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This is a simple short cut for situations when you have a complicated landscape to draw, and you don’t feel up to it, or don’t have the...

Reproducible methods (and results) are a key part of rigorous science. And reproducing art has been part of doing art for centuries. So...

There’s a lot of research into creativity and critical thinking. What’s particularly relevant are studies looking at how arts integration...

Click image to view full newsletter. I spent much of the summer contributing to/planning two summer teaching institutes at the University...

Click on image to view full newsletter. August Table of Contents Sketching Tip: Shading with color Artful Science: Summer in a Glass...

There’s a sale at my printer right now, so I’m passing the savings along and taking pre-orders for holiday greeting and gift cards!...

August was full of workshops and trainings, nearly all of which focused on sketching in professional settings such as conferences,...

Cross-posted on ESA SciComm Section blog #sketchyourscience at #ESA100 settled it. This will be an #ESASciComm tradition for years to...

A version of this article is cross-posted on the ESA SciComm Section’s site. Everyone can learn to sketch. Even you. And there are plenty...

Moths to the left, butterflies on the right It’s National Moth Week! Since moths outnumber butterflies 11-to-1 in North America, there’s...

Cross-posted on www.drawntothewest.com There aren’t supposed to be any fireflies in Montana. At least not the type that blink and flash...

Lots of data indicate drawing skills are: a) good for scientists, b) good for science, and c) something anyone can learn. A few months...

Cross-posted on www.drawntothewest.com There weren’t any squirrels in the town where I grew up. I didn’t know to remark on that fact when...

World Sea Turtle Day, and I just happen to have a sketch of a sea turtle hatchling! I sketched this wee turtle, along with a handful of...

Cross-posted on www.drawntothewest.com A lot of those articles relate closely to the two-part series I just wrapped up about attracting...

If there’s anything I enjoy more than sketching and illustrating the world around me, it’s sharing… …what I discover or wonder about with...

“Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.” -Andy Goldsworthy But, how do you draw it?! As anyone who has stared at...

Urban Sketchers International produces a monthly newsletter called Drawing Attention, in which they feature the projects, workshops, etc....

focuses on seeing the world anew. Click image to view January 2015 newsletter. This Month’s Table of Contents: Sketching tip: Museum...

It had snowed overnight, making for a crisply cool morning and lots of extraordinary photos before I set out sketching. The snow is what...