Starting my first perpetual nature journal! 🌼🦎
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- Developed by botanical artist Lara Call Gastinger, perpetual nature journals are a way to visually document our discoveries outdoors on a regular basis. I've heard about this method for years and I'm finally getting around to starting my own!
Here's the basic idea:
1. Get a blank journal. If you want to incorporate wet media like watercolor, make sure the paper can withstand that.
2. Think about how often you want to add a small observational sketch to your journal. It could be one every day, week, or month (I opted for 1/week).
3. Divide up the journal based on the timeframe that you decided on and pre-write all the date ranges out.
4. Once you're finished with the first year, return to the same pages for the next and the next. Your journal is finished when all the space on your pages is filled up (I'm anticipating that mine will last 3 years). Now you have a tangible reminder of all the interesting things you observed throughout the various seasons, over the course of several years!
Learn more about perpetual journaling at: www.perpetualj...
Hello there!! Greetings from Northern Ireland, *_The Pressley Girls_* sent me.
Beautiful drawings! The kids and I watched and loved the close up of your finds outside! This concept reminds me the Charlotte Mason “Book of Firsts” - not that she discovered it but rather the CM community enjoys doing this. It’s a journal where one records the first time seeing something and it cycles through the years. You can record first snow, honeybees, specific birds in spring, and the journal can be divided into any way you’d like as well - daily, weekly, monthly. Thank you for the video - very encouraging!
Great idea! And what a handsome salamander and excellent rendering of it. We have a somewhat similar California/Baja garden slender salamander that I nature journaled before. Thanks for the inspiration!
Dear Rozalie, I am so glad that I discover your youtube video with your drawing. I bought your book in January 2023 which is amazing, but a video is a video! Please more,more,more...I love your drawings..Greetings from Vienna🎡, Austria/Europe.....Ilse
What a fun share today! Thank you!
Hi Rosalie! I discovered you through Katie and Corie Pressley's YT channel. I live in WV and like the Pressley family and you, I love Appalachia. I'm 66 years old and was born, raised and still live here in WV. I'm disabled now and can no longer get out to hike and look at the beauty of nature like I once did. I think I'm going to have to get your book and some supplies to try some watercolor painting myself! I definitely subscribed and I'll bet you'll get a lot more from people like me who find you through the Presley Girls UA-cam channel. You're insanely talented btw!
So fun, Rosalie! Thanks for sharing! It's still snowy here in Wisconsin, but I'm looking forward to making my own discoveries as spring arrives here, too!
I know a lot of people like to sketch the bare limbs of trees in winter - and then follow them through the year!
I love this idea, thanks for sharing! Such great art captures of the plants and salamander 😊
oh awesome, love this idea. Have always thought about drawing the cycle of plants, but being able to do the cycles of nature itself over the course of the year is really special. Thanks for sharing :) (also love the honeybee on the aconite!)
Love this idea! Also, how you also made a video journal of these little creatures…thanks for the video❤
Love this! I am also just starting my natures journal. I’m nervous because I’m not good at drawing/painting but going to try to do it anyway. Your pages already look so good! Can’t wait to see how it turns out after 5 years!
I used to think this about myself, too. Then I once heard that everyone has the potential to be an artist. I started keeping a haphazardous nature journal when I started homeschooling a la Charlotte Mason, and I'm noticing my drawings are actually quite good, as long as it's something that doesn't move, lol. My attempt of a silverback gorilla at the zoo is comical. Landscapes also need a lot of work. But I just wanted to encourage you to go full speed ahead with your nature journal and let your inner artist out 😊
Hi Rosalie! Such a wonderful journaling practice, thank you for sharing!!
- claire
I love this so much! I have a watercolour journal that I’ve been saving for “something”! I think this is it!! Been following you quietly for a few years…found you on Skillshare! Have done all your classes!! ❤
That perpetual idea is amazing
Love your capture of nature through watercolor journaling! Hello from Ohio. Found you through The Presley Girls.
that red back salamander looks like a worm at first. very interesting. i lately discored nature journaling, it is fun. even tho i draw for 18 years now professionally. and i pretty good at observation. it improved my concentration while drawing.
Super fun video. I’m getting into nature journaling this year.
Enjoyed your knowledge about the salamander and the way you sketched the little critter. Thanks to the pressley girls im' checking you out and subscribing.
Greetings from N. Georgia!
The Pressley Girls found value in your channel and sent me over.🌟💜🌟
wonderful idea!
This is wonderful! Really enjoyed watching this and would love to see more of your nature journal on your UA-cam channel 😊 also, what type of journal is this/what paper? Thank you :)
Kind regards,
Freya, based in the Scottish Highlands 🏴
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ihr habt die Mögllichkeit euch mit Jon Young zu beschäftigen. Dann braucht ihr keine Tiere fangen oder Pflanzen abschneiden. Eingeborene brauchen sowas nicht um andere Lebewesen zu erfahren.