Paperbark Writer
Australian nature meets science and art
By Paula Peeters
Take this Book for a Walk:
A step-by-step guide to nature journaling
I’m very pleased to say that ‘Take this Book for a Walk: A step-by-step guide to nature journaling’ is now back in stock. This very popular book has been reprinted four times since its release in 2020. ‘Take this Book for a Walk’ is a much-loved ‘draw-and-write-in-the-book’ guide that’s great for kids and adults alike. Printed on recycled stock right here in Australia by Fast Proof Press in Nerang, Queensland.
Latest blog posts
Drawing birds in Adelaide
Last week I was in South Australia, visiting family and friends. I had also embarked on compiling some nature journals 'on a theme', including one on birds, and one on gardens. The garden journal I'll show you in a future post, but today's post is about the little...
Playing with watercolour pencils
Watercolour pencils are great for nature journaling, since they combine the accuracy of a pencil with the vibrant colour and flexibility of watercolour pigment. But I've found them tricky to use because the colour of the pencil applied dry to the paper can change a...
Dipping into the Murray-Darling wetlands
River Red Gums, raucous with white corellas screaming from their upper branches, their gnarled trunks splashed grey-and-cream, rise up out of a flooded wetland. The water is strewn with green wetland plants, and smeared yellow with floating pollen. Ducks and moorhens...
Happily evaporating in the mangroves
The mangrove kingfisher looked thin - its feathers were flattened against its body. It sort of drooped on the branch. Tail down, beak open, wings held away from the body. And see the wobbly end of its beak? That's not really what the bird looked like, that's me. Hands...
Wonders of Western Australia
This morning, I'm feeling a bit sad that I'm not in Freemantle, Western Australia. The opening sessions have just started at the Ecological Society of Australia's annual conference, with a buzz of ecologists: old and young; enthusiastic and weathered; well-published...
Binna Burra in the springtime
The forest is full of birdsong and insects are buzzing on high. The trees are flushing new growth: so much bright, young, green. It lights up the darkness of the rainforest. A white-browed scrubwren hops along the forest floor from twig to fallen twig. Close to me,...
The next ‘Tree hollows are animal homes’ design is here!
#3 Eucalypt Woodlands of south-eastern Australia
‘Tree hollows are animal homes’ is a series of designs inspired by the relationship between the many Australian animal species that use hollows and the trees that provide them.
This design is available on posters, art prints and other goodies from my Redbubble store.
Bulk orders of the detailed poster design can be arranged by emailing paula.peeters@paperbarkwriter.com Click here for wholesale prices.
A simplified version of this design is also available as a Organic Cotton Tea Towel.
Thanks to Prof Don Butler for providing the vegetation map and data.
Read more about this design here.
Previous designs in the series: ‘Tree hollows are animal homes’
#1 Eucalypt Open Forests, south-eastern Australia
#2 Eucalypt Tall Open Forests, south-eastern Australia
Click here for wholesale prices for educational poster ‘Tree hollows are animal homes #1 and #2’.
These designs are available on posters, prints and other goodies via my Redbubble store.
A walk in the mountain forests
My nature journal of Binna Burra, Beechmont and beyond
Discover the richness of the mountain forests through the playful, diverse and beautiful pages of Paula’s nature journal.
Paperback, 17 x 22.3 cm, 206 pages, full colour throughout with over 196 original illustrations. Printed in Australia on recycled paper.
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Organic cotton tea towels
Greeting cards
Magnets
Books
Redbubble store
Here you can purchase clothing, prints, posters and other goods with my designs. They’re printed on demand and shipped straight to you from Redbubble.
Buy selected garments through my Redbubble store and 25 % of the retail price will be donated to environmental and animal welfare charities
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Nature journaling workshop at Binna Burra; Photos by Renata Buziak
Escape…
Into the Wildworld, and discover The Kinship of All. Read Stories of the Wildworld.
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