60-Second Bird Sketching with John Muir Laws

Got a minute? Sketch a bird! Join award-winning artist, author, educator, and scientist John Muir Laws for, aka Jack, for a fun class on quick bird sketching where he will share his best tips and tricks learned through his 40 years of teaching and illustrating. This class is a great opportunity for you to learn how to draw birds from the award-winning artist and author who literally wrote the book on the subject: The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds. Drawing birds is a great way to study them and learn about them. A widely respected avian artist, Jack is continually refining his bird drawing techniques, and this class will include his latest ideas and tips to help you quickly capture birds on paper. Jack is the author of several books including the Laws Guide to Drawing Birds (more than 60,000 copies sold), which includes an introduction by respected author and bird artist David Allen Sibley. In that intro, Sibley wrote: “I wish this book had been available to me when I was starting out, because it is filled with tips and tricks that took me decades to learn.” All ages and levels welcome. All bird photos in this video are used with permission from https://www.birdpixel.com/ Thank you, Vivek, for sharing your beautiful photos and encouraging bird artists to draw from them! :) FEEDBACK ON PAST CLASSES WITH JML “This is the most wonderful online class that I have ever taken, paid or otherwise. The expertise of Jack as a teacher and artist is SO amazing. I loved every single second of this!” —Past participant in a class taught by John Muir Laws PLEASE SUPPORT THIS FUNDRAISER This class is a fundraiser for the Wild Wonder Foundation, which is dedicated to encouraging nature connection and conservation through attention, curiosity, art, science, and community. We strive to make nature and nature journaling accessible to everyone by sponsoring the annual Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference as well as other events, educational workshops, field trips, teacher trainings, retreats, exhibits, grants, and other activities and projects in support of our mission. Please support our work by donating here: https://www.wildwonder.org/donate ABOUT JOHN MUIR LAWS John Muir Laws is a principal leader and innovator of the worldwide nature journaling movement. John, who goes by Jack, is an award-winning naturalist, artist, scientist, and educator who has dedicated four decades of his life to connecting people to nature through art and science. From an early age, his parents instilled in him a deep love and respect for nature. Over the years, that love has grown to a commitment to stewardship, nature conservation, and a passion to share the delight of exploring nature with others. As a writer, scientist, and artist, Jack has developed numerous interdisciplinary educational programs that train students to observe with rigor and to refine techniques to become intentionally curious. Laws is the award-winning author and illustrator of several books including The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling (also available in Spanish), and the Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada, among other books. He is co-author with Emilie Lygren of How to Teach Nature Journaling. Learn more about John Muir Laws at https://johnmuirlaws.com/