I've had this on the Amazon wishlist for a while after a friend recommended it to me, but I didn't look at it sooner because I didn't want another person's sketchbook. However, Jude Siegel has done a nice job with a high-level, not super detailed or demainding, call to nature sketching and journaling. Her discussions of drawing, composition, watercolor are all helpful. The fact that she works in the Pacific Northwest where I live is a bonus too. This is well worth checking out at the library (as I did) and then buying a copy (as I did next.)

I especially liked her loose style, no painstaking details. And her warmup exercises, including "spirit drawing", trying to loosely grab the spirit/life/energy in a place before thumbnailing and then actually sketching.

Excellent exercises throughout; I'll be doing these on schedule this summer! ( )