Nature Journaling Learning to Observe and Connect with World Around You

by Clare Walker Leslie

anyone can learn how to start and keep an ongoing nature journal. to develop skills in observing, sketching, appreciating, and writing

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Nature

Hardcover

First published January 9, 1998

About the author

Clare Walker Leslie is a naturalist, artist, and writer. She is best known for her nature journals. She advocates their use by the wider public.

Reviews

[Eunice · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is beautiful and inspiring. Her simple, natural style of drawing will be instructive to adults and older children. Nice ideas on different kinds of nature journals to keep: it doesn’t all have to be all perfect and scientific!

Ideas…
-A view from a window four times a year.
-draw the same leaf with various mediums such as blue ball point pen, fine pen, technical pencil, 2B pencil, marker, pastel.
-Do a family travel nature journal where everyone contributes. It helps recall memories. Add funny things that happened.
-I like her ideas on blind contour drawing.
-observation lists.
-measuring weathering, habitats, seasons.
-charts, graphs, mapmaking.
-Watch the sky for 20 minutes, drawing and making notes, then write a poem.

[Julianna]

Too much like a formal textbook for me

[Reuel · Rating 4 out of 5]

published 1998.