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Art techniques + Theory
- How to draw anything – learn sketching for beginners
- Loose but precise: Expressive and simple floral paintings in watercolor – new course
- How to make a bamboo pen for sketching
- Adding color and textures to botanical sketches – loose but precise
- The properties of color + how to mix colors
- How to draw plants – quick botanical sketching
- Cherry blossom sketches
- Sketching spring flowers in ink and watercolor
- Painting clouds and skies – new course out now!
- Painting clouds and the sky – my current approach
- Adding shadows to sketches + choosing shadow colors
- Announcement: Sketching Fundamentals is open for enrollment
- Introduction to Botanical Sketching – new online class out now
- Taking time for drawing – Sketchbook Fundamentals is back!
- Capturing the impression of a place quickly – basic landscape sketching tips
- How to get better at drawing | 5 tips + a pep talk
- How to put together a mini palette with limited colors
- How to create three dimensional realistic drawings
- Sketching Fundamentals class is out now!
- My favorite colors for landscape sketching
- How to tell apart warm and cool colors – Color theory tips
- How to mix interesting neutrals and greys with watercolor
- Adding color to sketchbook pages – Sketchbook Composition
- Layout Elements for sketchbook composition
- Sketchbook Composition and Layout
- Sketchbook composition and arranging elements on the page
- Mixing greens: A look at different combinations with watercolor greens
- How I use greens in landscape sketching
- Layout ideas for sketchbook pages
- How to get vibrant mixes using the right primary colors with watercolor
- How to get better mixes with watercolor and avoid muddy colors
- Setting up a custom watercolor palette for sketching
- 6 things that made my art better in 2019
- Following the brush
- Color mixing – How I test colors and make color studies
- A list of nature sketching prompts so you never run out of topics
- Nature Journaling – Drawing Ideas For Autumn
- The beginner’s guide for getting started with watercolor painting – part 2
- Painting The Sky And Clouds – Techniques And Tips
- How to set up your watercolor palette – basic tips
- How To Paint Butterflies
- Dip Nib And Fountain Pen Sketching – Comparing Steel Nibs And My Lamy Pen
- Nature Journaling – Drawing Ideas For Spring
- How To Paint Clouds And The Sky – Learn to Paint Clouds in Watercolor (new class)
- How To Draw Birds – 5 Tips For Better Bird Drawings
- A Free Online Sketchbook Workshop: Sketchbook Revival
- How To Draw Birds – Learn Basic Techniques For Drawing & Painting Birds (New Class)
- How To Paint A Great Tit In Watercolor – Bird Painting (Video Tutorial)
- How To Get Started With A New Sketchbook
- How To Paint A Fieldfare In Watercolor – Bird Painting (Video Tutorial)
- Nature Journaling Ideas For Winter – New Class
- Different Sketchbook Styles – Methods For Observing And Drawing In Your Nature Journal
- Getting Started With Nature Journaling: Practical Aspects for Sketching Outside (Part 3)
- How To Start A Nature Journal – Sketchbook Techniques For Nature – New Class
Book reviews
Creative Business
- How I deal with burnout as an artist
- How AI is stealing your art
- A fresh, non-commercial approach to social media? What I think about Mastodon as an artist
- Quitting social media again (for good) – Good-bye Twitter
- One year after I quit social media – Q&A pt.2: Friends & Family, Finding Focus, Learning Online, Art Communities
- One year after I quit social media – Q&A pt.1: Art Business, Marketing, Audience Building
- One year without social media and a question
- Why I quit social media
Creativity
- Nature Sketchbook giveaway and a 5-year blog anniversary!
- Keep it simple – Tips for a stress-free sketchbook practice
- How I deal with burnout as an artist
- 4 easy tips for your sketchbook practice | how to keep sketching
- Why you don’t need another art tutorial to make better art
- A fresh, non-commercial approach to social media? What I think about Mastodon as an artist
- How I balance my time as a working artist
- Starting a sketchbook practice – overcoming fear
- Sketching Fundamentals class is out now!
- Looking back on 2021 and my plans for 2022
- What studying nature and sketching do for my mental health
- How to get started with birding
- Why watch birds – why you should start birding
- Quitting social media again (for good) – Good-bye Twitter
- How to stay positive and enjoy nature during the pandemic
- Starting (or rekindling) the creative process – your creative inventory
- One year after I quit social media – Q&A pt.2: Friends & Family, Finding Focus, Learning Online, Art Communities
- The importance of art in difficult times
- Sketching nature at home in unusual times
- 6 things that made my art better in 2019
- Following the brush
- Why you don‘t need new art supplies
- What happens when we observe nature
- How to build creative habits and overcome resistance
- Why I quit social media
- Learn Nature Journaling with my online classes
- Art And Life Lessons From Leonardo Da Vinci
- How To Make Sketching A Regular Habit
- How To Paint Clouds And The Sky – Learn to Paint Clouds in Watercolor (new class)
- A Free Online Sketchbook Workshop: Sketchbook Revival
- How To Draw Birds – Learn Basic Techniques For Drawing & Painting Birds (New Class)
- How To Get Started With A New Sketchbook
- Drawing Ideas For The Winter Months
- Nature Journaling Ideas For Winter – New Class
- Different Sketchbook Styles – Methods For Observing And Drawing In Your Nature Journal
- Getting Started With Nature Journaling: Practical Aspects for Sketching Outside (Part 3)
- Getting Started With Nature Journaling: Assembling Your Sketching Toolkit – Choosing Pens, Watercolors and Colored Pencils (Part 2)
- Getting Started With Nature Journaling: Choosing a Sketchbook (Part 1)
- How a nature journal can help you to experience nature and get better at observing and drawing
- How To Start A Nature Journal – Sketchbook Techniques For Nature – New Class
- Starting new habits
Demos + Tutorials
- My grandma’s fountain pen | sketching with a vintage Montblanc
- Quick Tips for painting birds
- How to draw anything – learn sketching for beginners
- Loose but precise: Painting an iris
- Kremer Pigments Landscape palette: a review + painting demo
- How to make a bamboo pen for sketching
- Adding color and textures to botanical sketches – loose but precise
- How to draw plants – quick botanical sketching
- Cherry blossom sketches
- Sketching spring flowers in ink and watercolor
- How to paint fluffy clouds in watercolor
- Announcement: Sketching Fundamentals is open for enrollment
- Sketching seedpods and planning a native wildflower balcony
- Taking time for drawing – Sketchbook Fundamentals is back!
- Finishing field sketches at home
- A day of field sketching – wild orchid fever!
- Morning landscape sketch with a limited palette
- How to create three dimensional realistic drawings
- Sketching Fundamentals class is out now!
- My favorite colors for landscape sketching
- Folk Tale Landscapes – Trees in the winter sun (#8)
- How to get started with sketching birds
- Folk Tale Landscapes – House in the woods (#7)
- Drawing a raven in ink
- Sketching a duck in ink
- Folk Tale Landscapes – Light and shadow (#6)
- Folk Tale Landscapes – A silent place (#5)
- How to draw tree shapes
- Sketching summer flowers
- Folk Tale Landscapes – Church Ruins (#4)
- Sketching a hoopoe (video)
- Folk Tale Landscapes – Autumn Fields (#3)
- Adding color to sketchbook pages – Sketchbook Composition
- Painting a hummingbird
- Folk Tale Landscapes – Light-Filled Forest (#2)
- Sketching a lapwing in watercolor
- Sketching a nuthatch in ink and watercolor
- Folk Tale Landscapes #1 – Dark Trees in Gouache
- Painting a Blue Jay – Watercolor Demonstration
- More mushroom sketching
- Autumn forest: Gouache landscape painting tutorial
- Nature sketching session: birds, mushrooms and a landscape
- Landscape with a tall tree – gouache landscape tutorial
- Sketching a Russian Bear moth in watercolor – video tutorial
- Sketching a green hairstreak butterfly – painting iridescent colors
- Sketching a swallowtail butterfly – video
- Sketching a monarch butterfly – painting tutorial
- Forest grass landscape painting with gouache (video tutorial)
- Mountain Stream Landscape Watercolor Tutorial
- Sketching a hare in watercolor (video)
- Painting a coast scene in watercolor and gouache + bee eater tutorial (video)
- Painting a winter landscape in gouache
- Painting a goldfinch in watercolor
- Painting a barn owl in watercolor
- Sketching the Cornwall Coast – gouache painting tutorial
- Sketching fieldfares in ink and watercolor
- A kingfisher painting: an encounter turned into a sketch
- Sketching a puffin & a thank you!
- Seagull sketches (video)
- Video: Painting a finch in watercolor
- Sketching Birds in Watercolor (Video Tutorial)
- How to make your own sketchbook – DIY bookbinding
- How To Paint A Great Tit In Watercolor – Bird Painting (Video Tutorial)
- How To Paint A Fieldfare In Watercolor – Bird Painting (Video Tutorial)
Digital Minimalism
- How I deal with burnout as an artist
- How AI is stealing your art
- Why you don’t need another art tutorial to make better art
- A fresh, non-commercial approach to social media? What I think about Mastodon as an artist
- Quitting social media again (for good) – Good-bye Twitter
- One year after I quit social media – Q&A pt.2: Friends & Family, Finding Focus, Learning Online, Art Communities
- One year after I quit social media – Q&A pt.1: Art Business, Marketing, Audience Building
- One year without social media and a question
- Why I quit social media
Drawing
- My grandma’s fountain pen | sketching with a vintage Montblanc
- Nature Sketchbook giveaway and a 5-year blog anniversary!
- How to draw anything – learn sketching for beginners
- The life of a poppy flower
- How to make a bamboo pen for sketching
- 4 easy tips for your sketchbook practice | how to keep sketching
- How to draw plants – quick botanical sketching
- Cherry blossom sketches
- Sketching at the zoo
- Announcement: Sketching Fundamentals is open for enrollment
- Introduction to Botanical Sketching – new online class out now
- Taking time for drawing – Sketchbook Fundamentals is back!
- Sketchbook Tour Summer 2022 – small collections, wildflowers, slow drawing
- Back again: new plans, upcoming classes and thoughts about the perfectionist brain
- How to get better at drawing | 5 tips + a pep talk
- How to create three dimensional realistic drawings
- Sketching Fundamentals class is out now!
Drawing Birds
- Quick Tips for painting birds
- Sketching at the zoo
- Sketching Fundamentals class is out now!
- Wildlife and Plant Illustrations | New watercolor paintings from my portfolio
- What studying nature and sketching do for my mental health
- How to get started with sketching birds
- How to get started with birding
- Why watch birds – why you should start birding
- Corvid Nut Gathering Techniques
- Drawing a raven in ink
- Sketching a duck in ink
- Nature Journal – Drawing ideas for summer – new class
- Sketching a hoopoe (video)
- Painting a hummingbird
- Sketching a lapwing in watercolor
- Sketching a nuthatch in ink and watercolor
- Painting a Blue Jay – Watercolor Demonstration
- Winter Sketchbook Tour (January/February 2021) – Birds and more!
- Nature sketching session: birds, mushrooms and a landscape
- Observing birds of prey and sketching bird silhouettes
- Painting a coast scene in watercolor and gouache + bee eater tutorial (video)
- Painting a goldfinch in watercolor
- Painting a barn owl in watercolor
- New bird painting tutorials
- Sketchbook Tour: My sketchbook in March 2020
- Sketching fieldfares in ink and watercolor
- A kingfisher painting: an encounter turned into a sketch
- Sketching a puffin & a thank you!
- Seagull sketches (video)
- Video: Painting a finch in watercolor
- Sketching Birds in Watercolor (Video Tutorial)
- My Sketchbook in May 2019
- Nature Journaling – Drawing Ideas For Spring
- My Sketchbook In April 2019
- How To Draw Birds – 5 Tips For Better Bird Drawings
- A Free Online Sketchbook Workshop: Sketchbook Revival
- My Sketchbook In March 2019
- How To Draw Birds – Learn Basic Techniques For Drawing & Painting Birds (New Class)
- How To Paint A Great Tit In Watercolor – Bird Painting (Video Tutorial)
- My Sketchbook in February 2019
- How To Paint A Fieldfare In Watercolor – Bird Painting (Video Tutorial)
- Common European Birds – An Ongoing Painting Project
Gouache
- Folk Tale Landscapes – Light-Filled Forest (#2)
- Folk Tale Landscapes #1 – Dark Trees in Gouache
- Landscape Painting Sketchbook Tour – Autumn 2020
- Autumn forest: Gouache landscape painting tutorial
- Landscape with a tall tree – gouache landscape tutorial
- How To Paint Quick Landscapes – my approach for landscape sketching
- Sketchbook Tour – Plein Air Landscape Painting
- Forest grass landscape painting with gouache (video tutorial)
- Mountain Stream Landscape Watercolor Tutorial
- Painting a coast scene in watercolor and gouache + bee eater tutorial (video)
- Sketchbook Techniques for Gouache – How To Get Started With Gouache Paint
- Painting a winter landscape in gouache
- Sketchbook Tour: My sketchbook in March 2020
- Sketching the Cornwall Coast – gouache painting tutorial
Illustration
Ink Drawing
- How to make a bamboo pen for sketching
- How to draw plants – quick botanical sketching
- Sketching spring flowers in ink and watercolor
- How I use fountain pens with colored ink for sketching
- Drawing a raven in ink
- My favorite drawing tools right now
- Sketching a duck in ink
- Sketching a nuthatch in ink and watercolor
Landscape Painting
- My grandma’s fountain pen | sketching with a vintage Montblanc
- Quick Tips for painting birds
- I’m very moved, thank you all!
- Nature Sketchbook giveaway and a 5-year blog anniversary!
- The last echoes of summer – sketching dahlias and borage
- Keep it simple – Tips for a stress-free sketchbook practice
- Sketchbook Tour Summer 2023 – flowers, landscapes
- How to draw anything – learn sketching for beginners
- Back from my summer break – slow travel sketching, upcoming courses, finding your own pace
- Loose but precise: Painting an iris
- Loose but precise: Expressive and simple floral paintings in watercolor – new course
- Kremer Pigments Landscape palette: a review + painting demo
- The life of a poppy flower
- How to make a bamboo pen for sketching
- How I deal with burnout as an artist
- 4 easy tips for your sketchbook practice | how to keep sketching
- Sketchbook Tour Spring 2023 – flowers, travel sketching, landscapes
- My mini travel sketching kit | lightweight portable watercolor gear
- Adding color and textures to botanical sketches – loose but precise
- The properties of color + how to mix colors
- How to draw plants – quick botanical sketching
- Cherry blossom sketches
- Sketching spring flowers in ink and watercolor
- How I use fountain pens with colored ink for sketching
- Sketching at the zoo
- How to paint fluffy clouds in watercolor
- Painting clouds and skies – new course out now!
- Sketchbook Tour Winter 2022/23 – Botanical studies, landscapes, clouds
- My current sketching palette – changes to my palette (March 2023)
- Painting clouds and the sky – my current approach
- Adding shadows to sketches + choosing shadow colors
- How AI is stealing your art
- Announcement: Sketching Fundamentals is open for enrollment
- Why you don’t need another art tutorial to make better art
- Wild European Orchids – A new illustration series
- Wrapping up the year + my plans for 2023
- Sketchbook Tour Autumn 2022 – Architecture, Botanical Garden, Flowers in November
- A fresh, non-commercial approach to social media? What I think about Mastodon as an artist
- How I balance my time as a working artist
- Introduction to Botanical Sketching – new online class out now
- Sketching seedpods and planning a native wildflower balcony
- Taking time for drawing – Sketchbook Fundamentals is back!
- Sketchbook Tour Summer 2022 – small collections, wildflowers, slow drawing
- Back again: new plans, upcoming classes and thoughts about the perfectionist brain
- A much needed summer break
- Capturing the impression of a place quickly – basic landscape sketching tips
- Finishing field sketches at home
- A day of field sketching – wild orchid fever!
- Sketchbook Tour Spring 2022 – spring green, orchids, missing insects
- Seasonal palette setups – changing palette colors through the seasons
- Starting a sketchbook practice – overcoming fear
- Sketching orchids in the field
- Spring time in my sketchbook – Painting apple blossoms
- What do you want to see more of?
- How to get better at drawing | 5 tips + a pep talk
- How to put together a mini palette with limited colors
- Morning landscape sketch with a limited palette
- Sketchbook Tour Winter/Spring 2022: trees, architecture and spring plants
- How to create three dimensional realistic drawings
- Sketching Fundamentals class is out now!
- Finally completed filming the new class + a question
- Winter walks – grebes, badger tracks, and a mill-wheel
- What would you like to see in a foundational drawing class?
- My favorite colors for landscape sketching
- Prints of my work available soon
- Wildlife and Plant Illustrations | New watercolor paintings from my portfolio
- How I use colored pencils for sketching
- Folk Tale Landscapes – Trees in the winter sun (#8)
- Sketchbook Tour Winter 2021/22: More local flora studies + landscapes
- Looking back on 2021 and my plans for 2022
- What studying nature and sketching do for my mental health
- How to get started with sketching birds
- How to get started with birding
- Why watch birds – why you should start birding
- Sketchbook Tour Fall ’21: Detailed nature studies (plants, birds, bats) | part 2
- Sketchbook Tour Fall 2021: Detailed nature studies (orchids, butterflies) | part 1
- Corvid Nut Gathering Techniques
- Folk Tale Landscapes – House in the woods (#7)
- Drawing a raven in ink
- My favorite drawing tools right now
- How to tell apart warm and cool colors – Color theory tips
- Sketching a duck in ink
- My updated sketching palette in 2021
- Folk Tale Landscapes – Light and shadow (#6)
- Sketchbook Tour Summer 2021
- The most beautiful moments and letting go of things
- Folk Tale Landscapes – A silent place (#5)
- How to draw tree shapes
- Sketching summer flowers
- Nature Journal – Drawing ideas for summer – new class
- What’s in my sketching bag
- Quitting social media again (for good) – Good-bye Twitter
- Folk Tale Landscapes – Church Ruins (#4)
- Sketchbook Tour in spring: March – May 2021
- Sketching a hoopoe (video)
- How to mix interesting neutrals and greys with watercolor
- Folk Tale Landscapes – Autumn Fields (#3)
- Adding color to sketchbook pages – Sketchbook Composition
- Layout Elements for sketchbook composition
- Sketchbook Composition and Layout
- Painting a hummingbird
- Setting up a sketching palette with Holbein watercolor paints
- Folk Tale Landscapes – Light-Filled Forest (#2)
- Sketchbook composition and arranging elements on the page
- Sketching a lapwing in watercolor
- Sketching a nuthatch in ink and watercolor
- Folk Tale Landscapes #1 – Dark Trees in Gouache
- Painting a Blue Jay – Watercolor Demonstration
- Winter Sketchbook Tour (January/February 2021) – Birds and more!
- How to stay positive and enjoy nature during the pandemic
- Mixing greens: A look at different combinations with watercolor greens
- How I use greens in landscape sketching
- My new favorite gouache palette setup
- Folk tale landscapes – the story so far
- Folk Tale Landscapes – A journey to magical places (part 1)
- Layout ideas for sketchbook pages
- Landscape Painting Sketchbook Tour – Autumn 2020
- Nature Journal Sketchbook Tour – Autumn 2020
- More mushroom sketching
- How to draw mushrooms – new sketching class!
- Autumn forest: Gouache landscape painting tutorial
- Sketching mushrooms
- Starting (or rekindling) the creative process – your creative inventory
- Journaling with Nature Podcast Interview
- Nature sketching session: birds, mushrooms and a landscape
- Observing birds of prey and sketching bird silhouettes
- How to make pomegranate ink – self-made iron gall ink
- How to make walnut ink
- Landscape with a tall tree – gouache landscape tutorial
- How To Paint Quick Landscapes – my approach for landscape sketching
- Practical little helpers for outdoor sketching – my favorite additional sketching tools
- My mini sketching kit for everyday painting
- Sketching a Russian Bear moth in watercolor – video tutorial
- Sketching a green hairstreak butterfly – painting iridescent colors
- Sketching maps and watching birds
- Sketching a swallowtail butterfly – video
- Sketching a monarch butterfly – painting tutorial
- Lots of tips for sketching butterflies
- Sketching plant portraits
- Sketchbook Tour – Plein Air Landscape Painting
- Sketchbook Tour July 2020 – my nature journal in July
- One year after I quit social media – Q&A pt.2: Friends & Family, Finding Focus, Learning Online, Art Communities
- One year after I quit social media – Q&A pt.1: Art Business, Marketing, Audience Building
- Quick Tip: Self-made Sketchbooks
- Learn how to make your own sketchbook
- Forest grass landscape painting with gouache (video tutorial)
- One year without social media and a question
- Quick tips for sketching butterflies
- Sketching insects in June
- Seeing a place in color and collecting color schemes
- International Nature Journaling Week – day 3-6
- International Nature Journaling Week – day 1 +2
- Mountain Stream Landscape Watercolor Tutorial
- International Nature Journaling Week – a free online event
- Sketching a hare in watercolor (video)
- An update on my shopping ban after 5 months
- Painting a coast scene in watercolor and gouache + bee eater tutorial (video)
- Sketchbook Techniques for Gouache – How To Get Started With Gouache Paint
- Painting a winter landscape in gouache
- Painting a goldfinch in watercolor
- Painting a barn owl in watercolor
- New bird painting tutorials
- Sketchbook Tour: My sketchbook in March 2020
- Sketching the Cornwall Coast – gouache painting tutorial
- Sketching fieldfares in ink and watercolor
- A kingfisher painting: an encounter turned into a sketch
- The importance of art in difficult times
- Sketching a puffin & a thank you!
- Seagull sketches (video)
- Sketching nature at home in unusual times
- Sketchbook Tour February 2020
- My new watercolor palette in 2020
- How to get vibrant mixes using the right primary colors with watercolor
- Sketchbook Tour: My sketchbook in January 2020
- Video: Painting a finch in watercolor
- How to get better mixes with watercolor and avoid muddy colors
- Setting up a custom watercolor palette for sketching
- My sketchbook in December 2019
- The hungry ghost and letting go of things (my shopping ban for 2020)
- 6 things that made my art better in 2019
- Following the brush
- Sketching Birds in Watercolor (Video Tutorial)
- How to make your own sketchbook – DIY bookbinding
- Color mixing – How I test colors and make color studies
- Sketching wildlife and food
- Why you don‘t need new art supplies
- A list of nature sketching prompts so you never run out of topics
- Nature Journaling – Drawing Ideas For Autumn
- Updates to my palette in 2019 & new favorites
- An introduction to watercolor pigments – things you need to know about colors and pigments
- The beginner’s guide for getting started with watercolor painting – part 2
- The beginner’s guide for getting started with watercolor painting – part 1
- What happens when we observe nature
- Painting The Sky And Clouds – Techniques And Tips
- How to set up your watercolor palette – basic tips
- How to build creative habits and overcome resistance
- Why I quit social media
- Learn Nature Journaling with my online classes
- 5 Tips For Choosing Watercolor Paper
- My Sketchbook In June 2019
- How To Paint Butterflies
- Dip Nib And Fountain Pen Sketching – Comparing Steel Nibs And My Lamy Pen
- Art And Life Lessons From Leonardo Da Vinci
- My Sketchbook in May 2019
- My Favorite Watercolor Mixes Right Now
- Nature Journaling – Drawing Ideas For Spring
- How To Make Sketching A Regular Habit
- My Sketchbook In April 2019
- Why I Love Nature Journaling With Watercolors
- How To Paint Clouds And The Sky – Learn to Paint Clouds in Watercolor (new class)
- How To Draw Birds – 5 Tips For Better Bird Drawings
- A Free Online Sketchbook Workshop: Sketchbook Revival
- My Sketchbook In March 2019
- How To Choose A Great Watercolor Palette – My Current Watercolor Field Kit
- How To Draw Birds – Learn Basic Techniques For Drawing & Painting Birds (New Class)
- How To Paint A Great Tit In Watercolor – Bird Painting (Video Tutorial)
- My Sketchbook in February 2019
- How To Get Started With A New Sketchbook
- How To Paint A Fieldfare In Watercolor – Bird Painting (Video Tutorial)
- Common European Birds – An Ongoing Painting Project
- My Sketchbook in January 2019
- Drawing Ideas For The Winter Months
- Nature Journaling Ideas For Winter – New Class
- My Sketchbook In December 2018
- Different Sketchbook Styles – Methods For Observing And Drawing In Your Nature Journal
- Getting Started With Nature Journaling: Practical Aspects for Sketching Outside (Part 3)
- Getting Started With Nature Journaling: Assembling Your Sketching Toolkit – Choosing Pens, Watercolors and Colored Pencils (Part 2)
- Getting Started With Nature Journaling: Choosing a Sketchbook (Part 1)
- How a nature journal can help you to experience nature and get better at observing and drawing
- How To Start A Nature Journal – Sketchbook Techniques For Nature – New Class
- Starting new habits
Life
- I’m very moved, thank you all!
- Nature Sketchbook giveaway and a 5-year blog anniversary!
- Back from my summer break – slow travel sketching, upcoming courses, finding your own pace
- How I deal with burnout as an artist
- Wrapping up the year + my plans for 2023
- Back again: new plans, upcoming classes and thoughts about the perfectionist brain
- A much needed summer break
- What would you like to see in a foundational drawing class?
- Looking back on 2021 and my plans for 2022
- What studying nature and sketching do for my mental health
- How to get started with birding
- Why watch birds – why you should start birding
- The most beautiful moments and letting go of things
- What happens when we observe nature
Minimalism
- How I deal with burnout as an artist
- Why you don’t need another art tutorial to make better art
- A fresh, non-commercial approach to social media? What I think about Mastodon as an artist
- The most beautiful moments and letting go of things
- One year after I quit social media – Q&A pt.1: Art Business, Marketing, Audience Building
- An update on my shopping ban after 5 months
- The hungry ghost and letting go of things (my shopping ban for 2020)
- Why you don‘t need new art supplies
Nature Journaling
- Quick Tips for painting birds
- Nature Sketchbook giveaway and a 5-year blog anniversary!
- The last echoes of summer – sketching dahlias and borage
- Keep it simple – Tips for a stress-free sketchbook practice
- How to draw anything – learn sketching for beginners
- Loose but precise: Painting an iris
- Loose but precise: Expressive and simple floral paintings in watercolor – new course
- The life of a poppy flower
- 4 easy tips for your sketchbook practice | how to keep sketching
- Sketchbook Tour Spring 2023 – flowers, travel sketching, landscapes
- My mini travel sketching kit | lightweight portable watercolor gear
- Adding color and textures to botanical sketches – loose but precise
- How to draw plants – quick botanical sketching
- Cherry blossom sketches
- Sketching spring flowers in ink and watercolor
- Sketching at the zoo
- Painting clouds and skies – new course out now!
- Sketchbook Tour Winter 2022/23 – Botanical studies, landscapes, clouds
- Adding shadows to sketches + choosing shadow colors
- Announcement: Sketching Fundamentals is open for enrollment
- Wild European Orchids – A new illustration series
- Wrapping up the year + my plans for 2023
- Introduction to Botanical Sketching – new online class out now
- Sketching seedpods and planning a native wildflower balcony
- Taking time for drawing – Sketchbook Fundamentals is back!
- Sketchbook Tour Summer 2022 – small collections, wildflowers, slow drawing
- Back again: new plans, upcoming classes and thoughts about the perfectionist brain
- Finishing field sketches at home
- A day of field sketching – wild orchid fever!
- Sketchbook Tour Spring 2022 – spring green, orchids, missing insects
- Seasonal palette setups – changing palette colors through the seasons
- Starting a sketchbook practice – overcoming fear
- Sketching orchids in the field
- Spring time in my sketchbook – Painting apple blossoms
- Sketching Fundamentals class is out now!
- Wildlife and Plant Illustrations | New watercolor paintings from my portfolio
- Sketchbook Tour Winter 2021/22: More local flora studies + landscapes
- What studying nature and sketching do for my mental health
- How to get started with sketching birds
- How to get started with birding
- Why watch birds – why you should start birding
- Sketchbook Tour Fall ’21: Detailed nature studies (plants, birds, bats) | part 2
- Sketchbook Tour Fall 2021: Detailed nature studies (orchids, butterflies) | part 1
- Corvid Nut Gathering Techniques
- Sketchbook Tour Summer 2021
- How to draw tree shapes
- Sketching summer flowers
- Nature Journal – Drawing ideas for summer – new class
- Sketchbook Tour in spring: March – May 2021
- Layout Elements for sketchbook composition
- Sketchbook Composition and Layout
- Sketchbook composition and arranging elements on the page
- Winter Sketchbook Tour (January/February 2021) – Birds and more!
- How to stay positive and enjoy nature during the pandemic
- Layout ideas for sketchbook pages
- Nature Journal Sketchbook Tour – Autumn 2020
- More mushroom sketching
- Sketching mushrooms
- Journaling with Nature Podcast Interview
- Nature sketching session: birds, mushrooms and a landscape
- Observing birds of prey and sketching bird silhouettes
- How to make walnut ink
- How To Paint Quick Landscapes – my approach for landscape sketching
- Practical little helpers for outdoor sketching – my favorite additional sketching tools
- My mini sketching kit for everyday painting
- Sketching a Russian Bear moth in watercolor – video tutorial
- Sketching a green hairstreak butterfly – painting iridescent colors
- Sketching maps and watching birds
- Lots of tips for sketching butterflies
- Sketching plant portraits
- Sketchbook Tour July 2020 – my nature journal in July
- Quick tips for sketching butterflies
- Sketching insects in June
- Seeing a place in color and collecting color schemes
- International Nature Journaling Week – day 3-6
- International Nature Journaling Week – day 1 +2
- International Nature Journaling Week – a free online event
- Sketching a hare in watercolor (video)
- Painting a goldfinch in watercolor
- Painting a barn owl in watercolor
- Sketching fieldfares in ink and watercolor
- A kingfisher painting: an encounter turned into a sketch
- Sketching a puffin & a thank you!
- Seagull sketches (video)
- Sketching nature at home in unusual times
- Sketchbook Tour: My sketchbook in January 2020
- Video: Painting a finch in watercolor
- My sketchbook in December 2019
- Sketching Birds in Watercolor (Video Tutorial)
- Sketching wildlife and food
- A list of nature sketching prompts so you never run out of topics
- Nature Journaling – Drawing Ideas For Autumn
- Updates to my palette in 2019 & new favorites
- What happens when we observe nature
- Painting The Sky And Clouds – Techniques And Tips
- How to set up your watercolor palette – basic tips
- Learn Nature Journaling with my online classes
- My Sketchbook In June 2019
- How To Paint Butterflies
- Art And Life Lessons From Leonardo Da Vinci
- My Sketchbook in May 2019
- My Favorite Watercolor Mixes Right Now
- Nature Journaling – Drawing Ideas For Spring
- How To Make Sketching A Regular Habit
- My Sketchbook In April 2019
- Why I Love Nature Journaling With Watercolors
- How To Draw Birds – 5 Tips For Better Bird Drawings
- A Free Online Sketchbook Workshop: Sketchbook Revival
- My Sketchbook In March 2019
- How To Choose A Great Watercolor Palette – My Current Watercolor Field Kit
- How To Draw Birds – Learn Basic Techniques For Drawing & Painting Birds (New Class)
- My Sketchbook in February 2019
- How To Get Started With A New Sketchbook
- Common European Birds – An Ongoing Painting Project
- My Sketchbook in January 2019
- Drawing Ideas For The Winter Months
- Nature Journaling Ideas For Winter – New Class
- My Sketchbook In December 2018
- Different Sketchbook Styles – Methods For Observing And Drawing In Your Nature Journal
- Getting Started With Nature Journaling: Practical Aspects for Sketching Outside (Part 3)
- Getting Started With Nature Journaling: Assembling Your Sketching Toolkit – Choosing Pens, Watercolors and Colored Pencils (Part 2)
- Getting Started With Nature Journaling: Choosing a Sketchbook (Part 1)
- How a nature journal can help you to experience nature and get better at observing and drawing
- How To Start A Nature Journal – Sketchbook Techniques For Nature – New Class
- Starting new habits
Online courses
- Loose but precise: Expressive and simple floral paintings in watercolor – new course
- Painting clouds and skies – new course out now!
- Announcement: Sketching Fundamentals is open for enrollment
- Why you don’t need another art tutorial to make better art
- Wrapping up the year + my plans for 2023
- Introduction to Botanical Sketching – new online class out now
- Taking time for drawing – Sketchbook Fundamentals is back!
- Back again: new plans, upcoming classes and thoughts about the perfectionist brain
- How to create three dimensional realistic drawings
- Sketching Fundamentals class is out now!
- What would you like to see in a foundational drawing class?
- How to draw tree shapes
- Sketching summer flowers
- Nature Journal – Drawing ideas for summer – new class
- Adding color to sketchbook pages – Sketchbook Composition
- Layout Elements for sketchbook composition
- Sketchbook Composition and Layout
- How to draw mushrooms – new sketching class!
- Lots of tips for sketching butterflies
- Learn how to make your own sketchbook
- Quick tips for sketching butterflies
- New bird painting tutorials
- Sketching nature at home in unusual times
- Setting up a custom watercolor palette for sketching
- Nature Journaling – Drawing Ideas For Autumn
- Learn Nature Journaling with my online classes
- How To Paint Butterflies
- Nature Journaling – Drawing Ideas For Spring
- How To Paint Clouds And The Sky – Learn to Paint Clouds in Watercolor (new class)
- How To Draw Birds – Learn Basic Techniques For Drawing & Painting Birds (New Class)
- Nature Journaling Ideas For Winter – New Class
- How To Start A Nature Journal – Sketchbook Techniques For Nature – New Class
Q&A
- What do you want to see more of?
- Journaling with Nature Podcast Interview
- One year after I quit social media – Q&A pt.2: Friends & Family, Finding Focus, Learning Online, Art Communities
- One year after I quit social media – Q&A pt.1: Art Business, Marketing, Audience Building
Sketchbook Tours
- Sketchbook Tour Summer 2023 – flowers, landscapes
- Sketchbook Tour Spring 2023 – flowers, travel sketching, landscapes
- Sketchbook Tour Winter 2022/23 – Botanical studies, landscapes, clouds
- Sketchbook Tour Autumn 2022 – Architecture, Botanical Garden, Flowers in November
- Sketchbook Tour Summer 2022 – small collections, wildflowers, slow drawing
- Sketchbook Tour Spring 2022 – spring green, orchids, missing insects
- Sketchbook Tour Winter/Spring 2022: trees, architecture and spring plants
- Sketchbook Tour Winter 2021/22: More local flora studies + landscapes
- Sketchbook Tour Fall ’21: Detailed nature studies (plants, birds, bats) | part 2
- Sketchbook Tour Fall 2021: Detailed nature studies (orchids, butterflies) | part 1
- Sketchbook Tour Summer 2021
- Sketchbook Tour in spring: March – May 2021
- Winter Sketchbook Tour (January/February 2021) – Birds and more!
- Landscape Painting Sketchbook Tour – Autumn 2020
- Nature Journal Sketchbook Tour – Autumn 2020
- Sketchbook Tour – Plein Air Landscape Painting
- Sketchbook Tour July 2020 – my nature journal in July
- International Nature Journaling Week – day 3-6
- Sketchbook Tour: My sketchbook in March 2020
- Sketchbook Tour February 2020
- Sketchbook Tour: My sketchbook in January 2020
- My sketchbook in December 2019
- My Sketchbook In June 2019
- My Sketchbook in May 2019
- My Sketchbook In April 2019
- My Sketchbook In March 2019
- My Sketchbook in February 2019
- My Sketchbook in January 2019
- My Sketchbook In December 2018
Tools + Materials
- My grandma’s fountain pen | sketching with a vintage Montblanc
- Kremer Pigments Landscape palette: a review + painting demo
- How to make a bamboo pen for sketching
- My mini travel sketching kit | lightweight portable watercolor gear
- How I use fountain pens with colored ink for sketching
- My current sketching palette – changes to my palette (March 2023)
- Capturing the impression of a place quickly – basic landscape sketching tips
- Seasonal palette setups – changing palette colors through the seasons
- How to put together a mini palette with limited colors
- My favorite colors for landscape sketching
- How I use colored pencils for sketching
- My favorite drawing tools right now
- My updated sketching palette in 2021
- What’s in my sketching bag
- Setting up a sketching palette with Holbein watercolor paints
- How to make walnut ink
- Practical little helpers for outdoor sketching – my favorite additional sketching tools
- My mini sketching kit for everyday painting
- Quick Tip: Self-made Sketchbooks
- Learn how to make your own sketchbook
- Seeing a place in color and collecting color schemes
- Sketchbook Techniques for Gouache – How To Get Started With Gouache Paint
- My new watercolor palette in 2020
- Setting up a custom watercolor palette for sketching
- The hungry ghost and letting go of things (my shopping ban for 2020)
- How to make your own sketchbook – DIY bookbinding
- Color mixing – How I test colors and make color studies
- Why you don‘t need new art supplies
- Updates to my palette in 2019 & new favorites
- An introduction to watercolor pigments – things you need to know about colors and pigments
- The beginner’s guide for getting started with watercolor painting – part 2
- How to set up your watercolor palette – basic tips
- 5 Tips For Choosing Watercolor Paper
- How To Choose A Great Watercolor Palette – My Current Watercolor Field Kit
- Getting Started With Nature Journaling: Assembling Your Sketching Toolkit – Choosing Pens, Watercolors and Colored Pencils (Part 2)
- Getting Started With Nature Journaling: Choosing a Sketchbook (Part 1)
Videos
- My grandma’s fountain pen | sketching with a vintage Montblanc
- Quick Tips for painting birds
- Keep it simple – Tips for a stress-free sketchbook practice
- How to draw anything – learn sketching for beginners
- Loose but precise: Painting an iris
- Kremer Pigments Landscape palette: a review + painting demo
- The life of a poppy flower
- How to make a bamboo pen for sketching
- Sketchbook Tour Spring 2023 – flowers, travel sketching, landscapes
- My mini travel sketching kit | lightweight portable watercolor gear
- Cherry blossom sketches
- Sketching spring flowers in ink and watercolor
- How to paint fluffy clouds in watercolor
- Painting clouds and skies – new course out now!
- Sketchbook Tour Winter 2022/23 – Botanical studies, landscapes, clouds
- My current sketching palette – changes to my palette (March 2023)
- How AI is stealing your art
- Announcement: Sketching Fundamentals is open for enrollment
- Why you don’t need another art tutorial to make better art
- Wild European Orchids – A new illustration series
- Sketchbook Tour Autumn 2022 – Architecture, Botanical Garden, Flowers in November
- A fresh, non-commercial approach to social media? What I think about Mastodon as an artist
- How I balance my time as a working artist
- Introduction to Botanical Sketching – new online class out now
- Taking time for drawing – Sketchbook Fundamentals is back!
- Sketchbook Tour Summer 2022 – small collections, wildflowers, slow drawing
- Finishing field sketches at home
- A day of field sketching – wild orchid fever!
- Sketching orchids in the field
- Spring time in my sketchbook – Painting apple blossoms
- How to put together a mini palette with limited colors
- Morning landscape sketch with a limited palette
- How to create three dimensional realistic drawings
- Sketching Fundamentals class is out now!
- How to get started with sketching birds
- Sketchbook Tour Fall ’21: Detailed nature studies (plants, birds, bats) | part 2
- Folk Tale Landscapes – House in the woods (#7)
- Drawing a raven in ink
- How to tell apart warm and cool colors – Color theory tips
- Folk Tale Landscapes – Light and shadow (#6)
- Sketchbook Tour Summer 2021
- Folk Tale Landscapes – A silent place (#5)
- Sketching summer flowers
- Nature Journal – Drawing ideas for summer – new class
- What’s in my sketching bag
- Folk Tale Landscapes – Church Ruins (#4)
- Sketchbook Tour in spring: March – May 2021
- Sketching a hoopoe (video)
- How to mix interesting neutrals and greys with watercolor
- Folk Tale Landscapes – Autumn Fields (#3)
- Layout Elements for sketchbook composition
- Painting a hummingbird
- Folk Tale Landscapes – Light-Filled Forest (#2)
- Sketching a lapwing in watercolor
- Sketching a nuthatch in ink and watercolor
- Folk Tale Landscapes #1 – Dark Trees in Gouache
- Painting a Blue Jay – Watercolor Demonstration
- Winter Sketchbook Tour (January/February 2021) – Birds and more!
- How to stay positive and enjoy nature during the pandemic
- Landscape Painting Sketchbook Tour – Autumn 2020
- Nature Journal Sketchbook Tour – Autumn 2020
- More mushroom sketching
- Autumn forest: Gouache landscape painting tutorial
- Nature sketching session: birds, mushrooms and a landscape
- Landscape with a tall tree – gouache landscape tutorial
- Sketching a Russian Bear moth in watercolor – video tutorial
- Sketching a green hairstreak butterfly – painting iridescent colors
- Sketching a swallowtail butterfly – video
- Sketching a monarch butterfly – painting tutorial
- Sketchbook Tour July 2020 – my nature journal in July
- One year after I quit social media – Q&A pt.2: Friends & Family, Finding Focus, Learning Online, Art Communities
- One year after I quit social media – Q&A pt.1: Art Business, Marketing, Audience Building
- Forest grass landscape painting with gouache (video tutorial)
- Quick tips for sketching butterflies
- Mountain Stream Landscape Watercolor Tutorial
- Sketching a hare in watercolor (video)
- An update on my shopping ban after 5 months
- Painting a coast scene in watercolor and gouache + bee eater tutorial (video)
- Sketchbook Techniques for Gouache – How To Get Started With Gouache Paint
- Painting a winter landscape in gouache
- Painting a barn owl in watercolor
- New bird painting tutorials
- Sketchbook Tour: My sketchbook in March 2020
- Sketching the Cornwall Coast – gouache painting tutorial
- Sketching fieldfares in ink and watercolor
- A kingfisher painting: an encounter turned into a sketch
- The importance of art in difficult times
- Sketching a puffin & a thank you!
- Seagull sketches (video)
- Sketchbook Tour February 2020
- How to get vibrant mixes using the right primary colors with watercolor
- Sketchbook Tour: My sketchbook in January 2020
- Video: Painting a finch in watercolor
- Setting up a custom watercolor palette for sketching
- My sketchbook in December 2019
- The hungry ghost and letting go of things (my shopping ban for 2020)
- Sketching Birds in Watercolor (Video Tutorial)
- How to make your own sketchbook – DIY bookbinding
- How To Paint A Great Tit In Watercolor – Bird Painting (Video Tutorial)
- How To Paint A Fieldfare In Watercolor – Bird Painting (Video Tutorial)
Watercolor
- Quick Tips for painting birds
- The last echoes of summer – sketching dahlias and borage
- Loose but precise: Painting an iris
- Loose but precise: Expressive and simple floral paintings in watercolor – new course
- Kremer Pigments Landscape palette: a review + painting demo
- The life of a poppy flower
- Sketchbook Tour Spring 2023 – flowers, travel sketching, landscapes
- Adding color and textures to botanical sketches – loose but precise
- The properties of color + how to mix colors
- Cherry blossom sketches
- Sketching spring flowers in ink and watercolor
- How to paint fluffy clouds in watercolor
- Painting clouds and skies – new course out now!
- Sketchbook Tour Winter 2022/23 – Botanical studies, landscapes, clouds
- My current sketching palette – changes to my palette (March 2023)
- Painting clouds and the sky – my current approach
- Adding shadows to sketches + choosing shadow colors
- Wild European Orchids – A new illustration series
- Sketchbook Tour Autumn 2022 – Architecture, Botanical Garden, Flowers in November
- Introduction to Botanical Sketching – new online class out now
- Sketching seedpods and planning a native wildflower balcony
- Sketchbook Tour Summer 2022 – small collections, wildflowers, slow drawing
- Back again: new plans, upcoming classes and thoughts about the perfectionist brain
- Capturing the impression of a place quickly – basic landscape sketching tips
- Finishing field sketches at home
- A day of field sketching – wild orchid fever!
- Sketchbook Tour Spring 2022 – spring green, orchids, missing insects
- Seasonal palette setups – changing palette colors through the seasons
- Sketching orchids in the field
- Spring time in my sketchbook – Painting apple blossoms
- How to put together a mini palette with limited colors
- Morning landscape sketch with a limited palette
- Sketchbook Tour Fall ’21: Detailed nature studies (plants, birds, bats) | part 2
- Sketchbook Tour Fall 2021: Detailed nature studies (orchids, butterflies) | part 1
- Corvid Nut Gathering Techniques
- Folk Tale Landscapes – House in the woods (#7)
- My updated sketching palette in 2021
- Folk Tale Landscapes – Light and shadow (#6)
- Sketchbook Tour Summer 2021
- Folk Tale Landscapes – A silent place (#5)
- How to draw tree shapes
- Sketching summer flowers
- Nature Journal – Drawing ideas for summer – new class
- Folk Tale Landscapes – Church Ruins (#4)
- Sketching a hoopoe (video)
- How to mix interesting neutrals and greys with watercolor
- Folk Tale Landscapes – Autumn Fields (#3)
- Sketchbook Composition and Layout
- Painting a hummingbird
- Setting up a sketching palette with Holbein watercolor paints
- Sketching a lapwing in watercolor
- Sketching a nuthatch in ink and watercolor
- Winter Sketchbook Tour (January/February 2021) – Birds and more!
- Mixing greens: A look at different combinations with watercolor greens
- How I use greens in landscape sketching
- Landscape Painting Sketchbook Tour – Autumn 2020
- Nature Journal Sketchbook Tour – Autumn 2020
- How to draw mushrooms – new sketching class!
- Sketching mushrooms
- Nature sketching session: birds, mushrooms and a landscape
- Observing birds of prey and sketching bird silhouettes
- How To Paint Quick Landscapes – my approach for landscape sketching
- Sketching a Russian Bear moth in watercolor – video tutorial
- Sketching a green hairstreak butterfly – painting iridescent colors
- Sketching maps and watching birds
- Sketching a swallowtail butterfly – video
- Sketching a monarch butterfly – painting tutorial
- Lots of tips for sketching butterflies
- Sketching plant portraits
- Sketchbook Tour – Plein Air Landscape Painting
- Sketchbook Tour July 2020 – my nature journal in July
- Sketching insects in June
- Seeing a place in color and collecting color schemes
- International Nature Journaling Week – day 3-6
- International Nature Journaling Week – day 1 +2
- Mountain Stream Landscape Watercolor Tutorial
- Sketching a hare in watercolor (video)
- Painting a coast scene in watercolor and gouache + bee eater tutorial (video)
- Painting a goldfinch in watercolor
- Painting a barn owl in watercolor
- New bird painting tutorials
- Sketchbook Tour: My sketchbook in March 2020
- Sketching fieldfares in ink and watercolor
- A kingfisher painting: an encounter turned into a sketch
- Sketching a puffin & a thank you!
- Seagull sketches (video)
- Sketching nature at home in unusual times
- My new watercolor palette in 2020
- How to get vibrant mixes using the right primary colors with watercolor
- Sketchbook Tour: My sketchbook in January 2020
- Video: Painting a finch in watercolor
- How to get better mixes with watercolor and avoid muddy colors
- Setting up a custom watercolor palette for sketching
- My sketchbook in December 2019
- Sketching Birds in Watercolor (Video Tutorial)
- Color mixing – How I test colors and make color studies
- Sketching wildlife and food
- Nature Journaling – Drawing Ideas For Autumn
- Updates to my palette in 2019 & new favorites
- An introduction to watercolor pigments – things you need to know about colors and pigments
- The beginner’s guide for getting started with watercolor painting – part 2
- The beginner’s guide for getting started with watercolor painting – part 1
- Painting The Sky And Clouds – Techniques And Tips
- How to set up your watercolor palette – basic tips
- 5 Tips For Choosing Watercolor Paper
- My Sketchbook In June 2019
- How To Paint Butterflies
- My Favorite Watercolor Mixes Right Now
- Nature Journaling – Drawing Ideas For Spring
- My Sketchbook In April 2019
- Why I Love Nature Journaling With Watercolors
- How To Paint Clouds And The Sky – Learn to Paint Clouds in Watercolor (new class)
- How To Choose A Great Watercolor Palette – My Current Watercolor Field Kit
- How To Paint A Great Tit In Watercolor – Bird Painting (Video Tutorial)
- My Sketchbook in February 2019
- How To Paint A Fieldfare In Watercolor – Bird Painting (Video Tutorial)
- Common European Birds – An Ongoing Painting Project
- My Sketchbook in January 2019
- Drawing Ideas For The Winter Months
- Nature Journaling Ideas For Winter – New Class
- My Sketchbook In December 2018
- Getting Started With Nature Journaling: Assembling Your Sketching Toolkit – Choosing Pens, Watercolors and Colored Pencils (Part 2)
Wildlife Sketching
- Sketching at the zoo
- Sketchbook Tour Winter 2022/23 – Botanical studies, landscapes, clouds
- Sketchbook Tour Autumn 2022 – Architecture, Botanical Garden, Flowers in November
- Sketchbook Tour Summer 2022 – small collections, wildflowers, slow drawing
- Wildlife and Plant Illustrations | New watercolor paintings from my portfolio
- Sketchbook Tour Fall ’21: Detailed nature studies (plants, birds, bats) | part 2
- Sketching a duck in ink
- Nature Journal – Drawing ideas for summer – new class
- Observing birds of prey and sketching bird silhouettes
- Sketching a Russian Bear moth in watercolor – video tutorial
- Sketching a green hairstreak butterfly – painting iridescent colors
- Sketching maps and watching birds
- Sketching a swallowtail butterfly – video
- Sketching a monarch butterfly – painting tutorial