{"id":1683,"date":"2024-03-07T00:36:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T05:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-chicken-practice\/"},"modified":"2024-03-23T12:02:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T16:02:24","slug":"sketchbook-chicken-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-chicken-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketchbook \/\/ chicken practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

For work\/professional development, I got video access to the Wild Wonders 2023 nature journaling conference<\/a>. After the fact, so it’s asynchronous and all that. I just stream the videos and follow along as my schedule allows. Got to get through four days before the end of April!<\/p>\n

Of course, between work and life and asynchronousness, sometimes I lose my place and I go back and pick up again partway through the video. Did I already post the Sketchbook pages about the mountain lions? Or the chickens? Well, I went back to the chicken one \u2013 \u2013 this is still only the third video out of the four days! \u2013 \u2013 with Debby Kaspari<\/a> \u2013 \u2013 and drew\/painted some more. (Last time I just went with colored pencils and I had a mixed media sketchbook . Colored pencil can be really handy. It does not really smudge like graphite but you can still do all the shading that you do with graphite. I like that. )<\/p>\n

This is a small 50lb paper sketch pad so it’s completely wrong for watercolor, which is why everything so wrinkled and color-blendy. But my goal is just to loosen up and learn the shapes even if what goes on the paper is wrong.<\/p>\n

And I made that goal today!<\/p>\n

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For work\/professional development, I got video access to the Wild Wonders 2023 nature journaling conference. After the fact, so it’s asynchronous and all that. I just stream the videos and follow along as my schedule allows. Got to get through four days before the end of April! 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