Museum sketching: “Mama” – Venus of Hohle Fels
Sketching in the museum is so much fun and “Mama” is very famous in our region. Her original name is: Venus of Hohle Fels. She is 35.000 – 40.000 year old and was found in a cave in 2008 in…
Bird rescue – a challenge
The last 2 weeks kept me quite busy. We did a lot of decluttering and construction in and around our house. And additionally we got a new family member accidentally. Falling from the sky When I was doing training with…
An egg´s tale
“We found an egg!” my son told me and was holding this little thing carefully in his hands. A song thrush egg. Such a bright beautiful blue color. It was the first time for me to see a real one.…
Create your own herbarium
Before you start with your botanical painting, there is a lot of observation work to be done. For this it is very practial to take the plant with you (if this is not a protected species). We want to keep…
Plein air equipment: let´s go outside
What a wonderful April we have – the beautiful weather is giving me motivation to sit in my garden or go to the forest. Unluckily the COVID19 regulation in Germany is still keeping us at home, but it´s a good…
5 Tips to start successfully botanical painting
Well, botanical painting is really a thing in itself. I definitely hadn’t chosen the simplest topic. If you look around the web, you are overwhelmed by works of art that look like photographs. So perfect, so detailed and then I…
So much leaves
After Newcastle I was ambitious and I enrolled in the Botanical Painting course at London Art College. The first exam is now over. I submitted my drawings and also received my criticism. I’m very happy with that, especially since I…
Artist Talk: on four paws
I hope you had a good start to the new year 2020. There is a lot to do … so let’s do it. But before we start here, I would like to introduce you to someone very important. Lucy, my…
Panther Chameleon (Furcifer pardalis)
Habitat: Madagascar In the course of my final assignment on the Newcastle course in Natural History Illustration, I chose the panther chameleon. What fascinated me about this reptile was the incredibly complex structure of the skin. The difficulty here was…
Leaf of the sunflower (heliantus)
The sunflower belongs to the composit flower. It is a tube bloomer, which makes the flower itself very complex. I myself have a decorative form of heliantus in the garden and it´s leaves are beautiful. Step away from the dominant…
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