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Creatively Honoring the Season

by Louise | Moments in Nature, Nature Art | Collections

Can you feel the new season? In the northern hemisphere, autumn is well and truly on its way. Even in Spain, I can see the leaves changing and our mornings have that fresh crispness to the air that tells me that cooler days are on their way. Above: Autumn leaves...

Autumn Leaves Colour Story

by Louise | Classes & Gatherings, Colour Stories | Palettes, Nature Art | Collections

I am back in the UK for a couple of week and it has been wonderful to explore Autumn here. Crispy leaves on the ground, amazing colours of browns, yellows and reds. I spent some time adding a new sketch to my Nature Trail Sketchbook to record some of the lovely shapes...

New video: Watercolour Journal Page and Precious Pressed Petals

by Louise | Classes & Gatherings, Nature Art | Collections, Sketchbook

This is my favourite sketchbook page so far. We are about to embark on adding more mixed media into our Nature Trail Sketchbooks so I wanted to show you the wonder of pressed flowers and also my re-ignited love of watercolour paint. I shared the page below on my...

Nature Trail Collections: Cone, feather and shells

by Louise | Classes & Gatherings, Nature Art | Collections, Sketchbook

I have been spending time this week again, collecting for the #NatureTrailSketchbook class and thought I would share this collection I placed together. Some lovely diverse shapes and I also realised everything is either white, cream or brown. Such a soothing natural...

A Video and Sketchbook Sneak Peek {hibiscus}

by Louise | Classes & Gatherings, Creative Challenges, Nature Art | Collections, Sketchbook

I’ve been having a wonderful time creating more pages in my #NatureTrailSketchbook from class. We are just on day 8 and already I have close to three sketchbooks on the go! Today I thought I would create one more piece for the Monthly Challenge and I recorded a...

Nature Stamping {Monday Mandala}

by Louise | Monday Mandala, Nature Art | Collections

My brand new class “Nature Trail Sketchbook” starts on Saturday and I have been having lots of fun recording video and writing up inspirational posts for the 30 day class. Over the weekend, I played with making my own rubber stamps so thought I would...