Posts Tagged ‘sketch’
It’s been awhile since I shared a page from my nature journal. I’m still struggling to find the size that will work for me, but I’m going ahead with the journal that’s the same size as my other journal. However, I think I’m coming around to agree with Susan Zwinger who taught the class I took with the Yellowstone Association – larger is better.
I did this sketch in pencil while waiting for Mike who had a meeting in Fairplay – I rode along to just get out of the house for a bit. The drive through South Park is so pretty anyway. During the wait, I took the time to get to know Curly Cup Gumweed a bit better. Later, I went over the pencil lines with pen for the most part, though the rest of the text wasn’t finished when I took the photo.
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Somewhere in Orange County, California lives a small hummingbird with a large, world-wide audience. Thanks to technology, we get to watch her raise her two babies. They hatched yesterday to much excitement. Nature Sketchers have been practicing on her:
- http://naturesketchers.blogspot.com/2010/01/allens-hummingbird-maree.html
- http://naturesketchers.blogspot.com/2010/01/phoebe-allens-real-treat-to-sketch.html
And I’ve been doing some practice with this willing ‘model’ but haven’t yet scannned them in to share. I’m still not very confident with my sketches, but when I look at them after letting them ‘rest’ a day or two, I seem to like them better. The hardest part seems to be that first mark on the page. So even though I’m a beginner at this, I’ll find something to share here in the next few days.
I really love this combination of Nature Journal sketch combined with digital scrapbooking. I’m down with some crud going around and so spent a bit of time sketching and then scanned it in and scrapbooked it digitally. Viola!
Nature Journal 11-1-09 Stellar's Jay
CREDITS:
Meryl Bartho’s Summer’s Last Song Page Kit
Meryl Bartho’s Any Old Iron Alpha
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I really enjoyed getting this page together. I took the photos back at the end of July with the intent of eventually sketching them. After sketching, I scanned the image, adjusted levels and then blended it to the digital background page (from Erica Belton’s Page Kit – Time Goes By ) by selecting the multiply option.
The best thing about doing this sketch this way is that I could rearrange some of the text by using the lasso tool and then moving that section. The best of both worlds!
Nature Journal - Wood Nymph page
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