Field Sketching Galls with Robin Carlson Part 2

Field Sketching Galls with Robin Carlson Part 2

About Robin

Robin Lee Carlson is a natural science illustrator and the author of The Cold Canyon Fire Journals. She builds careful observations of the natural world into deeper commentary on ecology and climate change, and her work centers on field sketching ecoreportage, living documentation of the ever-accelerating transformation of ecosystems by human activity. Her work has also appeared in The Common, the literary journal of Amherst College, and in Arnoldia, the magazine of the Harvard University Arboretum. She teaches online and in-person workshops that combine drawing, painting, and natural history.

Robin is one of the 2024 recipients of the Fireline Fellowship, part of the Long-Term Ecological Reflections Program in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon.

https://robinleecarlson.com/
https://www.instagram.com/anthropocenesketchbook/

Field Sketching Galls

A Field Journal Sketching Experience with Robin Carlson

Part 2: Galls in Willow, Manzanita, Alder, and Rose – Monday, March 24, 2025 – 7 to 8:30pm (Eastern)

Location: Online via Zoom

Cost: $30 per session

Register

The daVinci Pursuit is pleased to welcome illustrator and author Robin Carlson to our second series of online workshops about sketching galls in the field. In this series of two workshops, we will combine drawing, painting, and natural science. The classes will weave scientific knowledge into accessible and engaging instruction, where students actively create stories in their own artwork. 

Field Sketching Galls

Robin Lee Carlson

A gall is the eye-catching result of an intricate interaction between an insect and a plant. Galls offer a peek into the often unseen relationships between species in an ecosystem, and are exciting treasures to find when out exploring in nature.

I’d like to invite you to join me for a two-part series about sketching galls in the field. The first workshop will focus on different kinds of oak galls and the wasps that form them. The second workshop will look at galls formed by other insects (and mites) on other plant species. We’ll work in ink and watercolor and try out different techniques for drawing galls and gall-forming insects. At the end of each session, there will be time to ask questions and share your work and insights.

The workshops are designed to work together to build a picture of gall diversity, but either one can also be taken as a standalone class. Registrants will be able to attend live online and will also have access to a recording of the workshop.

Made possible through the generous support of the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitiable Foundation

Field Sketching Galls with Robin Carlson Part 1

Field Sketching Galls with Robin Carlson Part 1

About Robin

Robin Lee Carlson is a natural science illustrator and the author of The Cold Canyon Fire Journals. She builds careful observations of the natural world into deeper commentary on ecology and climate change, and her work centers on field sketching ecoreportage, living documentation of the ever-accelerating transformation of ecosystems by human activity. Her work has also appeared in The Common, the literary journal of Amherst College, and in Arnoldia, the magazine of the Harvard University Arboretum. She teaches online and in-person workshops that combine drawing, painting, and natural history.

Robin is one of the 2024 recipients of the Fireline Fellowship, part of the Long-Term Ecological Reflections Program in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon.

https://robinleecarlson.com/
https://www.instagram.com/anthropocenesketchbook/

Field Sketching Galls

A Field Journal Sketching Experience with Robin Carlson

Part 1: Oak Galls – Monday, February 24, 2025 – 7 to 8:30pm (Eastern)

Location: Online via Zoom

Cost: $30 per session

Register

The daVinci Pursuit is pleased to welcome illustrator and author Robin Carlson to our second series of online workshops about sketching galls in the field. In this series of two workshops, we will combine drawing, painting, and natural science. The classes will weave scientific knowledge into accessible and engaging instruction, where students actively create stories in their own artwork. 

Field Sketching Galls

Robin Lee Carlson

A gall is the eye-catching result of an intricate interaction between an insect and a plant. Galls offer a peek into the often unseen relationships between species in an ecosystem, and are exciting treasures to find when out exploring in nature.

I’d like to invite you to join me for a two-part series about sketching galls in the field. The first workshop will focus on different kinds of oak galls and the wasps that form them. The second workshop will look at galls formed by other insects (and mites) on other plant species. We’ll work in ink and watercolor and try out different techniques for drawing galls and gall-forming insects. At the end of each session, there will be time to ask questions and share your work and insights.

The workshops are designed to work together to build a picture of gall diversity, but either one can also be taken as a standalone class. Registrants will be able to attend live online and will also have access to a recording of the workshop.

Made possible through the generous support of the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitiable Foundation

A Guide to Sketching in the Field with Robin Carlson Part 3

A Guide to Sketching in the Field with Robin Carlson Part 3

A Guide to Sketching in the Field: Examples from a Study of Wildfire

Robin Lee Carlson

A sketchbook is a matchless tool for investigating the world. Sketchbooks have been my constant companions on walks, hikes, rambles, and research throughout my life. They are how I get to know a place, how I slow down and get lost in the details in front of me, and how I build all those individual observations into a deeper understanding of the ecosystem as a whole. Come and join me for a three-part introduction to field sketching! This series will begin with a session with everything you need to know to prepare for nature journaling in the field, including tools, techniques, and reference materials. In the next session, I’ll take you on a virtual field sketching expedition, putting our observation and sketching approaches into practice. Our final session will be spent exploring ways to use what we observed in the field for further development in artistic projects. Each of the three classes will use examples and techniques drawn from my work, especially from my long-term study of fire ecology. The classes will feature demonstrations of tools and supplies along with live drawing demonstrations for you to follow along. At the end of each session, there will be time to ask questions and to share your work and insights. These workshops are intended for a broad range of experience with drawing in the field. We will discuss all the basics that a beginner needs to know to get started, but all techniques will include new ways of looking and engaging with nature, and new ways of getting the most out of your drawing tools.

A Guide to Sketching in the Field

A Field Journal Sketching Experience with Robin Carlson

Part 3: Preparing for Field Sketching – Monday, December 9, 2024 – 7 to 8:30pm (Eastern)

Location: Online via Zoom

Cost: $30 per session

Register

The daVinci Pursuit is pleased to welcome illustrator and author Robin Carlson to our first series of online workshops about sketching in the field. In this series of three workshops, we will combine drawing, painting, and natural science. The classes will weave scientific knowledge into accessible and engaging instruction, where students actively create stories in their own artwork.

Part 3: Continuing Exploring After the Field Trip

Back home after a hike with a sketchbook full of drawings, what comes next? Field sketches can stand on their own as documentation of what we observed. They can also be springboards into further explorations of a place or process, or invitations to more involved artworks. In the final workshop of the series, we will talk about ways to keep engaging with your field observations: ways to identify new species encountered, how to investigate questions that arose, and ideas for expanding one set of observations into a larger project. I will share examples from my wildfire sketchbooks, and lead participatory demonstrations of some of the work I have done to develop field sketches into artworks that tell a story that emerges over time.

About Robin

Robin Lee Carlson is a natural science illustrator and the author of The Cold Canyon Fire Journals. She builds careful observations of the natural world into deeper commentary on ecology and climate change, and her work centers on field sketching ecoreportage, living documentation of the ever-accelerating transformation of ecosystems by human activity. Her work has also appeared in The Common, the literary journal of Amherst College, and in Arnoldia, the magazine of the Harvard University Arboretum. She teaches online and in-person workshops that combine drawing, painting, and natural history.

Robin is one of the 2024 recipients of the Fireline Fellowship, part of the Long-Term Ecological Reflections Program in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon.

https://robinleecarlson.com/
https://www.instagram.com/anthropocenesketchbook/

Made possible through the generous support of the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitiable Foundation

A Guide to Sketching in the Field with Robin Carlson Part 2

A Guide to Sketching in the Field with Robin Carlson Part 2

A Guide to Sketching in the Field: Examples from a Study of Wildfire

Robin Lee Carlson

A sketchbook is a matchless tool for investigating the world. Sketchbooks have been my constant companions on walks, hikes, rambles, and research throughout my life. They are how I get to know a place, how I slow down and get lost in the details in front of me, and how I build all those individual observations into a deeper understanding of the ecosystem as a whole. Come and join me for a three-part introduction to field sketching! This series will begin with a session with everything you need to know to prepare for nature journaling in the field, including tools, techniques, and reference materials. In the next session, I’ll take you on a virtual field sketching expedition, putting our observation and sketching approaches into practice. Our final session will be spent exploring ways to use what we observed in the field for further development in artistic projects. Each of the three classes will use examples and techniques drawn from my work, especially from my long-term study of fire ecology. The classes will feature demonstrations of tools and supplies along with live drawing demonstrations for you to follow along. At the end of each session, there will be time to ask questions and to share your work and insights. These workshops are intended for a broad range of experience with drawing in the field. We will discuss all the basics that a beginner needs to know to get started, but all techniques will include new ways of looking and engaging with nature, and new ways of getting the most out of your drawing tools.

A Guide to Sketching in the Field

A Field Journal Sketching Experience with Robin Carlson

Part 2: Virtual Field Trip, Sketchbook in Hand – Monday, November 18, 2024 – 7 to 8:30pm (Eastern)

Location: Online via Zoom

Cost: $30 per session

Register

The daVinci Pursuit is pleased to welcome illustrator and author Robin Carlson to our first series of online workshops about sketching in the field. In this series of three workshops, we will combine drawing, painting, and natural science. The classes will weave scientific knowledge into accessible and engaging instruction, where students actively create stories in their own artwork.

Part 2: Virtual Field Trip, Sketchbook in Hand

Out in the field with a sketchbook, where to start? With sights, sounds, scenes, and species all around, it can be daunting to decide what to stop and examine closely. Join me on a virtual field trip to explore a nature reserve recently burned in a wildfire. We’ll talk about how I approached the burned landscape when I started my project, how I spent my time once I was in the field, and how I decided what to focus on and draw. We will draw examples of plant, animal, and fungus species that thrive after fire. As we go, we will experiment with different ways to record what we observe, to fit varying conditions and time constraints in the field.

About Robin

Robin Lee Carlson is a natural science illustrator and the author of The Cold Canyon Fire Journals. She builds careful observations of the natural world into deeper commentary on ecology and climate change, and her work centers on field sketching ecoreportage, living documentation of the ever-accelerating transformation of ecosystems by human activity. Her work has also appeared in The Common, the literary journal of Amherst College, and in Arnoldia, the magazine of the Harvard University Arboretum. She teaches online and in-person workshops that combine drawing, painting, and natural history.

Robin is one of the 2024 recipients of the Fireline Fellowship, part of the Long-Term Ecological Reflections Program in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon.

https://robinleecarlson.com/
https://www.instagram.com/anthropocenesketchbook/

Made possible through the generous support of the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitiable Foundation

A Guide to Sketching in the Field with Robin Carlson Part 1

A Guide to Sketching in the Field with Robin Carlson Part 1

A Guide to Sketching in the Field: Examples from a Study of Wildfire

Robin Lee Carlson

A sketchbook is a matchless tool for investigating the world. Sketchbooks have been my constant companions on walks, hikes, rambles, and research throughout my life. They are how I get to know a place, how I slow down and get lost in the details in front of me, and how I build all those individual observations into a deeper understanding of the ecosystem as a whole. Come and join me for a three-part introduction to field sketching! This series will begin with a session with everything you need to know to prepare for nature journaling in the field, including tools, techniques, and reference materials. In the next session, I’ll take you on a virtual field sketching expedition, putting our observation and sketching approaches into practice. Our final session will be spent exploring ways to use what we observed in the field for further development in artistic projects. Each of the three classes will use examples and techniques drawn from my work, especially from my long-term study of fire ecology. The classes will feature demonstrations of tools and supplies along with live drawing demonstrations for you to follow along. At the end of each session, there will be time to ask questions and to share your work and insights. These workshops are intended for a broad range of experience with drawing in the field. We will discuss all the basics that a beginner needs to know to get started, but all techniques will include new ways of looking and engaging with nature, and new ways of getting the most out of your drawing tools.

A Guide to Sketching in the Field

A Field Journal Sketching Experience with Robin Carlson

Part 1: Preparing for Field Sketching – Monday, October 28, 2024 – 7 to 8:30pm (Eastern)

Location: Online via Zoom

Cost: $30 per session

Register

The daVinci Pursuit is pleased to welcome illustrator and author Robin Carlson to our first series of online workshops about sketching in the field. In this series of three workshops, we will combine drawing, painting, and natural science. The classes will weave scientific knowledge into accessible and engaging instruction, where students actively create stories in their own artwork.

Part 1: Preparing for Field Sketching

Let’s get started! This session will be full of ideas about how to prepare for a field trip. I will describe and show field sketching supply options, including sketchbooks, pens, pencils (graphite and colored), paints, and brushes. I will also describe other useful tools for field observation, and the ins and outs of having lots of supplies on hand or traveling minimally. The session will also focus on reference materials that are helpful before and during a trip, and how to prepare to visit a new location and have an idea about the habitat before you go. I’ll demonstrate my favorite references, both on paper and digital. Throughout the workshop, we will draw together, testing art supplies and demonstrating tools and techniques. The examples will be based on my study of fire ecology in a nearby nature reserve. I’ll describe and demonstrate how I prepared tools and supplies for my visits, how I conducted research into local species, and how I formulated questions and goals to guide my explorations.

About Robin

Robin Lee Carlson is a natural science illustrator and the author of The Cold Canyon Fire Journals. She builds careful observations of the natural world into deeper commentary on ecology and climate change, and her work centers on field sketching ecoreportage, living documentation of the ever-accelerating transformation of ecosystems by human activity. Her work has also appeared in The Common, the literary journal of Amherst College, and in Arnoldia, the magazine of the Harvard University Arboretum. She teaches online and in-person workshops that combine drawing, painting, and natural history.

Robin is one of the 2024 recipients of the Fireline Fellowship, part of the Long-Term Ecological Reflections Program in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon.

https://robinleecarlson.com/
https://www.instagram.com/anthropocenesketchbook/

Made possible through the generous support of the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitiable Foundation

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