How To Draw Birds – 5 Tips For Better Bird Drawings
Since I’m focusing on how to draw birds in my upcoming free online workshop, I wanted to take a look at five quick tips for better bird drawings today. Study Bird Anatomy If you want to draw a convincing bird, you need to understand what lies beneath the surface. When...
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A Free Online Sketchbook Workshop: Sketchbook Revival
I’m happy to announce that I’ll be part of an inspiring online workshop series coming up later this month. The event is called Sketchbook Revival (hosted by the wonderful Karen Abend), it’ll be running between April 22 through May 4 2019, and the best part about it is...
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My Sketchbook In March 2019
It’s time for reflecting another month of nature journaling. March is the time of the year around here where you can feel that nature is awakening slowly from its winter hibernation. The first few leaves and blossoms are coming out, and the birds are getting active...
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My current watercolor field kit + tips for choosing a palette
This is the palette I’m currently using for my sketchbook work and when I’m out in the field. When I work in my studio, I like to keep a bigger palette around just in case, but most of the time I end up using this one, too. Some general thoughts about choosing paints:...
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How To Draw Birds – Learn Basic Techniques For Drawing & Painting Birds (New Class)
A big part of my daily journaling is centered about birds, and I draw them almost every day. I know that a lot of people think (as did I when I first started out) that birds are hard to draw, because they move around, fly away, and have all these feathers and weird...
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How To Paint A Great Tit In Watercolor – Bird Painting (Video Tutorial)
Great tits are very common and very agile birds that you can see a lot at the bird feeder in winter. They are the biggest of the Paridae family in Europe. The have a lovely black and yellow plumage. In this video I share my entire...
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My Sketchbook in February 2019
February was another month where I focused on drawing birds, there’s not much happening here aside from that and the last breaths of winter. We ventured out for a few small trips however, one of them to the Hoher Meißner region south of where we live, and this was a...
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How To Get Started With A New Sketchbook
Do you want to know a secret? I used to be afraid of sketchbooks. I was a perfectionist, and was afraid of making mistakes in my sketchbook, which would of course be ruined by a bad drawing. I preferred to work on loose paper. I’m sure many of you know this...
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How To Paint A Fieldfare In Watercolor – Bird Painting (Video Tutorial)
The fieldfare is a common bird here in winter, and it’s a delight to paint. In this video I share my entire process for painting a bird with a lot of detail. How to paint a realistic bird in watercolor Click on the video to start the tutorial. You can slow down the...
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Common European Birds – An Ongoing Painting Project
One thing I’ve been working more on in the last few months is drawing and painting birds. I always felt strangely fascinated by birds, and in recent months I have started to paint them. I was particularly interested in what species are common and rare here in Germany...
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