Plants I encountered on the Kungsleden, part 2. I was getting in more difficult terrain identifying the different species with these pages, though still managable. There are some formidable tools for that online! Mainly https://identify.plantnet.org/, but I also stumbled across this really lovely blog: https://www.wunderbares-lappland.de/pflanzendesnordens/ Done based on reference photos from the hike and other references found online. Ordered roughly by when we encountered the plants and the terrain they grow in.

Should have been doing other things, but this one apparently wanted to be finished first.

Travelling on foot and train produces apparently very similar images

Happy Easter, everybody! I felt in the mood for hand-paintedd eggs this year. No matter whether you celebrate, I hope you‘re all having a lovely holiday 🌷🐣🌱

Sometimes, being there for a friend means wrapping them up in a pancake. Works wonders after a long, tiring day. Have you tried it yet :)?

Happy New Year everybody! I had actually intended my first post in 2024 to be the last part of my Kungsleden watercolours. And then I had a look at my latest posts and felt that, really, cramming more landscapes in was a bit repetitive. So, how about plants from the Kungsleden instead? Mind you, these were done at home, based on reference photos (by me and some more sourced from the internet). They are ordered roughly by when we encountered them and the terrain they grow in.

Third winter landscape. I like how they’ve turned out super different so far. Hope all of you are having a lovely few days in between the holdidays — anybody else here, who thinks they are among the best days of the year?

Hm, I believe this might not be the last one!

Winter in Northern Germany :) I noticed on my last train ride that you can't easily find this sort of wintery landscape on Google, where everything is cheesy thick blankets of snow on pine trees, terribly oversatured colours and a general overdose of kitsch. So, here goes far skies, colourful greys and a feeling of melacnholic wistfulness.

Oh, and if I might recommend a good wintery soundtrack to that: Zorya by Czech artist Tomáš Dvořák, alias Floex https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/6Ed3AofNpF8OXD5BtgPUeR

AI Regulation now!

Guys, AI is all over the place. Artists in Europe and the USA are rallying against it and in case you find, that some regulation really is in order, I would hereby very much like to advertise the European initative EGAIR (European Guild for Artifical Intelligence Regulation) to you: https://www.egair.eu/ They have written a proper manifesto, detailing at length why we are in dire need of AI regulation, if this is going to be an essential part of media creation and consumption in the future. The initiative has a big and growing list of established organisations backing them, like the European Illustrators' Forum, Initiative Urheberrecht, Illustratoren Organsiation, Association of Illustrators, Concept Art Association – to name but a few. If you are of the same opinion and would like to support the cause, you can sign the manifesto here: https://www.change.org/p/sign-the-manifesto-protect-our-art-and-data-from-ai-companies?recruiter=218156216&recruited_by_id=40bdf6b0-a32b-11e4-a6ff-e7e0ae340e15&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=petition_dashboard

You might not believe it due to my usual choice of subjects, but sometimes I draw people, too! Last summer I had an exhibition supervision shift where business was slow and coloured pencils were at hand :D.

One holiday, several impressions. Feels a bit unbalanced to counter the airy watercolours with the much heavier digital night paintings here, but seperating them for reasons of style just didn't feel right. From top to bottom: 1) Agropoli harbour in the wee hours of the morning

2) Agropoli harbour at night

3) View from our balcony, right down the street

4) Agropoli harbour at dusk

5) waiting for our flight in Naples. They are not all anatomically on point but I like the linework in most of them :).

Holiday paintings from the Kungsleden, part 3:

More Kungsleden watercolours! 1) View from the highest point of the Kungsleden: The Tjätkja pass. Seeing the expanse of this landscape, the beautiful colours, all those textures and its remoteness was very moving and it feels so special to me that I got the opportunity to paint and thus spend a little longer in this place, feasting my eyes and filling my heart. 2) Saying Goodbye to the trail by having lunch in the harbour with perfect views of Njulla. 3) Murky afternoon at Alesjaure. We walked a bit further past the hiking cabins and found a good spot for wild camping halfway down the lake. Alesjaure greeted us in the wildest shade of turquoise next morning. 4) Lunch break up at Tarfala, looking at one of the glaciers. I cooled down so much from sitting still and painting, that it took me 1,5 h walking downhill again, before my fingers weren't numb anymore. You can find Kungsleden part 1 here: https://chintzmann.tumblr.com/post/725753382562840576/i-spent-my-holidays-hiking-the-kungsleden-in

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