Creative Nature Journal Tips for Artists and Poets
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Welcome nature lovers! 🌿
Join us for the Treeline Review Free Class: Creative Ways Create a Nature Journal on February 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM Pacific Time. 🌲📔
In this class, we'll explore creative ways to document your outdoor adventures and connect with nature through journaling, from painting and sketching to doodling and poetry.
Whether you're a seasoned nature journaler or just starting out, this class is perfect for all skill levels. 🎨✨
Don't miss this opportunity to immerse yourself in nature and learn new techniques to capture the beauty of the great outdoors.
Grab your journal and let's get creative together! 🌟
Meet the artists
Heidi Nisbett grew up in South Carolina and received a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Winthrop University in 2015. In her adult life, she began to find peace and clarity in the outdoors and formed an obsession with hiking and backpacking. In 2018 she thru hiked the Appalachian Trail, a 2,000 mile trail going from Georgia to Maine. She found inspiration in the landscapes along the way, keeping a sketchbook of watercolor paintings to record her memories. After her thru hike, she continued to hike and paint, since logging and additional 3,000 miles of backpacking including the Superior Hiking Trail, Pinhoti Trail, Foothills Trail, Allegheny Trail and parts of the Mountains to Sea Trail and Continental Divide Trail. Her artwork summarizes her adventures and serves as a love song to the landscapes she finds sacred. Oftentimes, the trail itself can be seen cutting through the painting, inviting the viewer to embark on their own journey into the mountains. She roots her paintings to their location and season by incorporating specific native flora that can be found there. In addition to being an artist, Heidi works as a backpacking guide for Blue Ridge Hiking Company. Heidi currently resides in Charlotte with her husband.
Sara or “Socks” is a Northern California based artist and avid outdoors person. She realized on her 2017 backpacking adventures that writing a daily journal entry wasn’t enjoyable, so she started doodling her journal entries instead. Now she doodles her skiing and snowboarding days along with her thru hiking adventures and casual days at home. Sara is a professional artist with a love for pikas, whimsy and dogs, you can follow her work on instagram @sockstomistic
Becca Downs (she/they) is a Denver-based writer, editor, and educator who earned her MFA from the Mile-High MFA program at Regis University. She’s a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and the author of Acid Rain Epithalamium (Beyond the Veil Press 2024). She’s also co-Editor-in-Chief of Switchback Books poetry press and a managing editor for Treeline Review. You can find her at beccadownswriting.com and on Instagram at @beccad___.