The Road to Beaver Park: Painting, Perception, and by Janice E. Kirk

learn how to paint, learn how to see--it will swap your lifestyles.
On Sabbatical, Janice includes her artwork pack and folding stool into the most very good landscapes on this planet: the canyons, deserts, mountains, and river valleys of the higher Southwest. Awed, surprised, encouraged, and humbled through what she unearths there, she sketches and paints en plein air. The relatives fishes, hikes, catches insects, chases lizards, digs fossils, photos, and stories vegetation. The year-long campout in nationwide Parks and wooded area carrier websites turns into a trip of the guts. The kinfolk grows to like the best way the nice outdoor is prepare. half travelogue, half common historical past, half box path in artwork appreciation, the writer documents her improvement as an artist as she learns to color and learns to work out. To her shock, a religious awakening sneaks up on her, and the adventure becomes anything more--a pilgrimage.

"Kirk's account of her family's 12 months camping out within the southwest is either an inspiring travelogue and well timed clarion name. the common school-aged baby spends approximately seven hours per day in entrance of a monitor and not more than thirty minutes per week outdoors in unstructured play. superbly written and joyfully illustrated, The highway to Beaver Park will assist you see nature with new eyes."
--Nancy Sleeth, writer, Almost Amish; dealing with Director, Blessed Earth

"It isn't any coincidence that this book's genesis used to be a sabbatical event, for Kirk's prose and sketches are the fruit of a chronic Sabbath. via slowing down and stripping away non-essentials, Janice and her kinfolk notice the transformative strength of leisure, silence, and contemplative time spent within the outdoor. during this she bargains a probable method to our ecological concern: ordinary settings motivate ask yourself, which finds good looks, which instills a reverence that ends up in stewardship."
--Paul Stonehouse, affiliate Professor experience schooling, eco-friendly Mountain College

Janice E. Kirk is writer and illustrator of The Christmas Redwood, A woodland Parable; Cherish The Earth: the surroundings and Scripture, and illustrator of Wild fit to be eaten crops of Western North America through D. R. Kirk. She has taught artwork, language arts, and track, together with voice, at Simpson college, Redding, California. in the course of a life of relatives camping out adventures within the American West, she sketched, painted, discovered nature's methods, and grew to cherish the great thing about the earth.