Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do – Making Art a Career - Morning/Afternoon

People always say you should do what you love, but most people end up doing something that isn’t quite their passion. Will that be you? This workshop is all about merging passion with profession through the arts. During this workshop you will explore making a love of the outdoors a career through scientific illustration, fine art, photojournalism, and writing. Husband-wife team Karen and Ret Talbot will share with you the way they have turned a passion for outdoor pursuits, natural history and conservation into a career through their art. You will learn some of the tips, tricks and strategies they both use to turn fieldwork into salable images and articles. If you have a camera and/or sketchbook, bring it, but no materials or previous expertise are required. If you love spending time in the outdoors and have any inclination towards art, this workshop could change your life.

Karen is an award-winning scientific illustrator and fine artist known for her illustrations and paintings of fishes, birds and botanicals. Ret is an award-winning photojournalist and science writer who frequently covers fisheries issues around the globe. Together, they travel the globe always looking for an opportunity to inspire conservation through appreciation of art that brings amazing species into books, magazines, blogs,art galleries, retail stores, and other places where people can come face-to-face with wilderness, wildness and the issues our ever-increasingly populated world faces on a daily basis.

Led by Karen Talbot and Ret Talbot