Unleash Your Wild Creativity
Create Wildlife Art and Cultivate a Life-Changing Art Practice
That's Yours Forever
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October 2025
Become a confident, courageous,
and curious Wildlife artist
Master the art of creating nature-inspired work without
overwhelm, fear, or comparison
We are born to create - that is what we are called to do,
in every fibre of our wild-hearted bodies.
I want you to KNOW you are inherently worthy of investing in your creativity.
And that it does not need to be through grand, gallery worthy pieces of art.
Your sketchbook is where the real magic is.
In The Wild Sketchbook we honour the wild in you, we honour the wild beings we share this world with, and we make ridiculously meaningful art between the covers of a sketchbook.
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October 2025
$697 usd
Now is the perfect time to honour that wild creativity inside you with an immersive program designed to grow with you for years to come.
The Wild Sketchbook
Real Time Video Tutorials | Comprehensive eBooks with prompts | Community
All images on this page are from tutorials available inside!
The Wild Sketchbook is a comprehensive wildlife art program that combines technical skill-building with mindful creative practice.
Inside, you'll receive
🌿 seven in-depth eBooks with prompts to work through that integrate artistic fundamentals with mindset development
🌿 two extensive tutorial libraries covering both monochromatic and colour techniques across multiple mediums
🌿 three progressive wildlife projects that build your skills step-by-step and
🌿 a unique framework—the Wild-Hearted Artist's Ecosystem—that nurtures your creative practice through curiosity, compassion, courage, connection, and consciousness.
This isn't just about learning to draw animals; it's about developing a sustainable, joy-filled creative practice that honors both your wild subjects and your own artistic journey.
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October 2025
$697 usd
This course is rich with inspiration, information and valuable ritual.
It helps you to create a space for yourself to capture glorious wildlife in various media
through Natalie’s guidance and tutorials.
It is well-planned, meticulously organized and beautifully executed.
~ Treava
Let me show you how to create a sanctuary in your sketchbook for your curiosity.
The Wild Sketchbook provides a beautiful, inspiring framework for your experimentation and play, guiding your evolution into the confident, compassionate artist your creativity is calling you to be.
You can create a meaningful art practice in as little as 15 minutes per day.
All between the covers of a sketchbook
One of the most valuable things you can do for yourself
is to carve out space for the very tangible self care that creating for
play and curiosity and development of ideas provides. These don’t have to be grand gestures.
A sketchbook practice is safe, sustainable, and super fun!
And you, my friend
Are so worth that
Here’s the thing
A mindful creative practice doesn't just help you make beautiful art—it builds resilience, strength, and groundedness that extends into all areas of your life.
In The Wild Sketchbook, we:
🍃 Talk about the real emotional journey of being an artist, while learning and practicing the fundamentals of art making
🍃 Walk through mindset shifts that transform creative blocks into opportunities, while growing our observation and hand-eye coordination skills
🍃 Build self-trust, compassion, and a grounded artistic voice, while navigating the inevitable messy middle of drawings and paintings
🍃 Create a sustainable art practice that fits YOUR life and grows with you for years to come
We create beautiful wildlife art that connects you deeply to the natural world AND to your art practice.
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This invitation is for you
🦉 Create a sustainable creative practice that puts your joy and growth first
🦉 Celebrate the courage it takes to show up for your creativity consistently
🦉 Be supported by a community that understands and encourages your journey
🦉 Explore wildlife art with practical techniques AND mindset guidance
🦉 Develop your unique artistic voice at your own perfect pace
🦉 Have a creative sanctuary you can return to again and again as you grow
And best of all?
Life-time access gives you the freedom to engage with the material on YOUR schedule, without ever feeling behind.
What’s Inside
The Wild Sketchbook is unlike any other art course.
The focus is on you, not on the artwork outcomes.
The core of this course is the transformative and empowering elements, delving into the mindset and personal growth aspects that complement the technical skills of drawing and painting.
The course not only improves artistic abilities but also enhances overall
well-being and connection with nature.
We concentrate on two aspects:
Mindset and Empowerment
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Art Tutorials
Art Tutorials + technical skills
A comprehensive library of wildlife art instruction across multiple mediums:
50+ Hours of Step-by-Step Video Tutorials - From beginner basics to advanced techniques
Monochromatic Library - Master graphite fundamentals and sketching with a single coloured pencil techniques
Chromatic Palette Library - Explore coloured pencil, watercolour, acrylic, oil, and mixed media approaches
Core Wildlife Art Skills - Shape recognition, form understanding, value control, composition planning, and detail management
Three Complete Technical Skill Building Projects - Build your skills progressively through guided, real-time demonstrations
The heart of this course lies in training your eye, hand,
and wild-heart to work in harmony.
Mindset and Empowerment
A proven framework that transforms how you approach your wildlife art, building confidence and creating a sustainable practice:
The Wild-Hearted Artist's Ecosystem - A practical system that integrates curiosity, compassion, courage, connection, and consciousness into your creative process
Overcoming Creative Obstacles - Specific techniques to move past perfectionism, fear, and artistic blocks using guided exercises
Sustainable Practice Builders - Templates for creating 15-minute daily sketching routines that fit realistically into your life
Connection Techniques - Step-by-step methods to deepen your observation skills and relationship with wildlife subjects
Confidence-Building Tools - Including the Artist's Confidence Toolkit with actionable exercises and frameworks
Reflection Practices - Creative Check-in prompts that track your progress and celebrate growth
Each Week at a glance
Our Start Here guide will help you determine your ideal pace and starting point.
Each week seamlessly integrates mindset development with technical art skills:
Week 1:
Curiosity • Line & Shape
Mindset Manual: Cultivating observational wonder & overcoming creative fear
Technical Focus: Shape recognition, line quality, gesture drawing
Key Tutorials: Basic wildlife shapes, pencil control techniques
Projects: Begin animal shape studies & contour drawing practice, & first anatomical drawings (Project 1 begins)
Week 2:
Compassion • Form & Proportion
Mindset Manual: Self-compassion practices & perfectionism navigation
Technical Focus: 3D form understanding, proportional relationships
Key Tutorials: Adding dimension to shapes, creating volume with line
Projects: Form studies & Gang-gang Cockatoo preliminary work (Project 2 begins)
Week 3:
Courage • Value & Contrast
Mindset Manual: Resilience building & courage-centred approaches
Technical Focus: Creating depth through value, understanding light sources
Key Tutorials: Value scales, creating form with shading, tone relationships
Projects: Value studies & creative arrangement work (Project 3 begins)
$697 USD
🍃 6 month payment plan available 🍃
Week 4:
Connection • Composition
Mindset Manual: Deepening subject relationship & creative flow states
Technical Focus: Composition principles, visual pathways, balance
Key Tutorials: Creating dynamic wildlife compositions, negative space
Projects: Composition studies & advancing all three projects
Week 5:
Consciousness • Detail, Focus & Edges
Mindset Manual: Intentional practice & goal-setting frameworks
Technical Focus: Detail management, focal point creation, edge control
Key Tutorials: Creating hierarchy through detail, lost and found edges
Projects: Detail studies & advancing all three projects
Week 6:
Congruence • Colour
Mindset Manual: Authentic expression & alignment with values
Technical Focus: Colour theory for wildlife, temperature relationships
Key Tutorials: Colour mixing, harmony
Projects: Colour studies
Week 7:
Consolidation
Mindset Manual: Integration practices & sustainable creative habits
Technical Focus: Bringing all elements together cohesively
Plus
Weekly workbooks, podcasts, master studies, guest sketchbook artists,
Q&A’s in each live, an incredible community space,
and so much more!
Amazing class that teaches you the most amazing drawing skills.
Love the skills Natalie teaches in a calm and soothing manner making learning fun and relaxing.
Beautiful blend of healing art and artistic expression.
She assisted me with finding the courage to express creativity via artful hand and study.
~ Cheri
A peak inside the Week 1 eBook
$697 USD
🍃 6 month payment plan available 🍃
The Wild Sketchbook is brought to you by the wild heart (and mind) of a wildlife and nature obsessed artist.
Hello, that’s me, Natalie.
I have been working in sketchbooks since coming back to art in my mid 40’s, and continue to learn and grow through working in this profoundly simple, but gentle and spacious place.
My sketchbook habit grounds me, inspires me, and helps me grow, as both
an artist and human being.
Come create your own haven in this nurturing, inspiring program.
Kind words from course students
I love that I joined.
This course,by Natalie has been a way, not just to improve my wildlife portraits, but given me a practice to work on a sketchbook as a form of self care. I. Hoping to translate it into human portrait work as well. Her gentleness and calming voice is just the art break I need to continue my artistic journey.
Tamara
I've learned so much.
Identifying what I enjoyed 'most' about the course would be impossible. This course is a wholistic approach to the actual Archetypal definition of Artist. Other courses I have taken have focused only on the methods/mediums/and supporting supplies. This course mimics showing up the first day of your new career, clueless to all aspects of success, and being given all the tools necessary for stepping into your new title...Artist. The true meaning of Artist. Thank you, Natalie.
Deborah
thank you, thank you, thank you
I love your course and all that you added to it. It’s way more than just a how to create art. It’s a deeper look into yourself and many of the beliefs you have and provides paths to change the mind thoughts that do not serve you to ones that enable you. Shifting from negative to accepting, wonder and curiosity. For me, this really is life changing.
Yvette
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$697 USD
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✺ Frequently asked questions ✺
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While this is a self-paced program, you're never alone on this journey! You'll have access to:
Our supportive community where you can share work and ask questions
Three special co-sketching sessions where we'll create together and I'll answer questions
Detailed tutorials and guides designed to anticipate common challenges
The option to email me directly if you encounter any significant obstacles
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Absolutely! The Wild Sketchbook is specifically designed to meet you where you are. If you're a complete beginner, the Start Here guide will direct you to foundational content that builds confidence from the ground up. If you're more experienced, you can skip ahead to more advanced techniques. The focus on both mindset and technique means artists at every level find value—from those who have never drawn before to those with years of experience looking to deepen their practice or overcome creative blocks.
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Not at all! If you can hold a pencil, you can begin this journey. The Wild Sketchbook focuses on building observational skills and confidence through guided practice. We start with simple shapes and forms before moving to more complex techniques. Many students are surprised by how quickly they progress when given the right guidance and a supportive environment that addresses both technical skills and the mindset aspects of creating art.
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Co-sketching sessions are live online gatherings where we create together in real time. The first session will serve as an orientation to help you navigate the course and answer initial questions. During these sessions, I'll demonstrate techniques while you work alongside me on your own projects. These are relaxed, supportive environments where you can ask questions, share your work if you wish, and connect with fellow wild-hearted artists. If you can't attend live, recordings will be added to your course library.
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The essential supplies are simple and accessible:
A sketchbook (any size you're comfortable with)
Graphite pencils (a few different grades if possible)
An eraser
A pencil sharpener
While we explore other mediums like colored pencil, watercolor, acrylics, and oils in the tutorials, you can complete the entire course using just graphite if you prefer. The Start Here book contains detailed supply recommendations, but I always encourage using what you already have to begin.
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The beauty of this program is its flexibility. I recommend setting aside at least 15-20 minutes a day for your practice, but even just three focused sessions per week will create momentum. Some students dive in for hours when inspiration strikes, while others consistently carve out small pockets of time. What matters most is consistency—showing up regularly for your creativity—not the duration of each session.
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Yes! Our community is in an app called Circle, designed specifically for course communities like this, where we can interact without ads or other distractions. Participants are wonderfully kind, and it is a really lovely place to connect! I am in there all the time too, giving feedback and all sorts of other fun things!
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Forever! Your one-time payment grants you lifetime access to not only all current content but all future updates and versions of The Wild Sketchbook. As the program evolves and expands over time, you'll automatically receive access to new content, tutorials, and resources without any additional cost.
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Our learning platform is intuitive and user-friendly, but should you encounter any technical issues, help is just an email away. We provide comprehensive technical support to ensure your experience is smooth and enjoyable.
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I would never want you to be unhappy! If for any reason you’re not satisfied with your purchase, contact me within the first 7 days and I will give you a full refund.
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If you have any other questions that aren't answered here, please don't hesitate to reach out! I'm happy to help you determine if The Wild Sketchbook is the right fit for your creative journey. There is a form to fill out below, and I will get back to you very shortly!
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