Seattle Nature Journaling Club 2026

We live in a beautiful region! Dedicate some time outdoors wandering, learning, and drawing with Hammer & Hemlock.

This is not a drawing class! Nature Journaling is about exploring, focusing your attention on the natural world, and piquing your curiosity. No experience is required! Your instructors will gently guide your attention, provide background information about what we’re exploring that day, and share sketching and writing prompts. Every session will be slightly different as we adjust to the specific location, weather, and time of year. Come explore and embrace the childlike wonder of nature.

We will be exploring on uneven and often unpaved ground with slight inclines. All ages are welcome, but please, students under the age of 12 must bring a ticketed adult with them.

This class is for:

Scientists wanting to explore their creative side
Artists wanting to explore their scientific side
Nature lovers who want to capture the world using artistic & scientific drawing methods
People who don't consider themselves either scientist nor artist, but want to be more present in nature
People who like doing activities outside!

What to bring

Please bring your own sketchbook and tools. We recommend:

Mixed media or watercolor spiral-bound sketchbook
Selection of graphite pencils and/or ink pens
Colored pencils
Traveler’s sized watercolor palette
Water brush

Take note! Each day is at a different location, some that have additional paid requirements. We will endeavor to list additional entrance fees, but you are responsible for your own ticket for zoo or park entries.

Club Dates!

When checking out, pick your club date! If you selected a class pass, please choose the first date you plan to join us.

We will send emails out to everyone who registers confirming your dates as well as where to meet.

Pricing structure

We have a sliding scale pricing structure to welcome as many people as we can. We are a small business and heavily rely on ticket fees from our events to pay our rent and keep doing what we love to do. Please consider paying what you are able at this time.

Salmon: This tier is intended for friends, collaborators, co-conspirators, or current or former students.

Orca: This tier is for superheroes who are fans of our work and enable us to offer scholarships! Thank you <3

QTIBIPOC Narwhal Scholarship: We hope this option will allow people of marginalized identities to join who would not otherwise have been able to attend this experience.

We have options to select a 5-class pack or a 10-class pack. If you select these options, you save 10-15% off your ticket price and can come to your choice of Nature Journaling sessions in 2026! Don't you love the idea of spending more time outside?

Your Instructors

Rebecca Ann Jordan (they/any) is a speculative artist, art teacher, and author passionate about telling stories about the natural world and exploring alien ones. Using saturated traditional mediums, their work explores humans' complicated (and often mythologized) relationships with the natural world. RJ teaches art classes at Pratt Fine Arts Center, Push/Pull, Reclaim Clay Collective, The Fishbowl, and more. They are a Co-Founder of Hammer&Hemlock. In her free time she draws bugs, cuddles her cats, gardens, and makes weird stuff. See more and connect @beccaquibbles.

Rosie Pringle (they/she) is a Seattle-based artist, graphic designer, and chronic serial murderer of ink pens. Rosie is the Co-Founder of Hammer&Hemlock, which operates out of The Fishbowl. Themes in Rosie’s art include subversions of mythological and cultural archetypes, humanity’s relationship with Nature, meditations on modern mysticism, and rumination on loss, death, and grief. Their current preferred media and disciplines include ink, watercolor, alcohol marker, calligraphy, digital drawing, cartography, tessellation, block printing, and collage.