Below you'll find a video presentation showing examples of naturalists' sketches and journal pages through the centuries to inspire you to embark on your own sketchbook adventure! Be sure to check out the links below the video for further inspiration.

Resources Related to the Notebooks Presentation

Below you’ll find some resources that delve deeper into the topic of naturalists’ notebooks mentioned in the slideshow.

Books on historic explorers’ notebooks

• Explorers’ sketchbooks; The art of discovery and adventure
• Margaret Mee’s Amazon: The Diaries of an Artist Explorer
• Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis: One Woman’s Discovery of the Transformation of Butterflies and Insects
• John Muir’s Mountains of California
• John James Audubon’s Birds of America
• The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World
• The Journals of Lewis and Clark
• Lascaux Cave Paintings

Websites of living nature journalers, adventurers, artists, authors

• Marley Peifer
• John Muir Laws
• Amy Tan
• Tony Foster

Scientific illustration organizations

• Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
• Illustraciencia (courses in both Spanish and English)