Community Field Sketching Group
with Kristin Link
Join us for Community Field Sketching Group!!
Meet up to sketch together. No experience necessary! Local artist Kristin Link leads an informal art outing inspired by our natural surroundings. The group will meet and briefly introduce a theme for the day, then head outside to sketch together. Materials are available, but bring what you have to sketch with. If it is pouring rain, we will bring the outside world in and sketch indoors.
$15-$25, sliding scale
No need to register in advance - just show up!
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2024 Summer Schedule
June 11
Intro to nature journaling
July 9
Nature Journal Zines
august 6
Nature Journaling without drawing: Mixed Media Exploration with cyanotype, printmaking, and beyond
august 13
Watercolor plants and leaves
“I use Ms. Link’s suggestion of measuring far-off things with my pencil and then translating the length of those lines to paper to work. I draw slowly, looking from subject back to my paper again and again......”
“A practice that’s equal parts art and science, field sketching is used by researchers and artists to record their observations of nature, from waterways to winged creatures, mosses to mountaintops. Field sketching pairs illustrations with notes about weather, location, animal behavior and even the journal keeper’s mood that day, offering more context than a stand-alone photo. It’s also a powerful tool for travel, one that forces you to slow down, to take things in, to simply look. ”
Kristin Link
Kristin Link
Photo by Anders Link
I've been working as an artist and illustrator in Alaska since receiving a graduate certificate in Science Illustration from CSUMB in 2010. I work to create images that explain and tell stories about the natural world. I hope my art inspired others to look closer at their own surroundings, and that this action will instill knowledge and conservation.
My work can be found on interpretive signs, in books about national parks, and in museums. I've exhibited illustrations and field sketches at the Alaska State Museum and received grants from the Rasmuson Foundation and the Alaska State Council on the Arts. I live in a cabin outside McCarthy, Alaska on the edge of the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve.
Learn more about Kristin at www.kristinillustration.com and on follow on Instagram @linkkristin
