Intermediate Journaling - Expanding your views & improving observational skills

This unique hybrid class with naturalist and field notes artist Roseann Hanson focuses on skills improvement for intermediate journalers, particularly those who took her spring workshop.

Hanson begins with a Zoom lecture on Friday evening reviewing and honing techniques, and then Saturday morning the class moves onsite at Tohono Chul Park in Tucson practicing these deeper skills.

Can’t join us in person, or are a little nervous still about COVID? There will be the option of an interactive 360-degree virtual tour of Tohono Chul Park so you can visit and take part as well!

• Honing observational skills through memory journaling

• Practicing sketching little landscapes or animals by focusing on shapes

• Using viewfinders and grids to isolate subjects and draw them quickly

• Page layout and design — how to use an organic approach to complete attractive pages

• Improving your journaling practice — how to make your journaling a lasting habit

A simple supply list will be provided and plan to bring a brown bag lunch for journal sharing time on Saturday.

Length: 5 hours total, over 2 days

Start time: All times are Arizona (Phoenix) –Friday, December 11, 5-7pm via Zoom

AND Saturday, December 12, 9am-1pm onsite at Tohono Chul or access and join via our unique virtual tour of Tohono Chul (you can then join in live via computer when students are out in the field and when Roseann is facilitating our journal sharing time).

(Having trouble figuring out time zones?Use this calculator: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html)

Format: Hybrid — Friday is online via Zoom (you will receive a log-in link) and Saturday you join us in person (outdoors, staying socially distanced, with masks) at Tohono Chul OR join us online via our interactive virtual tour and live Zoom link)

Cost: $65 for Tohono Chul Park members or $75 for non-members

To sign up: Please do so on the Tohono Chul Park website

Virtual Field Trip – Fall Colors in the Land of Mountains & Mesas (Oct. 31, 2020 – FREE)

Join me on a virtual field trip from Moab, Utah, to Aspen, Colorado, all along backcountry roads through some of North America’s most spectacular scenery as the colors begin turning fiery yellow and red.

Sketch along or just observe, I’ll narrate as I go to demonstrate why I choose to focus on what subjects and how to quickly capture them in your field notebooks and nature journals.

If you’re shy, don’t worry—we don’t require anyone to share their work and you can remain completely anonymous and worry-free!

Length: 1.25 hours (although it might go a little over)

Start time: 10:00 am Pacific Standard Time / GMT - 7 

(Having trouble figuring out time zones?Use this calculator: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html)

Format: online via Zoom (you will receive a log-in link)

Cost: free

Access: To protect your privacy and security online and for us to find out how many students will be attending, registration is required. Please use this link HERE.

Online class – Nature Journaling – Learn the art of seeing and recording the world around you

Announcing anytime access to my introduction to nature journaling class!

You can join my class any time on Vimeo, and work at your own pace.

• Rent the series for $35

• Buy and stream or download to keep always for $95

To view the trailer and three free bonus lessons go to learnjournaling.exploringoverland.com

[You can also access on at Learn the Art of Nature Journaling ]

Ask questions directly on the video page, or join our private Nature Journaling for a Wild Life Facebook group, where you can post your assignments.

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Keeping a nature journal or field notebook can both deepen your connections to the natural world and help you learn more about it. Neither science education nor art training is needed—you will develop the skills of a naturalist and a field sketch-artist along the way. 

In this class we will learn how to practice “intentional curiosity” as the core of nature journaling: to ask questions, to dig deeper, to focus our minds both intently and intentionally, as artist and naturalist John Muir Laws says. 

Instructor Roseann Hanson, who has been keeping field notebooks and nature journals for more than 30 years, will be your guide on the journey to becoming a naturalist, nature journalist, and artist. 

This class—the first in a series for beginners—will include:

• Simple tools to get started (you really only need a pen and a notebook!):

  • types of journals

  • paper and ink suggestions

  • archival systems

• The basics of nature journal entries:

  • types of data to record

  • ways to record nature data

  • prompts for sparking curiosity

  • honing observational skills

  • how to make entries that you can refer to later

  • how to get over the fear of the blank page

• You will learn how intense observation of nature is a kind of meditation that results in new insights, deeper understanding, and even reverence and gratitude—true mindfulness.

Join me for a Micro Safari with Monarchs and Milkweed

When: Saturday, September 5, 2020 – 10 am PST (GMT - 7)

Join me on a new kind of exploration—a micro safari! You don’t have to go far to discover wonderful things. We’ll hunker down in a field of milkweed and observe, learn about, and sketch monarchs, as well as many other insects. BONUS: If we have time we might just scoot down to Mexico to observe winter monarch habitat as well.

Sketch along or just observe, I’ll narrate as I go to demonstrate why I choose to focus on what subjects and how to quickly capture them in your field notebooks and nature journals.

If you’re shy, don’t worry—we don’t require anyone to share their work and you can remain completely anonymous and worry-free!

Length: 1.25 hours (although it might go a little over)

Start time: 10:00 am Pacific Standard Time

(Having trouble figuring out time zones?Use this calculator: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html)

Format: online via Zoom (you will receive a log-in link)

Cost: free

Access: To protect your privacy and security online and for us to find out how many students will be attending, registration is required. Please use this link HERE.

Thanks to Heather C. for the suggestion!

Registration opens for nature journaling workshop with the Natural History Institute - July 31-Aug 2, 2020

Join me and the Natural History Institute for a multi-day workshop exploring nature through field journals—all live online, including unique virtual field trips and your own field experiences.

Friday, July 31 – 5:30 pm to 7 pm

Saturday, August 1 – 9 am to 2:30 pm

Sunday, August 2 – 1 pm to 3 pm

Saturday, August 8 – 10am to 11 am check-in

$110 USD

Keeping a nature journal or field journal can both deepen your connections to the natural world and help you learn more about it. Neither science education nor art training is needed—you will develop the skills of a naturalist and a field sketch-artist along the way.

This 4-session class will introduce the tools and processes of keeping a nature journal, with instructor Roseann Hanson. There will be an optional 1-hour check-in the following Saturday as well. Sessions will be recorded, for review and if you miss a day.

“Your observations, questions, and reflections will enrich your experiences and develop gratitude, reverence, and the skills of a naturalist . . . If you train your mind to see deeply and with intentional curiosity . . . the world will open before you.” - John Muir Laws, artist, naturalist, and author

In this class we will learn how to practice “intentional curiosity” as the core of nature journaling: to ask questions, to dig deeper, to focus our minds both intently and intentionally.

The class will include:

• The nuts-and-bolts of journal-keeping (paper and ink types, archival systems, how to make entries that you can refer to later, laying out pages, prompts to jump-start observations, and tips on researching science questions sparked by your observations).

• Easy tips that enable anyone to get started sketching and painting. Roseann will help free you from your inner critic and start sketching and painting. Art in a nature journal is not only lovely to see, but an important component of your skillset because the very act of drawing and painting something from life involves incredibly intense observation. Your brain is wholly occupied by only that thing you are observing and drawing—it is a kind of meditation that results in new insights, deeper understanding, and even reverence and gratitude.

• Optional supplies package and book add-ons, mailed to you in advance, see below.

Instructor Roseann Hanson, who has been keeping a nature journal for more than 30 years, will be your guide on the journey to becoming a naturalist, nature journalist, and artist.

Optional supplies: Students may purchase my book, Nature Journaling for a Wild Life , which includes blank journaling pages, and Minimalist Paint Kit and other supplies prior to the class.

TO REGISTER:

Call or email the Natural History Institute 

(928) 863-3232, info@naturalhistoryinstitute.org