Sketching in Nature is an international network of artists from all over the world "working from the best teacher there is -- nature!
This is a wonderful blog with links to other blogs by nature artists who keep detailed field journals of their observations. The blog lists artists by name and by subject matter. For example, this is a field note page concerning a piliated wood pecker posted by Artist Cathy Johnson in Missouri. Artists use their field journals to keep verbal and visual notes of their subject to be used in later drawings, paintings, sculpture or whatever medium they work in.
Think of it as a visual diary. In this sample, for example, Johnson has sketched the head of a female piliated wood pecker that is paired with written notations about the length of its beak, its coloring, etc.
Young artists should be encouraged to keep field journals the way young writers might keep a journal of their daily lives and ponderings.
A sampling of subjects listed at Sketching in Nature includes: botanical art, bald eagles, acorns, Australia, Italy, mushrooms, fossils, bugs, and skies. This is by no means an exhaustive list. To check out Sketching in Nature follow this link.Then go out and get yourself a pocket-sized sketch book and start sketching!
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