Hiking with a sketchbook: videos that pause to notice a place

Pulenaz: a note beside the path

Pulenaz takes a small notebook on a woodland walk and stops where the trees open onto a field. She draws the dark line of trees first, leaving the field almost blank, then adds a note about sunlight reaching one corner while the rest lies in shade. After walking on she looks back: the same tree line now hides the bright patch that prompted the page.

The video moves from a view of the field to her hand and then back to the view. The drawing records a particular pause rather than every bend of the route. A few words make the changing light legible later without requiring a finished landscape painting.

Danni Green Corner: drawing what is nearby

Danni Green Corner stops beside a stone wall on a countryside hike and chooses a spray of leaves growing across the stones. She sketches the wall's horizontal joints first, then adds the leaves crossing those lines. A small wash of green distinguishes the plant from the grey wall, while a pencil note records where she stopped.

She turns the page toward the camera before returning to the path, so the viewer sees both the subject and the decisions that made it into the drawing. Pulenaz's field notes favor a quick written impression; Danni stays with one close subject and shows how the sketch develops.

Claire Giordano: painting outdoors

Environmental artist Claire Giordano makes outdoor watercolor classes and describes observing nature as central to her work. Her site links to her video channel and Adventure Art Academy, where lessons are filmed outside in changing locations.

References: Claire Giordano

Her work is a useful next stop for viewers who want to spend longer with paint and observation. The lessons have an instructional purpose, whereas Pulenaz’s short notebook pause keeps the emphasis on the outing.

Sources and attribution

1. Claire Giordano

   Claire Giordano: environmental art and outdoor classesPublication date not listed · Recorded Oct 29, 2026