)
also available bundled with Nature Journaling for a Wild Life, Field Journal Sketchbook, Field Arts Discovery Kit, or all of the above! Click the PRE-ORDER NOW button below.
This book is a perfect sequel to Nature Journaling for a Wild Life as you grow in your nature journaling practice, as well as for field researchers and expedition leaders who want to ensure their field notes are meaningful, accessible, and useful for their work.
Join us for a Book Launch Party
Saturday, February 19, 2022
10 am MST
Selected reading and sneek-peeks of the content
Attendees who already have ordered their copy will be eligible for special giveaways during the event—see below! (if you are on our email list you will also get a $5 off code; if you didn’t get it, contact me, or sign up for the email list for instant access (below)!)
Giveaways—book customers will be eligible for free cool kit from the Field Arts shop (Discovery Kits, Mini Plant Presses, mini microscopes, and Field Arts Sketchbooks)!
Special preview of upcoming exciting new projects
Length: 45 minutes (maximum)
Start time: 10 am Mountain time / 9 am Pacific time / GMT - 7
(Having trouble figuring out time zones?Use this calculator: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html)
Format: online via Zoom
Access: Registration not required for this event. Please use this link HERE to join the event!
Email list subscribers and current customers received a $5 off code for pre-orders in the launch party announcement. Not on the list? Sign up now to get your code instantly!
Master of Field Arts
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“Master of Field Arts is a welcome companion to Roseann Hanson’s 2020 book, Nature Journaling for a Wild Life. In this second book in her Wild Life series, Hanson gives us an accessible and practical guide to advanced naturalist and field journaling skills. The lessons provide the structure and details to enable you to think and see like a naturalist, and take your observation and ability to investigate nature mysteries to the next level.
“These methods connect you with old traditions of exploration and promote learning from experience. You will learn fundamental skills for journaling and recording, and ways to make your own art materials, a process that more deeply connects you to place. You will also dive deeply into reading the sky and tracks in the dust. As a bonus, Hanson gives us templates and field tools she uses in her own work. This book will help you take your nature discovery, inquiry, and journaling to mastery.”
– John Muir Laws, The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling (Heyday Books)
Fun New Field Arts Products Released
Just in time for the holidays I’m pleased to offer several fun new field arts tools for your toolkit—I’ve carefully curated the set to enhance your in-the-field discovery process: magnification lenses, measuring tools, a special light, tweezers, and a beautiful plant press. And don’t miss the limited-edition Sky Palette with the perfect colors for capturing skies and clouds.
Mini Plant Press
I’m most excited about the beautiful handmade Mini Plant Press, which is based on one that I bought from Vince Roth in 1985 at the Southwest Research Station, where he was director. My husband, Jonathan, hand-cut the lovely 3x5” birch plywood covers and I sanded and assembled them. They are light (4.5 ounces!) and will be a fun addition to your field kit (they are also come as part of the new Field Arts Discovery Kit). I’ve had my mini press for 36 years and it’s been all over the world with me.
Our Mini Plant Press is lovingly handmade by us just for your field kit.
Mini Plant Press
$18.00
^ Click the image above for more images, details, and to order.
Field Arts Discovery Kit
Field Arts Discovery Kit
from $39.50
The new Field Arts Discovery Kit is really fun as well—a curated collection of fields arts tools that I find indispensable. You can choose between two options, depending on which optics you want (either with a classic triplet pocket loupe at $39, or with a mini-LED-microscope at $46). Each set includes:
Mini plant press (see above)
Stainless steel, bent-nose tweezers for dissecting or picking up small items to study under your optics
2-inch hand lens magnifier
Mini UV light for looking at critters at night—scorpions and other arthropods (and some mammals!) fluoresce under UV light
Clear ruler with metric (15 cm) and English (6 inches) scales
Round protractor by Helix—measure angles and draw 21 different sizes of circles perfectly (see demonstration video on the product page)
9x7” zippered cotton pouch with a clip ring; customize your pouch with fabric paint, ink, or embroidery
Click the image at top for more details, images, and to order, or click here.
Sky Palette
And in very limited quantities I’m offering Sky Palettes, a mini paint kit with six colors for making perfect skies and clouds. Click the image below for more details, images, and to order:
Cloud catcher
Artist and author Eric Sloane (1905–1985) is said to be the finest cloud painter of his generation—his largest cloud painting is a 75-foot-long by 58-foot-tall mural that graces an entire wall of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. In one of his (many) books he mentions building a “cloud catcher box” to better study and paint clouds: a box or frame with a glass bottom that is painted black. Unlike a mirror, this won’t blind you when you try to look into it to see the reflection.
I realized I could try that using my Perspex Palette backed with black paper. Before ordering the black paper, I tested it (left) by holding a black vinyl sheet under the palette and it worked perfectly!
So now, for anyone ordering a Perspex Palette or Minimalist Paint Kit I will include a Cloud Catcher (a 9x6 black sheet of Canson artist grade paper, use tiny office clips to hold to the palette) so you, too, can catch and sketch clouds.
Perspex Palette makes a great gouache palette
If you use gouache in your nature journals or field sketchbooks, here’s a great tip: use the clear Perspex Palette to mix your paint, placing the palette over a piece of paper identical to the pages in your journal (secure with masking tape or a couple of mini office clips).
So if you use grey paper (above) or tan paper (below), you are mixing your colors over exactly the right shade and won’t have an “oops” of mixing incorrectly.
Another tip: turn the palette so the magnet is at the bottom end of the paper.
Clear Perspex Palette with Magnet Strip
from $13.00
Nature Journaling Gift Ideas
Just in time for gift-giving, I have some new products to offer, from the venerable companies Rite in the Rain and Field Notes Brand.
And as an added bonus for you, I’m running a holiday special: buy two or more products or workshops (for a friend, partner, or yourself!—more workshops will be posted soon) I will give you your choice of an empty SMALL PAINT TIN (with 10 half-pans) or a MINI PAINT TIN (with 6 half-pans) and a mini spray bottle, as my gift to YOU!
>>Mention HAPPY HOLIDAYS GIFT (and which tin you would like) in the Notes.<<
Please order by December 15 to ensure Christmas delivery.
Nature Journaling
from $36.00
Minimalist Paint Kit
$63.00
My holiday gift for you
Buy a gift, receive a gift!
Because I value my customers and want to spread the cheer!
In these unprecedented times, the holidays are going to be more stressful than normal—and I want to help alleviate that with a gift-giving plan that gives back to YOU and helps you get out nature journaling and field sketching more often (and de-stress)!
Anyone ordering two or more products or workshops (for a friend, partner, or yourself—more workshops will be posted soon) I will give you your choice of an empty SMALL PAINT TIN (with 10 half-pans) or a MINI PAINT TIN (with 6 half-pans) and a mini spray bottle, as my gift to YOU!
>>Mention HAPPY HOLIDAYS GIFT (and which tin you would like) in the Notes.<<
Please order by December 15 to ensure Christmas delivery.
New products in Field Arts Shop
I’m pleased to announce several new products in the Field Arts Shop — my own spiral Field Journal Sketchbook filled with 90 pound Bee watercolor paper, and Minimalist Paint Tins in two sizes, with or without my favorite Daniel Smith paint samples.
I’m also taking pre-orders on the Minimalist Paint Kit set—a mini tin with paint, water brush, palette, microfibre cloth, clip, and spray bottle.
Field Journal Sketchbook
$18.00
These are 9 inches by 6 inches and contain 50 beautiful pages of 90-pound cold-press watercolor paper, with a strong metal spiral binding (so you can fold the pages back on themselves). There is a cardboard insert at the back for stiffness.
We chose to have these bound locally and sustainably, even though this means a higher price. It’s important to us!
The covers are proudly printed and bound by AZLitho, which uses 100% renewable power and is a certified member of the EPA’s Green Power program.
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Minimalist Paint Tins - 2 sizes, with or without paint samples
from $14.00
Offering two sizes of just the minimalist paint tin (see HERE for the Minimalist Paint Kit with Palette and Brush), and in two sizes, with or without my favorite Daniel Smith paint samples.
Plastic paint pans are half-pan size and either have magnets or sticky glue-dots on their bottoms so they stick to the metal tins. Lids have white mixing surfaces that wipe clean (for a “deep” clean use a Magic Eraser micro-fibre sponge).
All orders come with one mini spray bottle for refreshing your paint.
Mini – 2.5 inches x 2 inches x .5 inch and holds 6 half-pans
Small – 3.75 inches x 2.5 inches x .75 inch and holds 10 half-pans and the spray bottle (remove the spray bottle and you can add 5 more half-pans, not included).
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Minimalist Paint Kit
$63.00
Please note that we create these to order; please allow up to 6 days for us to assemble and mail.
What’s included is my set of “minimalist” watercolor tools and paint to allow you to easily sketch and paint “on the go” without fussing with lots of paints and brushes and other tools:
Mini paint tin with six half-pans inside . . . five of the pans contain samples of my favorite Daniel Smith colors for a triad + two extra colors: Manganese Blue, Quinacridone Rose, Cobalt (Aureolin) Yellow, Burnt Sienna, and Indanthrone Blue. NOTE: these are sample quantities, not full pans or half-pans!
Clear perspex palette with magnet strip to hold your paint tin—slip this palette into the back of your journal for an on-the-go painting solution [it also does so much more; see HERE for a full description of the multi-purpose palette-easel]
Dry erase marker with felt eraser tip
Small micro-fibre rag
Clip to hold the rag and brush
Mini or small Pentel Aquash water brush (note that what you receive may not be the same as in the photo)
Pen (black waterproof ink)
Tiny spray bottle for refreshing your paint
To bundle this kit with a Nature Journaling for a Wild Life book at a discount, please go to the Field Arts page and click on the book product and select the Bundle option.
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