How to Draw and Paint Heliconia Flowers Heliconias are beautiful plants that live in the Neotropics of Central and South America. They are also prized as garden ornamentals for those folks lucky enough to live in mild climates. If you’d like to learn how to draw...
Step-by-Step Tutorials on Drawing Woodpeckers Below you’ll find step-by-step drawing demonstrations of two common woodpecker species in North America; the Hairy Woodpecker and the Acorn Woodpecker as well as a webinar on the West Indian Woodpecker, created in...
Warbler Slideshow and Sketching Demo With Spring hot on the heels of Winter here in North America, warblers are making their way from their southern wintering grounds to establish their breeding territories in the north. In the slideshow below, you’ll learn the...
Learn to Sketch Robins and their Kin In this video replay below (filmed as a live online workshop) you’ll learn all about Thrushes; a global and diverse group of birds in the family Turdidae. We’ll cover their biology, ecology, and especially anatomy to...
Hummingbird Sketching Workshop Watch the replay below of a live workshop I taught on January 11, 2020, on the Crowdcast app. You’ll learn fun facts about hummingbird biology and ecology, then I’ll show you step-by-step how to draw a beautiful tropical...
Using Toned Papers in Nature Journals I usually don’t advocate for using any particular type of art-making material, since I want folks to feel free to use what they readily have on hand. But toned papers are a creative, flexible, and inspiring ground to work on, and...
How to Sketch a Seahorse Get a pencil, download your Seahorse Sketching Cheat Sheet, then watch the video tutorial below to draw your own seahorse. Learn more about Seahorses Learn all about seahorse biology, ecology and conservation on THIS BLOG POST. Learn to Draw...
Learn All About Hummingbirds! In the video tutorial below, you’ll learn fun facts about hummingbird biology and anatomy then I’ll lead you in a step-by-step demonstration of drawing a Rufous Hummingbird together. Download your copy of the Rufous...
In Celebration of World Pangolin Day (3rd Saturday of February) I’ve created a video that shares some fascinating facts about the habits and habitats of pangolins. You’ll also learn a lot about pangolin anatomy while you follow along to my sketching...
Pitcher Plants of Borneo I’ve been lucky to observe many species of carnivorous plants out in buggy bogs and water-logged wetlands like the ones pictured below on the island of Borneo. Borneo has over 30 species of pitcher plants in the genus Nepenthes, distributed in...
