I've been working in this nature journal lately, loving its brown pages.
Brown pages have a magic trick that lets you use dark and light media to show highlights and shadows, quickly creating depth.
Here's a flip through of my journal over the last few weeks. On this page, I used colored pencil, ink and watercolor to sketch a colorful grove of sassafras trees.
Autumn is a great season for collecting treasures from the land and bringing them indoors to sketch. I picked this apple from one of our trees.
Maple keys and squirrel-chewed hickory nuts make interesting bits to study.
I taught a nature journaling class for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in October. We went out on campus and found loads of things to sketch.
And in my favorite park, Raccoon Creek State Park, I found a quiet log in the woods where I sketched this lake scene.
Even indoors on cold days, you can make observations in your nature journal. This is an entry about moving my potted plants indoors for the winter.
The trick to filling pages in your nature journal is simply taking the time to sit and observe what's going on in nature and your life.
Use any art material you like, and record what's interesting to you.
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