The first meeting for the fall 2024 ** landscape/tree drawing class ** will be 1 p.m., Monday, October 14 at State College PA Wegman’s Cafe. This is a free planning meeting to set the schedule, share goals and supplies list.
Cost of each future class will be $35 o.b.o.; come to any or all.
Feel free to join the group at the Wegman’s first-meeting, or contact Taylor-Schmidt to be sent info about the schedule. Contact her to be included.
Register for this guided activity that I’m leading Wednesday, Sept. 18 at Galbraith Gap, hosted by Centred Outdoors of Clearwater Conservancy, Centre County, PA.
Do you need to rest in the cool understory of a lovely fully-leaved tree and learn to draw, write, report and nature journal?
Just need some time to practice open awareness to balance out all the overthinking ? This good practice is for you.
Be sure to register for a free limited space, here:
Please check out my events page for the latest spring 2024 upcoming happenings. I’m happy that I’m back in the teaching role at the Art Alliance of Central PA after a year off due to multiple recuperations last year.
I’ll be teaching a “Fundamentals of Drawing” and a 2-part workshop for teens in polymer clay creations, this spring. Register soon. Limited seats.
Then in July and August, I’m slated to lead a mindfulness thru drawing activity for Centred Outdoors. YAY! It’s based on tree ID.
So, let’s draw and create with polymer clay!
A Puppy Dog Drawing
Same puppy created in polymer clay as a 7″ sq. tile with painting in liquid polymer clay.
My husband Eric – with his booth for Sandy Ridge Bonsai – joins me at several festivals this fall at Way Fruit Farm near Stormstown PA, late September and early October. Bangles Luna MothFaux Butterfly WingFaux Labradorite Barrettes with SticksWell, I was!
I’ve got a late start on 2023 production, after a few surgeries and downturns.
August and September find me ramping up making polymer clay jewelry, having a few painting sessions out in nature and regaining health. YAY.
My fall festival schedule is pretty full and I’m going to be selling at some outdoor fairs this autumn, demonstrating polymer clay jewelry making at the Bellefonte “Friday in the ‘fonte” in Sept. & Oct. I’ll be teaching polymer clay jewlery making at the Art Alliance of Central PA too. Check out my events page that’s recently updated with the latest.
Nature has a frequency that replenishes, not a high-pitched digital hum, but one that coordinates with our own, is part of our own. Ralph Waldo Emerson called it the “oversoul,” something that connects us all. It feeds your wellbeing.
Centred Outdoors is encouraging us to tune into this with guided walks at various beautiful outdoor locations in the Central Pennsylvania region. They asked me to supplement four of these guided walks with a wellness activity.
I will be offering a nature journaling activity, with which you will take some time alone with a tree. I call it “Leaf Me Alone!”
Giving yourself time to really focus on a leaf and its tree, by reporting about it onto paper, using drawing, numbers, tracing, and rubbings. This will be a form of meditation. Especially if drawing is not fluent for you, you will use a different part of your brain and push other thoughts out of your mind. You’ll form questions about the leaf as you work. You’ll begin a process of discovery.
After you spend time with the tree, you will take some time to write your questions about the leaf/tree and perhaps about your life. You can begin a process of downloading thoughts to paper.
I will introduce you to this method, showing you some of my nature journal examples. I’ll guide you in the process, but as much of it as possible is very private and totally up to you how much you share with me or others. It’s all about you and nature, exploring nature and your own nature.
For these journal pages, I looked at an entire scene of the edge of the woods and picked out plants and trees that interested me, that piqued my curiosity. I drew a bit. I wrote a bit. Then, I colored some areas. Next, on the left-hand page, I wrote three questions. Later, I looked for some answers, and recorded them. I enjoy discovery and it enlivens my mind. My Centred Outdoors activity will be simplified for you, based on this exercise.
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