Illustration + Nature Sketching
Welcome to my next sketchbook tour. It’s been a while since my last sketchbook tour, and now the summer is already over. So what did I sketch in the summer of 2023? Flowers, big landscapes, and a few more things. Here’s a video version of this sketchbook tour: Remember the final entry of my last … Read more
I recently got a small landscape-themed palette from Kremer Pigments and today I’m going to test it and paint a small landscape sketch with it. Kremer is a family-owned German company for pigments, paints and all kinds of materials for the restoration of traditional artworks. They specialize in historical and rare pigments, like real lapislazuli, … Read more
Here’s another sketchbook tour for the first quarter of 2023. Lots and lots of flowers, some travel sketching and a few larger landscapes. I’ve already shared bits and pieces from my recent sketchbook adventures on Mastodon. If you want to try out this non-commercial, ad-free social media site and would like to follow my work … Read more
Painting white clouds is surprisingly easy with watercolor – you just paint around them with blue paint, let that dry and add a few cloud shadows as a second step. Today I have a short outtake for you from my cloud sketching course that shows the process in detail. Depending on your time and the … Read more
This week, the remake of my course on painting clouds is coming out, yay! I’m really happy with how it turned out, and I think it’s a definite upgrade to the last version. The course has an introduction on how to paint skies, lessons about choosing blues and how to get great mixes for clouds, … Read more
Welcome back to another sketchbook tour. Right now it seems like there’s nothing happening in my sketchbook at all – I’m busy with filming an online course (which means painting outside of the sketchbook), there’s an illustration project to finish, and I’m also still very slow – my health is only getting better in baby … Read more
I find winter is a great season to get started with painting skies and clouds – you can often see such intensive colors. With watercolor, painting skies can both be a very quick or a slow process – quick when you just add a few brush strokes to show a bit of blue, slow when … Read more
My last sketchbook tour was a good while ago, so let’s see what I have been up to in since September. Not so much, alas, since I was first down with a common cold in October, and then caught Covid. I’ve recovered, but still have to take things slowly. This also shows in my sketchbook, … Read more
Something that came up in the recent run-through of my class Sketching Fundamentals and that is also a frequently asked question generally is how do you capture the atmosphere of a place quickly (in drawing or painting) before the light changes, and how to you find a good place to set up and work? I … Read more
Last week I rediscovered a landscape sketching video I must have made last year and totally forgot about. I remember the scene though, I took the photo I painted from later very early on a summer day, with morning mist still densely on the fields, and the sun just about to peek through. It was … Read more
I’m happy to announce that my new class Sketching Fundamentals is out now, available on my website and on Skillshare. This class is a foundational drawing class that will teach you basic sketching techniques. In this in-depth introduction, you will learn how to see like an artist, explore different drawing techniques, create quick sketches from … Read more
I was asked if I could do a post about my favorite colors for landscape sketching. I have talked about the colors on my watercolor palette before, but this got me thinking: do I have any favorite colors? Here’s a video version of this post: My favorite colors for landscape sketching (video) I’m a bit … Read more