Students love learning in Draw Your Way Through Nature Journaling!
Inspired by Charlotte Mason, this class will help you develop the habit of nature journaling. Students will learn to draw and watercolor trees, birds, butterflies, and snails and all things outdoors! Once they've learned some drawing techniques, they'll be inspired to go outside and do their own nature journaling. Building observation skills and drawing skills is a great foundation for future scientists!
This class is a great complement to:
CC Foundations Students
Charlotte Mason-Style Homeschooling, and
Linguistic Development Through Poetry Memorization, Andrew Pudewa.
Meets weekly for one hour
Each semester is 12 weeks long.
Tuesday 2:15 - 3:15 pm EST
Wednesday 10:00 - 11:00am EST
You can pay for the full year or pay by semester. Click your choice to go to checkout.
$559 full year
$299 per semester
*These prices include the registration fee.
Registration fee is non-refundable. Please see the FAQ page for our refund policy.
Class Calendar:
FALL DATES:
First week of class: Aug. 19
Break: Week of Sept. 15th
Fall Break: Week of October 6th
Last class: Week of Nov. 17th
Thanksgiving/Winter Break: Week of Nov. 24th
Spring 2026
Class Resumes for the spring on Jan 13th.
Spring Break: March 10th
Last class: April 7th
ALL CLASSES ARE RECORDED SO YOU CAN WATCH LATER IF YOU MISS A CLASS
Also available as a self-paced class which you can do any time:
Art Skills
Observe Nature
Drawing and shading with pencil
Using blending tools
Drawing and shading with pens
Watercoloring
Composition Stratagies
Showing Depth: linear and aerial
Showing Motion and Texture
There is a companion book for this class. It is very helpful but not required. It includes the poems and helpful reference material that students will use in class. It is only available for purchase on this website.
Themes
Every class will be like the next chapter in a story in which we go a little further into the woods and discover something new each week. A short, fun poem and great artwork will give us ideas for drawing the things we discover: maybe we will come upon "a host of golden daffodils", "dappled things", or, "a tree with a nest of robins in her hair." In addition to drawing, we'll learn to use color with, colored pencils, watercolors, or markers.
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