Date recorded: Friday, April 10, 2026
Level: All levels welcome
Medium: Watercolor
Presentation Type: Talk
Join Jean Mackay as she opens her watercolor sketchbooks and shares her lively approach to nature journaling throughout the year. Come away with ideas, inspiration, and plenty of tips to get you started or keep you motivated to sketch regularly. This presentation will include Q&A and Jean’s downloadable What to Sketch handout.
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Jean Mackay is an artist, educator, and naturalist. She has been keeping an artist journal for more than nearly 20 years as 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 in upstate New York, Jean’s watercolors reflect a keen eye for detail and profound sense of wonder. She is the author/illustrator of The Nature Explorer’s Sketchbook (2020). Jean teaches online and in-person classes and offers immersive workshops nationally and internationally. She has been an instructor with Winslow Art Center since 2020.



























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