Keeping a Nature Journal

Hone your observation and drawing skills with this mindful nature journal, filled with prompts to get you engaged in the world around you.

Clare Walker Leslie’s approach has long been acclaimed for its accessible style of teaching people to see, witness, and appreciate the wonders of nature. With an emphasis on learning to see and observe, Leslie shows how drawing nature doesn’t require special skills, artistic ability, or even nature knowledge in order to reap the benefits of her book. 

For more than 20 years, this award-winning book by acclaimed naturalist and artist Clare Walker Leslie has introduced people to a different way of seeing the world. This fully revised third edition features Leslie’s inspirational techniques for becoming a skilled observer of the natural world and using drawing as a tool for deeper exploration, even if you don’t consider yourself an artist. Richly illustrated with Leslie’s own journal pages, sketches, and watercolors, as well as examples from journals of generations of her students, this book is an instructive guide and encouraging companion you’ll turn to
again and again.

Discover

• How to set up and use your journal
  
  
• How to hone your observation skills
  
  
• Essential journaling equipment
  
  
• Drawing techniques and exercises
  
  
• Lessons in drawing plants, trees, birds, animals, landscapes, and more
  
  
• Suggestions for maintaining a regular journaling practice

Details:

• Paperback
  
  
• 224 pages
  
  
• 8.06 x 0.75 x 10 inches

Clare Walker Leslie is a nationally known wildlife artist, author, and educator. For more than 30 years, she has been connecting people of all ages to nature using drawing, writing, and observation of the outdoors. Her books include the bestsellers Keeping a Nature Journal and The Nature Connection, as well as The Curious Nature Guide, Nature Journal, and Drawn to Nature. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Granville, Vermont.