TODAY'S FEATURED POST
A Portrait in 5 Layers
After my post in March on Applying Transparent Color in Photoshop, I received a number of messages, emails and threats asking for more detail on the order of layers I prefer to use. As I mentioned in that post, I often end up working in hundreds of layers so a list of this would read like a phone book of seemingly random Photoshop gibberish. And listen, I need my layers! Partly because I love the…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Garden Birds
January 6, 2025 - I am starting a new project: Garden Birds. Its a fully illustrated book about the 50 most common birds in the garden in Scandinavia. There is a lot of those books out there, but whats different with this one is that its not a field guide its more an inspirational book that shows all the interesting little behaviors and details about birds that most people know. In order for me to capture all these details I have started sketching in on each species. I started with Wrens; my favorite bird. And moved on to Robin. This week I am doing house sparrow and sparrow hawk. The plan is to sketch and discover my way through all of the 50 birds, combine it with field studies and photos of ordinary birds doing ordinary bird things. After…
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