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May 2, 2026
1pm-4pm
Join us for a hike through our woods with a focus on observing and drawing signs of spring: woodland wildflowers, unfurling fern fronds, freshly arriving warblers and leaves beginning to bud. Afterward, we’ll get together to draw our discoveries with colored pencils, pens, and watercolors. Leave with a springtime work of art that can also be used for a Mother’s Day or greeting card or the beginnings of a nature journal.
Colored pencils, pens and watercolors will be available, although you are welcome to bring your own.
In this class you will:
Get phone photography tips.
Be able to reference your own photos or some from the instructor to guide sketches.
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 illustration.
Learn about nature journaling if you want to blend sketches with writing.
Leave with a fresh appreciation for the signs of spring, and tips on identifying what you find or hear in the woods and learn about citizen science programs that can be another motivation to enjoy the outdoors.
Tuition: $50
Materials: $0
This course is for students 14+
Your Instructor
LISA MEYERS MCCLINTOCK
(she/her)
Lisa Meyers McClintick is a photographer, illustrator, Minnesota Master Naturalist and award-winning freelance journalist for the Minnesota Star Tribune’s travel and outdoor sections. She was in the first group of certified nature journaling educators through Jack Muir Laws’ Wild Wonder Foundation.