Illustration + Nature Sketching
I’ve been continuing to sketch landscapes in watercolor and gouache, here is an outtake from my sketchbook in autumn. Here’s a video version of this post: Landscape Painting Sketchbook Tour | Autumn 2020 I usually do quick studies in a small sketchbook that is the size of my palm, and when I like the subject … Read more
Every time I post one of these gouache landscape painting tutorials, I want to tell you about the personal project I recently started that’s connected with these landscape paintings, and why it’s really a project that I have been doing for over ten years, and what’s my special connection to the places I’m painting. But … Read more
Here’s another gouache landscape tutorial for you. I’ve recorded this video quite a while ago (before the summer started), so I’d probably do a few things different now – I’d spend less times with individual brush strokes and focus more on the simplification of the entire scene. It’s still a good video to learn from, … Read more
My approach on sketching landscapes in my sketchbook is that I want to catch the impression of a place while keeping the process quick – and I have basically two modes of landscape sketching: as a part of my journaling page, these are quick, 10-15 minute loose sketches; and as a standalone painting in my … Read more
As promised I’ll show a few of my plein air landscape sketches today. I’ve always been fond of landscape painting, and after nature journaling outdoors for a few years, I wanted to take my landscape sketches a step further. So this summer I’ve tried to go out for plein air painting more often, and although … Read more
First of all, thank you everyone for the massive feedback you all sent after my last post – I’ll definitely do an update on my first year without social media – I only see this as the beginning, or rather, deleting the profiles as the end point to something I no longer needed. I’ll just … Read more
In this landscape watercolor tutorial (with a little bit of gouache and colored pencil mixed in) I share how I paint foliage, foamy and translucent water. I’m still enjoying making landscape paintings from vacation photos, this time from a mountain stream in the Italian alps – in fact I’d love to go back there right … Read more
Here’s another coast scene in watercolor (and a bit of gouache). I have a lot of fun doing these with my old vacation pictures! When painting landscapes in watercolor, you can slowly build up layers of color and give a lot of depth to the objects you paint, like rocks or water. And if you … Read more
It’s been a while since I’ve seen snow here, but painting winter landscapes in gouache can still be fun. I’ve shown this landscape in an earlier sketchbook tour and repainted it for this tutorial. Painting a subject again can be weird – sometimes it gets better, sometimes not. The painting process is always enjoyable, though. … Read more
My sketchbook tour will be a bit different this month as I have been doing a lot of painting at home since the lockdown, and my sketching activities in nature have stopped entirely. I’ve been recording a lot of bird sketching tutorials, some of them I’ve already shared on Youtube, some of them will be … Read more
I’ve been painting in gouache a lot lately. Since plein air painting will be off the menu for quite a while, I’ve looked through old vacation photos and use those as a subject. I have a lot of material from recent years! I quite like this process, since a lot of memories of great places … Read more