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Learning to See: Tools and Accessories

Sketch of Mount Mansfield. Illustration: Courtesy of Clare Walker Leslie

AMC Outdoors, July/August 2003

A Nature Journal Toolbox

Clare:
8 1/2 x 11-inch, 92-page blank book
3 x 5-inch pad of notepaper in her pocket for quick sketches (she tapes these in her journal when she gets home)
Derwent watercolor pencils or Venus Spectracolor or Berol Prismacolor colored pencils
Knife for clipping branches and sharpening pencils
Black pen; technical pencil; eraser
Bird guide
Nona:
12 x 14-inch artist’s journal or smaller version for fanny pack
Cotman student field watercolor box
Black pen, hard and soft pencils, eraser, and pencil sharpener
Visine bottle for water, several pieces of paper towel

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Illustration: Courtesy of Clare Walker Leslie