Nature Journaling and Sketching and Why You Should

Nature Sketches, Collecting Nature Inspiration to Create Products, Book of the Month, WIA entries, Updated Portfolio, Finding New Ways to Plein Air Paint, And Recent Inspiration Ashley Herman Mar 17, 2026 Hi All! I want to talk about nature journaling/nature sketching. I have been doing a lot of it recently, gathering inspiration for new product […]

An Early Summer Collection of Inspiration

Hi all! I hope your summer is off to a great start! I feel like I have so much to share! I guess my inputs have been full. I think this newsletter will be bursting with inspiration! So here’s what I’ve been inspired by and up to lately… We went blueberry picking, and the light

Overview Effect, Fairytales, and Artemis II

The Earth Spins When we were very young the world seemed too extraordinary to actually be reality. We were awed by the common. I mean, we just couldn’t believe that trees could grow for hundreds or even thousands of years, that honey came from bees, that milk came from cows, that the moon causes waves,

Nature Journaling and Sketching and Why You Should

Hi All! I want to talk about nature journaling/nature sketching. I have been doing a lot of it recently, gathering inspiration for new product ideas. I think it would be particularly fun to do nature inspired lino prints. Or maybe even screen-prints? There are a million different ways to do plein air artwork (a.k.a. art

Having A Physical Color Library and How I Use It

Hi All! I wanted to share a recipe this month that I found and tweaked to make it fit my diet. I made it at Christmas time (which seems like the perfect time to make it!) it’s called Mazurka. I had never heard of it before. Apparently it’s named after a Polish dance. When cooked