Illustration + Nature Sketching
Today I’m excited to announce a new course: I focused a lot on big, loose floral paintings during this spring and summer, an activity with lots of flowing paint and big brush strokes, and I thought this would be a nice addition to my existing botanical sketching course that’s focused a bit more on 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
Just a quick announcement for those of you who are interested in a basic drawing course: I’m currently offering my foundational drawing course called “Sketching Fundamentals“. It comes in two different versions – as a self-directed course (you can start right away and go through the class at your own pace), or as a guided … Read more
I‘ve been thinking a lot lately about creativity and overwhelm and how learning works, and so today I want to talk about why you, and I, for that matter, don‘t need another art course, or tutorial, or more inspiration to make better art. Here’s a video version of this post: https://youtu.be/oLhsJ–oY68 I think it’s in … Read more
At the end of every year I like to use the quieter days between the years for winding down, reading and for a bit of reflection: what did I do this year, what went well, what didn’t and what are my plans for the next year. I do this for my art (where it’s often … Read more
I’m excited to announce that another sketching class is finished and ready for you. It’s called: Wildflowers in Watercolor and Ink: Introduction to Botanical Sketching and it’s available directly from me or through Skillshare. The class has a lot of the energy I was after this summer, with long field trips, concentrating on new sketching … Read more
As I’ve already mentioned in my sketchbook tour, recently I’ve slowed down my sketching process a bit. As much as I love quick and spontaneous sketching, I’ve found that when I take my time for the drawing I often like the results better. Just to clarify, “taking my time” still means that I will typically … Read more
It’s September and I’m back from my summer break. For anyone who joined this newsletter in the last four weeks, a warm welcome! I usually share sketching tips and art-related stuff, but in this installment I will talk a little bit about personal stuff and my plans. I hope you will also forgive me if … Read more
“Learning to see like an artist” is often described as noticing your subject as a combination of simple shapes instead of a cartoon object that you have in mind. We’re trained to think in object-mode: I see an apple. Apples are supposed to be round, so you draw a round shape – a circle. That, … 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
Dear readers, I have a question for you this week: I’m in the process of putting together and filming the foundational drawing class. It’s going slower than I had planned, and although I already have a few hours worth of material, I can still add things. I have already planned in short mini lessons for … Read more
In this next outtake from my new class Drawing Ideas for Summer I’ll show you how you can approach sketching tree shapes. Sketching different trees has been a challenge over a long time for me, until I tried out this technique of grouping parts of the tree together in groups of leaves. The trick is … Read more