About Robin
Robin Lee Carlson is a natural science illustrator and the author of The Cold Canyon Fire Journals. She builds careful observations of the natural world into deeper commentary on ecology and climate change, and her work centers on field sketching ecoreportage, living documentation of the ever-accelerating transformation of ecosystems by human activity. Her work has also appeared in The Common, the literary journal of Amherst College, and in Arnoldia, the magazine of the Harvard University Arboretum. She teaches online and in-person workshops that combine drawing, painting, and natural history.
Robin is one of the 2024 recipients of the Fireline Fellowship, part of the Long-Term Ecological Reflections Program in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon.
https://robinleecarlson.com/
https://www.instagram.com/anthropocenesketchbook/
Verebrate Pollinators
A Field Journal Sketching Experience with Robin Carlson
Part 1: Birds and Mammals – Monday, July 28, 2025 – 7 to 8:30pm (Eastern)
Location: Online via Zoom
Cost: $30 per session
The daVinci Pursuit is pleased to welcome illustrator and author Robin Carlson to our third series of online workshops. In this series of two workshops, we will combine drawing, painting, and natural science. The classes will weave scientific knowledge into accessible and engaging instruction, where students actively create stories in their own artwork.
Vertebrate Pollinators: Birds and Mammals
Robin Lee Carlson
In this workshop we will explore non-insect pollinators, with an overview of different species and how their interactions with flowers are different from insects’. We’ll talk about how flowers appeal to the senses of vertebrate pollinators, and strategies that the animals use to locate and make use of floral resources.
We will draw a Costa’s hummingbird and a lesser long-nosed bat, along with some of the flowers they visit. We’ll work in ink, watercolor, and colored pencil. At the end of each session, there will be time to ask questions and share your work and insights.
Registrants will be able to attend live online and will also have access to a recording of the workshop.
Made possible through the generous support of the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitiable Foundation
