Discover the Art of Field Sketching by Kristin Link - ISBN: 9781643263793
Hardcover
Connect with nature: sketch your world, find your art.

Discover the Art of Field Sketching

Nature-Inspired Techniques for Pencil, Pen, and Watercolor

$47.63

  • Hardcover

    296 pages

  • Release Date

    19 May 2026

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Summary

A guide to the many ways of noticing, connecting with, and documenting the world around you, based on the renowned workshop that Kristin Link has been leading in remote Alaska for over a decade.

For over 15 years, artist and illustrator Kristin Link has taught everyone from children to experts to draw everything from a single acorn to a breathtaking mountain vista. Now her popular field sketching course is available as a guide that anyone can use.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9781643263793
ISBN-10:164326379X
Author:Kristin Link
Publisher:Workman Publishing
Imprint:Timber Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:296
Release Date:19 May 2026
Weight:840g
Dimensions:28mm x 237mm x 187mm
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Critics Review

“It’s really rather charming and, in a field where the author’s style will be the chief attraction, quite a winner.” –The Art Book Review“Discover the Art of Field Sketching is deeply personal, as Kristin invites us to explore her home region in Alaska through place-based exercises and stories of her art adventures. An all-around gem of a book!”–Rosalie Haizlett, author of Watercolor in Nature and Tiny Worlds of the Appalachian Mountains“A beautiful and thoughtfully curated guide to starting your own nature journaling practice, developing your journaling skills, and expanding your observer’s toolbox. Kristin inspires us to explore the wonder and beauty of the world, developing our ability to pay attention and connecting more deeply with the natural world.”–John Muir Laws, author of How to Teach Nature Journaling“Another valuable addition to the wonderful ways of field sketching and drawing Nature.”–Clare Walker Leslie, author of Keeping a Nature Journal and The Art of Field Sketching

About The Author

Kristin Link

Kristin Link’s art is rooted in curiosity and beauty, capturing the details of landscapes, wildlife, and seasonal changes. With a graduate certificate in science illustration from California State University, Monterey Bay, she combines storytelling with scientific precision. Her work has been featured in museum exhibits, fine art shows, periodical publications, interpretive education materials, and her own illustrated products.

For the past 15 years, Kristin has called Alaska home and lives in an off-the-grid cabin near McCarthy, surrounded by the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. Kristin has extensive experience in the backcountry and glaciated mountains of Alaska. From climbing Denali to guiding teenage students on wilderness pack-raft trips to skiing at -20 degrees Fahrenheit with her partner and dog on the Nizina River, she is always finding inspiration in the natural world and striving to share it with others through her art.

She has been hired to create art displayed inside National Park buildings and along scenic Alaska highways, to teach and help rural students create murals reflecting their local environment and subsistence culture, and provide original artwork for museums, galleries, and individuals. Kristin teaches field-sketching workshops, as well as joins undergraduate students on wilderness courses to teach science communication and field sketching.

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