{"id":1714,"date":"2024-03-20T21:39:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T01:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-bird-nest-practice\/"},"modified":"2024-03-23T21:55:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T01:55:25","slug":"sketchbook-bird-nest-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-bird-nest-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketchbook \/\/ bird nest practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following along a conference recording of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeanmackayart.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jean Mackay<\/a> (a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildwonder.org\/wild-wonder-nature-journaling-conference-2023\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">conference about nature journaling<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>I feel like it takes me an hour sometimes <em>just to warm up <\/em>enough to draw\/to be in the headspace\/less-self-space of drawing wholly. Maybe there&#8217;s some practice habits (self-training Pavlovian style?) I can give myself so I might enter that ready-loose-aware stage more quickly. <a href=\"https:\/\/johnmuirlaws.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Muir Laws<\/a>&#8216;s experience with clicking his mechanical pencil &amp; posture-with-notebook suggests there might be? (He relates this in a conversation with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.florencewilliams.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florence Williams<\/a> after her keynote address about wellness, time in nature, and awe.)<\/p>\n<p>(Which was another fascinating video.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-media-id=\"283308519\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/20aafe6ff5171a8a04e71a64abdfa4f0.jpg?fit=820%2C615&amp;ssl=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-media-id=\"283308581\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/5f76f30a6cd2222a7fc3c861da645637.jpg?fit=820%2C615&amp;ssl=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Jean McKay has a really pretty guided sketchbook, called The Nature Explorer sketchbook.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following along a conference recording of Jean Mackay (a conference about nature journaling). I feel like it takes me an hour sometimes just to warm up enough to draw\/to be in the headspace\/less-self-space of drawing wholly. Maybe there&#8217;s some practice habits (self-training Pavlovian style?) I can give myself so I&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,94],"tags":[578,556,397,99,252,549],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-sketches","tag-bird-nest","tag-lifelong-learning","tag-practice","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook","tag-wild-wonder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/20aafe6ff5171a8a04e71a64abdfa4f0.jpg?fit=820%2C615&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pakBUO-rE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1749,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-loose-bird\/","url_meta":{"origin":1714,"position":0},"title":"Sketchbook \/\/ loose bird","author":"Kir","date":"10 April 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Practicing being loose with watercolor","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_5789-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_5789-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_5789-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_5789-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_5789-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1683,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-chicken-practice\/","url_meta":{"origin":1714,"position":1},"title":"Sketchbook \/\/ chicken practice","author":"Kir","date":"7 March 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"For work\/professional development, I got video access to the Wild Wonders 2023 nature journaling conference. 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This was such a fun mix of technical aspects and play. She showed us ways to take our basic printing and make it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/b3d29000fd8348231e365b3cc07f504e.jpg?fit=820%2C928&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/b3d29000fd8348231e365b3cc07f504e.jpg?fit=820%2C928&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/b3d29000fd8348231e365b3cc07f504e.jpg?fit=820%2C928&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/b3d29000fd8348231e365b3cc07f504e.jpg?fit=820%2C928&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1653,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-stork\/","url_meta":{"origin":1714,"position":3},"title":"Sketchbook \/\/ stork","author":"Kir","date":"14 February 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I saw my first Wood storks flying overhead when I was in Florida for my brother's wedding. I was at Universal Orlando; it was getting on toward twilight, and there were a several of them. They were so huge! and so remarkable! and I didn't have my binoculars! But I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/3bc37c8fd1f6d6b825534b3e392f8af4.jpg?fit=820%2C880&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/3bc37c8fd1f6d6b825534b3e392f8af4.jpg?fit=820%2C880&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/3bc37c8fd1f6d6b825534b3e392f8af4.jpg?fit=820%2C880&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/3bc37c8fd1f6d6b825534b3e392f8af4.jpg?fit=820%2C880&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1074,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/a-mess-o-practice\/","url_meta":{"origin":1714,"position":4},"title":"A mess o\u2019 practice","author":"Kir","date":"18 June 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Just taking little steps forward on things!Hanging out on my Dad\u2019s porch and painting on a cool almost-summer day.The 2 lounging dragons are from a Smaugust sketch a couple years back, scanned, printed by inkjet onto watercolor paper. 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