Teenage Woodland Sketchbooks

I love the writing of Clare Walker Leslie, who wrote the books "Nature Drawing" and  "The Art of Field Sketching". Leslie's approach to wildlife art is to use drawing as "A Tool for Learning". To do this, she suggests keeping a sketchbook journal. This is, more or less, what I had been doing as a teenager as part of my biology and art studies. 

Here are some selected pages from my own Teenage Woodland Sketchbooks...