Jean Mackay – Painting Natural History Collections (Recording) – Free!

Date recorded: Friday, December 17, 2021
Medium: Ink & Watercolor

Museum and nature center specimens and online natural history collections are excellent sources of painting inspiration, especially in winter. Learn how to access the treasure trove of possibilities and paint along with artist Jean Mackay as she combines specimens from several collections to create a work of art.

Jean Mackay is an artist, educator, and naturalist. She has been keeping an artist journal for more than nearly 20 years a way to study and share the beauty and diversity of nature, as well as to record the art of everyday living. Working in all kinds of settings, from tide pools to farm fields to her own backyard, Jean’s journals reflect a keen eye for detail and profound sense of wonder. Jean teaches at the Hog Island Audubon Camp in Maine and at the Art School of Columbia County in New York. Her blog, Drawn In, shares the ordinary, yet extraordinary things that she encounters close to home and farther afield. www.jeanmackayart.com