Illustration + Nature Sketching
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
Every few months, I do a few tweaks to my field sketching palette. Roughly every year, I do an update on the blog about it. I thought it might be fun to take a look at what I’ve changed lately. You can get a handy PDF of my current palette if you sign up for … Read more
Today I want to take a closer look at AI or machine learning from the perspective of an artist, and after taking a look at what this technology is and how it works and how it changes the creative community, I’m going to tell you how AI stole my own art and how I think … 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
As many of you know, I’ve been sketching orchids in the field last summer in several places, and I thought it would be nice to turn all my sketches into more finished artworks. In this post I wanted to share the process of doing this with you – in fact this has turned into quite … 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
From time to time I get the question: do I still manage to stay away from social media? After all, I deleted most of my social media accounts in 2019 (except for my Youtube channel), and I’ve done a few q&a’s about how I run my art business without the obligatory seeming Instagram and TikTok … Read more
It’s been a while, everyone! As I’ve recovered from Covid (can’t recommend, wouldn’t buy again, zero stars), I’ve thought about a question from one of my wonderful students I got a while back. Anne asks: “I’d love to know how you balance your time as a working artist: I always struggle to balance art-work, art-learning … 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