Zoom Workshop 130d: Autumn Abundance: Celebrate Fall in your Nature Journal

Autumn Abundance: Celebrate Fall in your Nature Journal

Session 4 of the Zoom Drawing Workshop Series · Botanical Sketchbook for All Seasons

Sunday, October 4, 2026: 1pm – 5pm ET

✏️ Instructors: Pam Thompson, Vern Fannin, &/ Sam McWilliams
✅ Level: All levels
🌱 Botanical Subject(s): Autumn-friendly plants you can easily forage near home, including:

•Colorful fall leaves in all stages—fresh, mottled, curling, and dried
•Fungi and mushrooms with distinct seasonal shapes
•Small gourds and decorative autumn fruits
•Rosehips, milkweed pods, and other seed pods
•Autumn flowers such as mums, zinnias, clematis, and goldenrod (even when fading!)
•Nuts and seeds
•Revisit plants from earlier seasons to observe their transformations
•Any local fall botanicals you gather from your yard, garden, forest, or neighborhood

Workshop Description

Celebrate fall’s abundance with our joyful and relaxed approach to botanical sketchbooking, perfect for documenting the changing landscape and deepening your nature journaling skills. Whether you’ve been with us since winter or are joining for the first time, this workshop is open to all. Each session stands beautifully on its own, and autumn is a wonderful place to begin.

🍁 A Meaningful, Relaxed Approach to Fall Journaling

Fall is a time of transition, perfect for reflecting in your sketchbook. Whether you follow one plant across the seasons, study the seed pods popping open in your garden, or explore the fungi tucked under fallen leaves, your sketchbook becomes a place to notice, appreciate, and celebrate the season’s final burst of beauty.

🍂 Why Autumn Is an Artist’s Dream Season

Fall offers some of the most varied and expressive botanical subjects of the entire year. From brilliant leaves to curling dried ones, sculptural seed pods, earthy mushrooms, and autumn blooms at every stage from fresh to fading, there’s endless inspiration for your sketchbook. And the best part? You don’t need hours and hours to create a beautiful fall journal page! Autumn plants have strong silhouettes, bold shapes, and dramatic textures that lend themselves beautifully to quick, satisfying sketches.

✏️ Skills You’ll Build in This Workshop

Capturing the Colors & Textures of Fall: Learn techniques for mottled color, layered hues, and subtle transitions found in autumn leaves and seed pods.
Drawing Shape Variation & Seasonal Decay: Explore sculptural forms like curling leaves, dried flowers, and split pods, excellent subjects for practicing proportion and details.
Inking for Texture & Expressive Line Work: Use line variation to add character, depth, and personality to fall botanicals.
Quick Sketching Techniques: Discover stress-free, time-friendly methods for sketching beautiful pages without long hours of drawing.
Designing Autumn Sketchbook Layouts: Compose pages with warm color notes, date stamps, plant names, and seasonal observations.

🍃 Join One Session or the Full Year

This workshop is one part of our four-session Botanical Sketchbook for All Seasons series. Each session is available individually, or you can enroll in all four at a discounted rate to stay motivated and creative throughout the year. (Enrolling in all four gives you unlimited access to the recordings so you can catch up before the next season’s session… Learn more