Note: for those of you who don't have suitable rocks or want to skip the labor... you can buy pigment ready to make into paint. I have some Ozark pigments and rocks at my shop (https://shop.wildozark.com), but also EarthPigments.com has a tremendous selection of synthetic and natural pigments to choose from. I order my titanium and primary yellow, green, and blue from here and can recommend them. If you're taking my course, the technique for making the paint using purchased pigments would be the same as using the washed pigments you learn how to make in my course.

Well, I should have just tried the Live feed from Skool to record my work on the owl painting this morning because my camera cut off again and recorded NOTHING of the process. The next time I work on it, that's what I'll do. So, no video for Open Studio today. I'll just update that course with the photo of what got done while no recording was happening, lol.

So, I decided to try the photo-to-video ai assist in my editing software to make an intro for my skool videos. While I still have a lot of reservations about ai in general, I do have to admit that I love this result and will most likely use it for every nature-related video I make from now on, lol.

If any of you are starting the nature journaling or doing the plant walks at home and found some things to share or ask for help id-ing, ... I made a community discussion category for that called "Nature Connections". It used to be the Zoom tab, and since I can only have so many discussion topics, I think this will be space better used with that title for the topic. It's 20*F here this morning and still windy. I'm not going to sit outside to do my nature journal entry this morning, lol! I have been doing my morning walks, but am not doing that this morning either. On Friday I pulled my back while cleaning out the inside of my car, so will give it a break until the weather warms back up. And while I did record my walk on Friday, I was angry at my husband at the time and vented about that throughout the entire video, hahaha, so not posting that one either until I can edit out my narration. The anger did, however, propel me a greater distance than I would ordinarily have gone! Not sure if I recommend that motivation or not, though...

Oops!!! I totally forgot about the chat today! Was busy covering plants.