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.…
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…
Tree bark
Let´s take a very detailed look on a tree bark. What do you see? I can see so many things: landscapes, labyriths, cities – a wonderful complex structure and it looks like a secret world with his own universe. Trees…
Ornithology of native birds
I think that eggs are totally difficult to paint. Not the shape, but the texture and the color transitions, not to forget the incidence of light. My goal was to make a small documentation in my nature sketchbook of the…
Field Sketching: We are hungry!
Field Sketching in a group of young sparrows. They enjoyed to take a bath in the dust. They dived into the sand, shaked the feathers, jumped up and down, chased each other and started a playful fight. But as soon…
Dandelion Documentation – so sunny
To be honest, drawing in black and white is not really my thing. I prefer it colorful … and the documentation study of the dandelions for my Nature Journal was great fun. Originally I wanted to paint the study with…
Dandelion leaf
When I started to paint with watercolor my first model was the Dandelion leaf. It was quite a challenge for me to follow the complext structure of veins and shadows. This time I made observation sketch of it. It was…
painting nature
