Some time ago I took part in a workshop where we were shown how to turn leaves and fruit of different types of trees into natural inks. First we took a walk through the outskirts of town and picked the material, then we produced the inks and tried them out on paper. Among others we used fruits of maple trees, mahony or elder berries.
Combining the spontaneity of watercolors and the controlled outline drawings of fine marker pens can lead to quite interesting results…
Talking a walk through the forest, watching spring flowers everywhere and listening only to the sounds of nature can be really comforting at times.
I´m currently doing a printmaking workshop in a papermaking museum. These are some monotype prints, done with oil-based inks and a printing press. Tomorrow we will do lithography which I haven´t done for ages. I´m really curious about the results…
I have always loved the airy quality of watercolour and enjoyed painting with them back at school. Now I´ve started again…
It has been a long time since I last did some paintings using watercolours. But I got some high quality paints and brushes for Christmas so I decided to give it another try. The results are quite interesting, although they don´t have this very light quality of a typical watercolour painting. With these works I was more interested in layering different watercolours.
Nature is always such a rich source of inspiration, especially in fall…
Lately I’ve been somehow obsessed with nature drawings.
Leaves and flowers are slowly withering as fall is arriving, so I did some ink drawings of this natural process.
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