HeyJaredDrawing the Natural World
Sharpen your pencil. Grab a pen. Explore botanicals, wild creatures, and insects as you draw along with me in graphite, ink, or colored pencil. (I hope you also like folklore and history!) Join anytime.
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- Jul 6, 2026
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Printable: White flowers in colored pencil (opens the original)
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Video: Pale flowers in colored pencil (opens the original)
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This week, next week, and what you’ll need (opens the original)
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Before we talk about art supplies, listen:Even years after you stop chasing it, your life’s dream may come and find you. It recently happened to me. I’m still not entirely sure I believe it.My mother was a writer and I grew up among great books. My favorite books were always about animals - horses, dogs, and the wild creatures who inhabit the fields, forests and skies. By age three, I was naughtily drawing my own illustrations in the margins to imitate what was printed on the page. That was the
Bonus Printables: Thinking in Layers (opens the original)
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Video: Draw the scarlet morning glory (opens the original)
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