by Paula Peeters | Feb 23, 2019 | Beechmont Nature Journal, Letter from Beechmont, Nature journaling
Here’s some recent nature journal entries from the garden. Enjoy! Upcoming free nature journaling events: Woonoongoora Nature Journal Group Sat 9th March 2019 Nature Journaling workshop – Using colour, Mudgeerabah Sat 16th March 2019 For more details see...
by Paula Peeters | Feb 11, 2019 | Nature in Art, Nature journaling, Wildlife illustration
Thank you to everyone who entered the ‘name the species on the ESA 2018 bag design’ competition. Many high-quality entries were received, and I was most impressed with the species ID skills of the entrants. Special mentions go to: Eve Hayden and Gregg Muller for...
by Paula Peeters | Jul 26, 2018 | Nature journaling, Wildlife illustration
Winter field trips can be cold but exhilarating. This winter I had the good fortune to travel down to northern Victoria and southern New South Wales, to reacquaint myself with those landscapes under grey subdued skies. The trip was half work and half pleasure,...
by Paula Peeters | May 24, 2018 | Nature journaling
Meet Mujambi the lion, who lives at the Adelaide Zoo. I met him recently when I went to the Zoo to draw some of the animals. Mujambi is 13 years old, small for a lion, and the lioness eats his dinner when they are put in the same pen. It’s doubtful he would...
by Paula Peeters | Feb 15, 2018 | Events, Letter from Beechmont, Nature journaling
This place where I live has a million stories, maybe more. Everyday I glimpse another fragment of plot, perhaps meet another character. Last Sunday a Lewin’s honeyeater gave me a cook’s tour of her larder (the genders of this species look the same, so it...
by Paula Peeters | Jan 13, 2018 | Letter from Beechmont, Nature journaling, Wildlife illustration
We usually only glimpse the topknot pigeons flying high and fast overhead, a steady workmanlike beat of strong grey wings and a flash of pink beak. But last week they were in the treetops at Tullawallal. It’s the highest point of the forest near Binna Burra, crowned...
