Starting

Two Encouraging Free Resources to Start You Nature Journaling

providence-doucet-mE5MBZX5sko-unsplash.jpg

What is nature journaling?

I’ve been asked this numerous times and I haven’t found a more succinct or friendly explanation than that given in Make a Date with Nature: an Introduction to Nature Journaling, written and illustrated by Australian scientist/artist Paula Peeters.

You’ll not only find out what it is, but why do it, how to get started, and how to keep it going. You’ll find warm-up exercises for seeing and drawing, and warm-up exercises for your written notes, along with much more in this slender 29-page volume.

Peeters also recently summarized key journaling ideas onto one hand-drawn page that can be printed and placed in your journal.

She makes these two lovely treasures available on her blog, Paperbark Writer: Australian Nature Meets Science and Art.

The Low Down on the Downloads

To download a free copy of the book Make a Date with Nature: an Introduction to Nature Journaling:

  1. Go to https://www.paperbarkwriter.com/product/make-a-date-with-nature-an-introduction-to-nature-journaling/

  2. Scroll down past the physical book purchase of the same title until you see a box to enter your email. Having entered it, you will receive an immediate PDF of the 29-page book. You can save the file, and print.

To download the one-page prompt of ideas for journaling:

Then enjoy!

Thank you, Paula Peeters, for generously making these available; for your honest, imperfect version of the ideas sheet, posted instead of a perfect, polished one you meant to get to. And thank you for your friendly encouraging manner, letting us know that “anyone can draw and anyone can write.”

Want to see a recent interview with Peeters? The Australian network ABC featured this lovely interview with Paula Peeters and her Paleobotanist husband over their work, in the context of their garden.