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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 For the past decade, I’ve taken special delight in looking at, and drawing, insects. It all...

Lately, I’ve been writing about birds, drawing birds, tending to the six that are now my responsibility (chickens!), and watching...

Cross-posted on www.drawntothewest.com The other weekend, I was out hiking in an area of southwest Wyoming resplendent with big...

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

It’s spring for real in my part of the world. So this month’s newsletter focuses on just that. Click image to get inspired/read...

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...

www.drawntoquebec.com). 1. “Just a quick note to tell Bethann [Merkle] that I really love the artwork [in the new Drawn to Quebec...

December 2014 Newsletter is live! The CommNatural newsletter is distinct from my blog, so click here to view and click here to subscribe....

Click image to view article. One of the participants in a recent “how to sketch nature” workshop I led turned out to be a journalist from...

Should returning to school require eschewing the outdoors? That’s not a trick question. The answer is no. A growing body of research...

I’ve been penning the Drawn to Quebec illustrated column for over a month now, and the majority of my articles have been nature-inspired,...

I’ve been exploring the intersection between sketching on location and eco-communication inspired by life a lot lately. So, I couldn’t...

Sometimes, it takes a screeching mob of crows to remind me to look up. #lifelessons #makingsciencematter #photography #Canada #ecocomm...

Mar/Apr. 2014 “Dear Digit, I know my communications are supposed to look good.  But, I don’t have fancy expensive design software, and I...

Have you ever watched a moth breathe? Or looked so long and carefully at one dangling from a tree branch that it actually seemed to...