Start easy: the 1st page in your Nature Journal
Many people fear the start of a new journal or sketchbook, because they want to have a very good and perfect 1st page as a entry. The first blank page… always a challenge Doing something wrong on the first page…
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…
Bird 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, shacked the feathers, jumped up and down, chased each other and started a playful fight. But as soon…
Under the skin
Nature studies are very interesting, also when you take a look under the skin. How is the muscle contruction of a horse? What is each muscle doing? How is the skull of a raven – why is it´s beak so…
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
