last morning
Tag: nature journal retreat
Hypnales
Rhododendron columbianum
big springs haiku
celebrating place
Kate offered a workshop called Celebrating Place with the Four S’s — Spaces, Senses, Scenes, Souvenirs. I couldn’t attend the class because I was offering my own workshop at the same time, but I used her handout as inspiration to create this spread.
stick painting
Painting with found objects (in this case, sticks) is a great way to loosen up and achieve unexpected marks. And there’s something delightfully meta (no, not that Meta) about using a piece of a tree to paint a tree, with ink made from a tree.
Pterospora andromeda
A new-to-me parasitic plant, discovered at Sand Pond in the Sierra Nevada.
maples big and small
Before making the drive back to Seattle, we stopped at Fairholme for a last swim and sketch. Tara and Jack climbed into a gargantuan maple and hung out up there for half an hour. Tara said she could spend the rest of her life in that tree. But all too soon it was time to say our last good-byes and start the long journey home.
lichens
So many types of lichen at Olympic National Park! These ones were just on the ground near where I sat.
blind gesture birds
One of the camp instructors was Debby Kaspari, who encouraged us to draw birds FAST without looking at the page, then clean up and correct our initial blind gesture sketch.
