Followup: For the Long Haul Class

Thanks for an enjoyable class! You may find the following helpful:

LINKS mentioned:

• Nature Spots with Lisa Spangler: https://lisa.wumple.com/naturespots/
• Facebook Group – Facebook: Nature Journaling for a Wild Life: https://www.facebook.com/groups/naturejournalingwild/
• Budburst, Chicago Botanical Gardens Phenology handouts: https://budburst.org/phenology-and-climate
• Article about Aldo Leopold and his lifelong love of Phenology: https://www.aldoleopold.org/about/aldo-leopold/
• Montana Nature History Center, Phenology Wheel (downloadable templates and examples):https://www.montananaturalist.org/blog-post/make-your-own-phenology-wheel/

BOOKS mentioned:

• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
• The Forest Unseen, David George Haskell
• Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold

FAVORITE NATURE APPS:

FREE SOURCES FOR NATURE JOURNAL WORKSHOPS:

• John Muir Laws – look at the Landscape section: https://johnmuirlaws.com/blog-archives
• Roseanne Hanson: https://www.exploringoverland.com/field-arts-tutorials

INK AND PENS: I mentioned a number of these that are easy and fun to use and aren’t very expensive.

• Felt tip pens:
  • I use a Sharpie (with a tip that looks like the Micron pens) or Micron
  • Pilot Razor Point makes a water soluble pen – great way to get interesting drawings with different shades of black.
• Fountain pens (my pens of choice because of the variability of the line and I can change colors):
  • Platinum Carbon Ink Pen with cartridges. Nice fine line – great for sketches.
  • Sailor Fude pen with cartridges. Wildly variable line.
  • I also have Lamy pens, and TWSBI pens.
• Fountain pen inks: I love water soluble and permanent:
  • Herbin (Just My Type – Eureka) have fun colors and you can get small samples. Come as cartridges for some pens or for refillable pens.
  • DeAtramentis: my go-to for permanent inks.
• Pencils:
  • Pentel Click mechanical pencil for guidelines in sketches. I use 0.7 thickness with 2B lead.
  • Stabilo Aquarellable makes water soluble pencils – great fun either alone (with water) or with watercolor added.

Keep your supplies to a minimum until your journal process needs more variety or you are ready to experiment with other tools. Focus on your entries and the tools will follow! Have fun!