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Tag: Clare Walker Leslie

  • Friday, October 27, 10:00 am – Setting Up a Seasonal Nature Journal

    Come learn how to set up and be inspired to continue your own ongoing Seasonal Nature Journal. Record in simple drawing and writing the weather, habitat, plants, and animals of here and where you live. As our climate is changing, your own Nature Journal can be a useful way to track the changes you see. Veteran Journal keeper, artist, and author Clare Walker Leslie will lead you both outdoors and indoors in ways to excite you to keep your own Journal going. The class is suitable for beginners. No previous drawing or writing skills are needed.  The class will take place Friday, October 27 at 10 at The Gardens at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street, Wellesley, and is $50 – $70. Register at www.masshort.org

  • Sunday, September 19, 1;00 pm – 2:30 pm – Keeping a Nature Journal Book Launch with Clare Walker Leslie

    Join The Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery for a book launch for Clare Walker Leslie’s two most recent books – Keeping a Nature Journal 3rd edition (2021) and A Year in Nature (2020) including special drawing journal pages from her years of exploring Mount Auburn Cemetery.

    Enjoy a nature discovery walk led by Clare and a nature contest to win a free book. Books will be available for sale on-site through Porter Square Books.

    All ages welcome. For further information on Clare’s books and work: http://www.clarewalkerleslie.com/

    Registration required at www.mountauburn.org.

    To request an accommodation or for inquiries about accessibility, please contact friends@mountauburn.org or 617-607-1980.

  • Saturday, September 17, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm – Reflecting On Our Connections With Nature

    Join naturalist, educator, author Clare Walker Leslie at Tower Hill Botanic Garden on Saturday, September 17 from 10 – 1 for a little time just Being With Nature. Clare will guide you in ways to become more attentive to the small events happening continually in the nature just beyond your doorstep, wherever you are and in any season. Inspired by Clare’s most recent book The Curious Nature Guide: Explore the Natural Wonders of Nature All Around You, you will watch, listen, and reflect as we walk around the gardens and landscapes of Tower Hill as they transition to fall. Clare will give you prompts for recording in word and in simple image. Participants will leave with ways they can continue these nature reflections on their own and where they live.

    Bring paper and pencil, pen and color if you want. Suitable clothing for walking outdoors recommended. The session will take place part indoors and part outside.

    Clare Walker Leslie is a nationally known naturalist, artist, educator and author of 12 books on connecting with nature.  She teaches workshops in Observing Nature throughout the country for schools, colleges, nature centers, and environmental organizations. Information on Clare can be seen at: www.clarewalkerleslie.com.  Session is $35 for Tower Hill members, $50 for nonmembers.  Register online at www.towerhillbg.org.

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  • Wednesday, September 9, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Nature Walk with Clare Walker Leslie

    Join Clare Walker Leslie, author of The Curious Nature Guide, for a North Cambridge nature walk. The walk leaves the Porter Square Bookstore, 25 White Street in Cambridge at 5 pm, and returns in time for a 6:00 reception at the store.

    With dozens of simple prompts and exercises, best-selling author, naturalist, and artist Clare Walker Leslie offers adults of all ages an invitation to step outside for just a few minutes a day, reignite the sense of wonder and curiosity about the natural world, and discover the peace and grounding that can be found by connecting to nature as part of daily life. Using photography as well as the author’s own illustrations, The Curious Nature Guide invites readers to start at home, using all of their senses to notice the colors, sounds, smells, and textures of the trees, plants, animals, birds, insects, clouds, and other features that can be observed right outside their doorstep, no matter where they live. Prompts range from suggestions to note one daily exceptional nature image to learning to identify cloud types and the weather they bring, or creating a record of nature spottings on daily walks with the dog.

    Clare Walker Leslie is a nationally known wildlife artist, author, and educator. She has been connecting people of all ages to nature using drawing, writing, and observation of the outdoors for more than 30 years. Her other books include the bestsellers Keeping a Nature Journal and The Nature Connection, as well as Nature Journal and Drawn to Nature. For more information visit www.portersquarebooks.com.

  • Sunday, March 20, 2:00 pm – Drawing and Observing Nature: From Cambridge to Africa and Back

    On Sunday, March 20, beginning at 2 pm, artist, author, and naturalist Clare Walker Leslie will talk about her travels to Africa, the Arctic, and other distant lands to draw wildlife in their natural habitats. Much of her preparation for these adventures begins with drawing specimens of those very same animals in the galleries at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, such as the polar bear, zebra, lion, sea birds, and whales. Her newest book, The Nature Connection: An Outdoor Workbook for Kids, Families, and Classrooms will be available for purchase and signing. Free with museum admission. Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045, hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu.

  • Thursdays, November 5 – December 17, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm – Drawing the Garden Landscape

    The Landscape Institute of Boston Architectural College offers a degree in Landscape Architecture, but for those who are interested, certain courses may be audited at a lower price, without receiving academic credits.  One such course is Drawing the Garden Landscape, taught by Clare Walker Leslie.  This module gives students an opportunity to gain confidence and experience in their drawing skills.  Classes focus on methods for using pencil, pen and ink, colored pencil, and watercolor pencil.  Particular attention will be paid to techniques for drawing individual plant specimens, group assemblages, plants in a landscape composition, perspective, walls, paths, water, buildings, and people in a garden setting.  The goal is to learn how to draw better so that clients (or your loving family) can more clearly understand proposed garden designs.  Emphasis will be on gardens in different seasons and conditions.  Attention will be paid to the specific needs of each student.  Several drawing sessions will be conducted outdoors.  Each student is required to produce and present a final drawing suitable for presentation to a client or inclusion in a portfolio.  The audit fee is $950 (compared to $1,380 if you wish to accrue credits).  Course number VS026.  For more information, log on to www.arboretum.harvard.edu/programs.