Let’s Draw Trees! with Kate Rutter and Cathy Raingarden: 4/6/25 9:30-11am Pacific
Join experienced sketchers Cathy Raingarden and Kate Rutter for a FREE live online class on ways to celebrate trees in our sketchbooks. We'll have a "tree-mendous" time drawing trees together and kick off the #ArborApril challenge!
FREE but registration required. Suggested donation: $25. NOTE: Please CHECK OUT after you click Add to Cart, or your registration will not be recorded. This is required even if you register for free. Look for the cart in the upper right corner of your screen. You will receive an an email by 5/4/25 with a link to join the class.
This fun sketching session pulls together approaches from Urban Sketching and Nature Journaling, both of which have a rich admiration for and unique approaches to observing and drawing trees, leaves, bark, and habitat. Bring your favorite sketching and journaling materials and sketch lots of trees during this interactive session. You will "leaf" with new skills and strategies for drawing and journaling your favorite arboreal neighbors.
NOTE: This is part of the Wild Wonder Year of Nature Journaling Prompts and the April prompt list will be posted here.
All ages and levels are welcome.
Materials:
Bring your favorite drawing/sketching/journaling supplies (paper, pencil, pen)
Color media recommended (colored pencils or watercolors, brush, and water)
A few sheets of watercolor paper
Please make a tax-deductible donation of $25 or more if you are able, using the menu below.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS
Cathy Raingarden is a visual storyteller, urban sketcher, illustrator, and teacher from Berkeley, CA. Her degree in landscape architecture nurtured her profound love of trees. She leads the East Bay urban sketching group, First Saturday Urban Sketchers. Cathy's artwork can be seen in the pages of Edible East Bay and in Chip Sullivan’s book, Field Sketching for Environmental Designers.
Kate Rutter is a lifelong sketcher with an experimental and rambunctious visual practice. An avid nature journaler, urban naturalist, educator, and native plant enthusiast, she leads nature journaling workshops and outings, and can often be found nature journaling tenacious plants who grow up between cracks in the pavement.
Image credits: Image in class promo by Kate Rutter. First two images in this store item by Cathy Raingarden. Second two images in this store item by Kate Rutter. Used with permission.
Join experienced sketchers Cathy Raingarden and Kate Rutter for a FREE live online class on ways to celebrate trees in our sketchbooks. We'll have a "tree-mendous" time drawing trees together and kick off the #ArborApril challenge!
FREE but registration required. Suggested donation: $25. NOTE: Please CHECK OUT after you click Add to Cart, or your registration will not be recorded. This is required even if you register for free. Look for the cart in the upper right corner of your screen. You will receive an an email by 5/4/25 with a link to join the class.
This fun sketching session pulls together approaches from Urban Sketching and Nature Journaling, both of which have a rich admiration for and unique approaches to observing and drawing trees, leaves, bark, and habitat. Bring your favorite sketching and journaling materials and sketch lots of trees during this interactive session. You will "leaf" with new skills and strategies for drawing and journaling your favorite arboreal neighbors.
NOTE: This is part of the Wild Wonder Year of Nature Journaling Prompts and the April prompt list will be posted here.
All ages and levels are welcome.
Materials:
Bring your favorite drawing/sketching/journaling supplies (paper, pencil, pen)
Color media recommended (colored pencils or watercolors, brush, and water)
A few sheets of watercolor paper
Please make a tax-deductible donation of $25 or more if you are able, using the menu below.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS
Cathy Raingarden is a visual storyteller, urban sketcher, illustrator, and teacher from Berkeley, CA. Her degree in landscape architecture nurtured her profound love of trees. She leads the East Bay urban sketching group, First Saturday Urban Sketchers. Cathy's artwork can be seen in the pages of Edible East Bay and in Chip Sullivan’s book, Field Sketching for Environmental Designers.
Kate Rutter is a lifelong sketcher with an experimental and rambunctious visual practice. An avid nature journaler, urban naturalist, educator, and native plant enthusiast, she leads nature journaling workshops and outings, and can often be found nature journaling tenacious plants who grow up between cracks in the pavement.
Image credits: Image in class promo by Kate Rutter. First two images in this store item by Cathy Raingarden. Second two images in this store item by Kate Rutter. Used with permission.
Join experienced sketchers Cathy Raingarden and Kate Rutter for a FREE live online class on ways to celebrate trees in our sketchbooks. We'll have a "tree-mendous" time drawing trees together and kick off the #ArborApril challenge!
FREE but registration required. Suggested donation: $25. NOTE: Please CHECK OUT after you click Add to Cart, or your registration will not be recorded. This is required even if you register for free. Look for the cart in the upper right corner of your screen. You will receive an an email by 5/4/25 with a link to join the class.
This fun sketching session pulls together approaches from Urban Sketching and Nature Journaling, both of which have a rich admiration for and unique approaches to observing and drawing trees, leaves, bark, and habitat. Bring your favorite sketching and journaling materials and sketch lots of trees during this interactive session. You will "leaf" with new skills and strategies for drawing and journaling your favorite arboreal neighbors.
NOTE: This is part of the Wild Wonder Year of Nature Journaling Prompts and the April prompt list will be posted here.
All ages and levels are welcome.
Materials:
Bring your favorite drawing/sketching/journaling supplies (paper, pencil, pen)
Color media recommended (colored pencils or watercolors, brush, and water)
A few sheets of watercolor paper
Please make a tax-deductible donation of $25 or more if you are able, using the menu below.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS
Cathy Raingarden is a visual storyteller, urban sketcher, illustrator, and teacher from Berkeley, CA. Her degree in landscape architecture nurtured her profound love of trees. She leads the East Bay urban sketching group, First Saturday Urban Sketchers. Cathy's artwork can be seen in the pages of Edible East Bay and in Chip Sullivan’s book, Field Sketching for Environmental Designers.
Kate Rutter is a lifelong sketcher with an experimental and rambunctious visual practice. An avid nature journaler, urban naturalist, educator, and native plant enthusiast, she leads nature journaling workshops and outings, and can often be found nature journaling tenacious plants who grow up between cracks in the pavement.
Image credits: Image in class promo by Kate Rutter. First two images in this store item by Cathy Raingarden. Second two images in this store item by Kate Rutter. Used with permission.
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