Nature Sketching Challenge

I’m pleased to announce that the Nature Sketching Challenge has been turned into a course thanks to its popularity.

The course has been expanded to include more downloadable resources and video lessons.  I’ve renamed the program Discover Nature Sketching and have moved it to an online course hosting platform. Click below for FREE access.

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Praise from Participants

Nicole Weprin, student

Christine helped me to become more confident and excited about drawing. As a big-picture ecologist, I’ve thoroughly loved getting back into the habit of slowing down and focusing on the smaller details. I feel like I’ve become a better artist and a better biologist! Plus Christine’s videos are very approachable, educational, and fun!

-Nicole Weprin

Tabitha Stevenson, student

I’m enjoying the course so much more than I expected! It’s given me an excuse to take a quick break from work, go sit outside, and just be quiet and enjoy nature. And for someone who can’t draw, I think I produced a decent sketch with your instruction.

-Tabitha Stevenson

 

Frog Sketch by Jeffrey Peterson

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed Christine Elder’s course, and would recommend it to lovers of nature, at any level of experience, who’d like to making sketching a bigger part of their daily lives. Christine’s prompts are inventive and engaging, and her insistence on the value of process over product is just right. It’s been great to have a series of low-key occasions to share work with a supportive community, and I’ve appreciated Christine’s expertise, enthusiasm, and abiding generosity of spirit. Thank you!

-Jeffrey Peterson

 

Christy Wampler, student

This course has been a great opportunity to learn some useful but easy techniques for nature drawing! I took a full class from Christine years ago, (my first ever drawing class!), and I learned so much! I’m a biologist though, not an artist, and I haven’t honed my skills much over the years. This challenge has given me a chance to improve my technique with short, easy to follow lessons.

Christine’s classes are like the Rosetta Stone of drawing – you learn so easily and naturally, you don’t realize you are learning a new ‘language’. It helps me to be able to make quick sketches in my field notebook when I see something I need to identify later. Whether you are looking to improve your artistic skills or your understanding of the natural world, a nature drawing class with Christine is a great tool!

-Christy Wampler

Deer Mouse Sketch by Ellen Rathbone

I work as a naturalist and have always wanted to be able to draw. I’ve taken drawing and painting classes in the past but always ended up in tears because everyone else in the class was artistically inclined.

Taking Christine’s course pushed me to do things on a deadline.  Her techniques helped, especially watching her do them first.  And it was reassuring to see that some of her sketches were not 100% “accurate” to the original object either!!!  Variation is fine!  And the finished product looks great – even if it’s not a “photocopy” of the original.  I think I get too hung up on “it’s not right” – I’m learning that “it’s fine” works, too.

-Ellen Rathbone

Rhinoceros Beetle Sketch by Anke Roth

There is so much to examine and marvel at in the natural world when simply taking the time to really SEE. This is what Christine teaches in this sketching challenge. Her talent, knowledge of the drawing subjects, and her infectious enthusiasm make each session so much fun. Thank you, Christine; I now need more shelves to house my growing collection of curiosities!

-Anke Roth

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