Nature Sketchbooks - August 9, 2025
August 9, 2025
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Join us for this program on nature sketchbooks with a focus on the beauty you can find exploring the trails and woods. We’ll discuss tips for photographing what you find with phone cameras, see how many different leaves, flowers and insects you can find, then we’ll gather back together for drawing and writing. Bring your own blank sketchbook. Colored pencils, pens and watercolor paints will be available.
In this class you will:
Learn about the mental-health benefits of nature journaling.
Get photography tips.
Find out what basic tools and art supplies to use.
Work with light pencil sketches, ink outlines, and colored pencils and blenders to finish your illustrations.
Get tips on what to write, what kind of field notes to take, and how to creatively blend words with pictures.
Leave with handouts and ideas for layouts and advice for continuing with a year-long nature sketchbook that celebrates Minnesota’s flora and fauna throughout the micro-seasons.
Tuition: $45
Materials: $0
This course is for students 18+, or students 12+ with accompanying adults
Your Instructor
LISA MEYERS MCCLINTICK
(she/her)
Lisa Meyers McClintick is an award-winning writer and photographer, longtime contributor to the Star Tribune and USA Today, and author of Day Trips from the Twin Cities guidebook. She’s also a teaching artist at The Loft, Paramount Center for the Arts, and other venues with a specialty in mental health, visual and nature journaling. She’s been a Minnesota Master Naturalist since 2021.
She makes jewelry, beads, embroiders, and practices wet and needle felting when she needs a more tactile creative endeavor than writing, photography and drawing.