Annalena — Artofzoo

The most exciting trend in nature art right now is the blend. Print your photo on watercolor paper and paint into the highlights. Use a digital tablet to add sketched lines over your wolf photograph. Carve the silhouette of your best bird shot into a linocut print. You don't have to choose between the lens and the brush. A Quiet Call to Action This weekend, I challenge you to go outside without a goal.

Leave the "Species Checklist" at home. Leave the Instagram grid out of your mind. Just take one tool—your camera, your sketchbook, or even just a stick to draw in the mud. artofzoo annalena

A perfectly sharp, clinically lit animal on a green background is a catalog image. A soft, moody shot of a lion in the rain with motion blur in the grass? That is a painting. Don't delete the blurry shots. Some of them are just impressionistic . The most exciting trend in nature art right now is the blend

Watch the way the light hits a squirrel’s tail. Notice how the moss grows in a perfect spiral on the north side of the oak. Listen to the crickets not as noise, but as a rhythm section for the setting sun. Carve the silhouette of your best bird shot