What: Guided walk and outdoor field sketching and watercolor.
Would you like to enrich your relationship to nature while cultivating your art technique? Join Emma C. Schmidt—cartographer, illustrator, and painter— for an afternoon of drawing, watercolor painting, learning exploration, and the art of noticing at Shield Ranch. She will guide participants of any skill level in the discovery and sketching of native plants with an option to use watercolors in this restorative exercise in capturing the spirit of conservation… on paper and within yourself. Slow down, explore trails and observe wild plants and the change of the seasons together.
All skill levels are welcome—no artistic experience needed.
Located at the Campsite at Shield Ranch, within Shield Ranch’s 6,600-acre protected wildland and historic district comprising 10% of the Barton Creek watershed. This ecologically diverse sanctuary is home to many plants and wildlife.
All supplies are included. Bring your own sketchbook if you’d like.
Drinks and snacks included.
When: Friday, December 4 from 1-4pm
Where: Campsite at Shield Ranch; 10417 Crumley Ranch Rd., Austin, Texas 78738
Who: Adults and youth ages 13+
Cost: $35
Dusk to Dark Star Party and Nature Night; photos by Brian Fitzsimmons, Stephanie Chavez Noell, Central Texas Mycological Society.
