Autumn red

I like to walk through the garden and just look at details.

These sweet red Autumn colours are popping up here and there.

A sort of soft burgundy, fresh, not saturated.

Love them in combination with the green colours.

This is a raspberry stem.

One more: Nature journal

Another exercise in my Nature Journal: make a reference of colours and patterns. 

I chose a magazine from Sweden, and simply painted what I saw.

When you fill in all the squares,

it is a nice reference to look to for ideas.

I will use this more to gather ideas.

The nature journal progress

I spent some time working on the Nature Journal. This time we looked at the shapes of leaves and how to use these in your art. It is just fun to experiment with the shapes and structures.

Some results:

The autumn is starting here: lots of rain showers, a slight chill in the air, mushrooms popping up.

I miss summer already... but hey it is time for a new season, and new colours.

Hello from ground level

Hello from ground level! In the dark world of the tiny and small creatures,

these flowers must look huge. A dark world because it is overgrown with greens,

and you have to find your trail to get through it. 

A magical world also when proportions are out of size, a bit of a fairy tale land.

The nature journal

I have not had the time to work a lot in my Nature Journal.

The summer has flown by. I did however take the time to go out into nature and take pictures.

For one of the assignments in the online course you had to collect different shapes,

and make a rub of their structure.

I made these and drew some exact shapes in between.

Landscape in layers

The colours are changing and it is good to go out there and enjoy them. 

I learn a lot from photography,

you can play around with composition and framing.

And close-ups focus your eye on details and structures.

Inspiration in an old church

Last week I spent my days in an old church. I had the opportunity to work there, 

to be inspired by the light, the silence, the landscape.

I painted, sketched, talked, reflected and met with visitors.

It was good to be there, to work on a specific theme which I had prepared.

And now it is back to my own studio,

to process the results and to continue the theme.