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Intermediate Nature Journaling: Expand your views and enhance your practice

Artist, author, and explorer Roseann Hanson is your guide.

This unique hybrid class (part online, part in person) focuses on skills improvement for intermediate journalers:

  • 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

Downloads:

[DOWNLOAD THE FOLDER WITH ALL FILES BELOW (ZIP FILE)]

Folder of Files

Links:

Virtual Field Trip to Tohono Chul Park with videos, images, 360-degree views

Fibonacci - Golden Ratio Gauge on Etsy

How to Make Your Own Fibonacci Gauge

Video explaining the Golden Ratio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wntIMD9wbR0

Page Design Theory, Eye Movements, Element Hierarchy and Perception:

https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/visual-hierarchy-organizing-content-to-follow-natural-eye-movement-patterns

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/02/design-principles-dominance-focal-points-hierarchy/

https://www.interaction-design.org/courses/the-ultimate-guide-to-visual-perception-and-design

How to render 3D Cube Maps (blog post) Part 1

How to render 3D Cube Maps - Part 2

 
 
 
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