Celebrating National Wildlife Week National Wildlife Week is celebrated annually during the first week of April in order to highlight the special wildlife species that call the United States home. Below you’ll find a wide variety of stories, videos, and...
Let’s celebrate Manatee Appreciation Day which is observed on the last Wednesday of March. You can learn all about the world’s species of manatees and their ecology, anatomy, and how to sketch them in the video below that I recorded as a part of a live...
March 21st is International Day of Forests, set aside by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. When one imagines the word forest, you might first conjure images of tropical rain forests, but there are so many more! In North America, we have the...
Costa Rica Sketching Tour with Christine Elder July 15-22, 2023 / Approximately $2200 TRIP HIGHLIGHTS Get a behind-the-scenes tour at a wildlife rescue center and sketch the toucans, sloths, cats, and other sanctuary animals. Explore the cloud forests on the slopes of...
Learn All About Butterflies and How to Sketch Them March 14th is National Learn About Butterflies Day so If you’d like to learn more about butterflies, I invite you to watch my 55-minute tutorial video below. I suggest you gather some graphite and colored...
Celebrate March’s National Aardvark Day and Week by watching my comprehensive video workshop below! You’ll learn all about the biology, anatomy, and behavior of the amazing African Aardvark. You’ll also learn how to sketch one in a step-by-step drawing...
Celebrating Wildlife The United Nations’ World Wildlife Day is celebrated annually on March 3rd and the theme for 2023 is “Partnerships for Wildlife Conservation.” World Wildlife Day was created in 2013 when the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed this...
February is a big month for celebrating whales. Humpback Whale Awareness Month is celebrated all during the month of February and Whale Week and World Whale Day are celebrated each year during the 3rd week of February. All these events are meant to highlight the...
Learn about pangolins in the video below where I share fascinating facts about pangolins while I demonstrate how to create two realistic drawings of a Temminck’s Ground Pangolin that resides in Africa. Before you begin the video, I suggest that you download your...
Pangolin Sketching Workshop I’d you’d like to learn about pangolins; one of the world’s most endangered animals, watch the video below of a live workshop I taught on these unique, scaly creatures where you’ll learn about the world’s 8 species,...
World Wetlands Day is celebrated annually on February 2nd. Did you know that 30% of the world’s wetlands have been destroyed in the last 50 years? Wetlands play vital roles in the world’s ecosystems and harbor many endangered and endemic species. Below you’ll find all...
Join me for a free, online workshop where you’ll learn about the Ground Pangolin, also called the Temminck’s or Cape Pangolin, an endangered species that resides in southern Africa. You can register to attend the live event on February 15, 2023, at 8 a.m....
SQUIRREL SKETCHING VIDEO WORKSHOP Did you know that January 21st is SQUIRREL APPRECIATION DAY? If you enjoy watching the squirrels in your neighborhood, you might enjoy watching the replay of my squirrel sketching workshop. In this workshop, I’ll teach you about...
All About Zebras and How to Sketch Them In celebration of International Zebra Day, I am sharing two online workshops I’ve taught on zebras and how to sketch them. Mountain Zebra Workshop Click HERE to register and click HERE to download the South African...
Let’s Sketch a Reindeer! Below you’ll find an online workshop that includes fun facts about reindeer and lots of info about their anatomy to help you draw them even more realistically. To participate, REGISTER FOR REINDEER WORKSHOP then grab a pencil,...
Let’s celebrate the winter holidays by sketching a beautiful red and green holly leaf! Pick up a pencil and paper (or print the Holly Sketching Cheatsheet seen below the video) and follow along as I sketch festive holly leaves and fruit. Download the Holly...
Georgia O’Keeffe was born on November 15th, 1887 on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She has been an inspiration to me all of my life, with her love of nature and her subject matter that included the hauntingly beautiful landscapes of New Mexico, and the...
In celebration of International Sloth Day, check out this workshop recording below where you can learn all about sloth biology and how to sketch them! Just get a pencil, then download your Sloth Sketching Cheatsheet and click here to begin (75 minutes). WATCH THE...
Here’s a few of my favorite fungi from the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Many of these species are also distributed more widely or have close relatives around the world....
