An egg´s tale – natural history illustration by accident
“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 sucessfully 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…
With silent wings
The barn owl (tyto alba) is one of the night hunters. It flies silently and quickly through narrow gaps and wall entrances. It´s flying talent is incredible and the mice in the attics have to be careful. DThis observation sketch…
Natural History Illustration Newcastle II
…taking the chance… In February 2019, I heard the first time about a free course in Natural History Illustration from Newcastle University in Australia. The faculty offers a free online course to give everyone who is interested the opportunity to…
painting nature
