Glad you stuck around that long. I wish you a great year, and many more to come!
News here is that I got an overly ambitious art project going on.
Backstory: I learned about nature journaling and intend to start with that later this year. I'm already outside a lot and enjoying nature, so putting my observations and thoughts about to paper seems like the next logical step.
This, however, is not the project I'm talking about.
While looking up some stuff about birds, I came across this wikipedia page: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_V%C3%B6gel_Deutschlands
It's an officially recognised list of all birds of my home country. This includes rare occurences and birds that might be recently extinct in Germany, so it's very thorough.
Now, before starting a nature journal, I had this idea of practicing drawing songbirds, and this gave me an idea: I'll draw all the songbirds on this list, on one page. 209 in total. Got thirteen so far.
This will take a while, but it's a nice thing that I can work on bit by bit. Don't need to hurry. And when it's done, it's gonna be something great.
Also, one thing I want to share is the youtube channel of John Muir Laws. He is one of the leading people in the nature journaling community, and his youtube channel got a lot of amazing tutorials on how to make simple, yet accurate drawings of animals, plants, fungi and landscapes. Especially a lot birds.
He is an American, so I'm not very familiar with a lot of the species he covers, but they're often close relatives of animals I see here, so it is still very helpful. And, in any case, he's great at explaining the basics.
News here is that I got an overly ambitious art project going on.
Backstory: I learned about nature journaling and intend to start with that later this year. I'm already outside a lot and enjoying nature, so putting my observations and thoughts about to paper seems like the next logical step.
This, however, is not the project I'm talking about.
While looking up some stuff about birds, I came across this wikipedia page: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_V%C3%B6gel_Deutschlands
It's an officially recognised list of all birds of my home country. This includes rare occurences and birds that might be recently extinct in Germany, so it's very thorough.
Now, before starting a nature journal, I had this idea of practicing drawing songbirds, and this gave me an idea: I'll draw all the songbirds on this list, on one page. 209 in total. Got thirteen so far.
This will take a while, but it's a nice thing that I can work on bit by bit. Don't need to hurry. And when it's done, it's gonna be something great.
Also, one thing I want to share is the youtube channel of John Muir Laws. He is one of the leading people in the nature journaling community, and his youtube channel got a lot of amazing tutorials on how to make simple, yet accurate drawings of animals, plants, fungi and landscapes. Especially a lot birds.
He is an American, so I'm not very familiar with a lot of the species he covers, but they're often close relatives of animals I see here, so it is still very helpful. And, in any case, he's great at explaining the basics.
I know hown it feels although in a small way(got a recurring pain and until finaly managed to get a doctor that took it seriously). Here it is to a better life!
What are you doing for your anniversary? And yes I want to see the Blot. I don't think I ever saw one of those.
