Friends, I'm very excited to announce I'm starting PORTRAIT COMMISSIONS! and I'm doing a #GIVEAWAY of two custom portraits!! Check out the link to my google form to enter the giveaway and/or to commission me for a portrait! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #art #illustration #ArtistForHire

Same landscape and more or less same colour palette as the quick sketch from 2 days ago, but I tried a few new brushes. Was especially interested to find a different way to do the foliage of the birch trees… #landscapeart #sketch #drawing #illustration #bskyart #digitaldrawing

The result of Sunday’s self-portrait session! By the way, I’ll be launching portrait commissions soon and I’ll be giving away a free portrait to celebrate the launch!! I’ll share all the details later this week! #art #illustration #portraitillustration #portrait #digitalillustration #selfportrait

Quick #sketch from this morning. Same landscape as the vibrant pink/red one I shared recently… I will stick with this landscape this week and do different versions of it, using different colour pallettes and different brushes to experiment a little bit and see what works well and what doesn’t… #art

Self-portrait Sunday!! Working on another self-portrait today! I think this one is turning out quite well… by the way, I’ll be launching portrait commissions next week, and I’ll be giving away a FREE PORTRAIT to get things started! Details will follow in a few days! #artist #illustration #portrait

PORTRAIT COMMISSIONS! I’m going to launch portrait commissions very soon, I’m excited! I’ve been thinking about doing this for a while now. If you’re interested in having a portrait made, just send me a message! I’ll share all the details next week!! #art #portraits #commissions #artistforhire

New Substack Post, launching my Ancestral Art series: In this new series I'll be taking you on my creative journey blending genealogy and visual story telling with the goal to connect with my ancestors more deeply. Here's how I got started! #art #genealogy #illustration #portraits

Working on some art inspired by my ancestors. Experimenting a bit with combining digital drawing and collaging parts of old photographs and recolouring them. I think I like the result… #illustration #bskyart #art #sketchbook

Finished this portrait of Jane Goodall for my Inspiring Women series today. Pretty happy with the result, what do you think? #illustration #editorial #portraits #inspiringwomen

Wanted to use a fiery color palette for my quick sketch today. It's bold but I kind of like the result I think. What do you think? #bskyart #sketchbook #digitalart #illustration #drawing

Working on another portrait for my Inspiring Women series, can you guess who? #art #ilustration #portraitillustration #digitalillustration

A 40 minute quick sketch. I need to do more of these quick studies. Put on a timer and some nice music and just go for it without too much thinking. The result often feels so much more dynamic than anything I spend hours or even days working on… #art #illustration #landscapes #digitalpainting

I’m starting a series of posts about Inspiring Women on Substack. I’ll create a portrait, share their story and some creative exercises for you to help you integrate and embody the inspiring energy of that woman. The first post is about Hilma af Klint!

For anyone who needs to hear this! Life is sweeter because of you! ❤️ A greeting card I illustrated a few years ago, you might still find it at a Trader Joe's if you're lucky... #illustration #art #inspiration #upliftingquotes #artlicensing

A recent portrait I illustrated of Lozen, an Apache warrior for my Inspiring Women series. #illustration #art #inspiringwomen #nativeamerican #portraits

#MothMay - Scarce Forester Moth! I enjoyed drawing this one which seemed simple but had so much lovely glittery texture 😍 #illustration #art #drawing #sketchbook

Today's work in progress... love this colourful lady. #inspiringwomen #artprocess #portraits #digitaldrawing #irisapfel #illustration

Just a little reminder, my sale ends on Friday! Final chance to get some of my travel inspired art prints!

Some work in progress, wanted to draw some landscapes today. Still need to finish the landscape in the front but I also kind of like the roughness of it... This is the town my grandparents & other ancestors lived, based on some source material from 150 years ago, it looks very different now though!

Little sneak peak of something I'm working on... I've started working on an ancestral art project with portraits and landscapes related to my ancestors. I'll explain it in detail in one of my next substack posts... #art #ancestry #portraits #illustration #passionproject

Hello everybody, Happy Friday!! I'm doing a CLEAROUT SALE of my travel inspired ART PRINTS in my shop before I take down the listings and change the workings of my shop, so if you had an eye on any of my prints, now is the moment to buy!! www.somewhereinthewild.com #artsale #artprints #landscapes

Hello friends! I've been MIA for 6 weeks, sorry! I disappeared again mid #MothMay... I fear I ran out of steam once again... and I wondered why, oh why, do I always run out of steam after I start something full of enthousiasm? #illustration #artistlife #portraits #bskyart

Relaunching my Substack and my first post in a long time is live now! Go check it out! #creativerebirth #art #illustration

Been working on my first new Substack post in 5 months (will be published tomorrow). And I've got a whole bunch of posts planned out already too. I don't think I've ever been this organised! This poppy drawing is totally unrelated though 😅 #drawing #art #sketchbook #digitaldrawing #artistlife

Another one of my #quicksketches of Bagan in Myanmar. Been thinking about Myanmar after the big earthquake last week. Absolutely devastating for the people there who were already in such hardship. They also fear the temples in Bagan were badly damaged... #illustration #landscapes #bskyart #art

Just in case you’re wondering, yes, I’m still in beautiful Bali. Though I did recently book a flight back home for the end of August. Will be great to reconnect with family and friends again before I head out to Asia once again... #nomadlife #landscapeart #artbsky #landscapes #digitalillustration

Closeup detail of my portrait of NASA engineer Mary Jackson. #illustration #bskyart #artyear #portraits #digitallustration

Hello friends! I've been MIA for 6 weeks, sorry! I disappeared again mid #MothMay... I fear I ran out of steam once again... and I wondered why, oh why, do I always run out of steam after I start something full of enthousiasm? #illustration #artistlife #portraits #bskyart

Some work in progress for the proposal I'm working on right now... hoping to send it to publishers soon. Fingers crossed this project will find a publisher!! 🤞🤞 #illustration #portraits #digitalart

#MothMay - Emperor Moth! Love how this one turned out! #drawing #art #sketchbook #digitalpainting

#MothMay - Scarce Forester Moth! I enjoyed drawing this one which seemed simple but had so much lovely glittery texture 😍 #illustration #art #drawing #sketchbook

#MothMay - Scarlet Tiger Moth! Missed a few, but finally managed to get this one done today! That already feels like a major accomplishment 😆 #drawing #sketchbook #art #bskyart

A video of the Balinese procession and cremation ceremony yesterday... What a way to leave this world!

Ahh, was not my plan to miss #mothmay on the 2nd day already - will try to catch up on Saturday... had the opportunity to go watch an Ngaben ceremony and afterwards we had a total power and internet cut in all of Bali til about midnight so I couldn't even access any reference images 😬

Hello everybody! It's the 1st of May, one of my favourite months of the year (as it is also my birthday month 😆) and today we're starting a new art challenge - #MothMay!! Who else is joining?? #illustration #sketchbook #drawing #MintMoth

Tina Modotti's photograph of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with members of the Artists' Union, on the May Day March, Mexico City, 1929 #womensart #MayDay

'Bluebells at Wisley' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #womensart

Been working all week long on a spring greeting card, procrastinating a lot, still not done... took one element of the card drew a background in 5min and voila, something that I like way better than the actual card!! 😆🙄 #illustration #sketchbook #art

Finished some client work last week that was taking me forever to finish, and making some good progress on a proposal to send to publishers today. Feels good to ✅️ those boxes... Also mentally preparing for getting started on #MothMay on Thursday 😄 I think I'm ready! 🦋

Imagine having a little meditation cave that looks like this, gorgeous 🧘🏼‍♀️❤️

Was just thinking about Orange, the cat of the homestay I'm staying at in Bali before I read this post by Merriam-Webster 😆

Ooooh, this sounds like fun!! Though I'm really good at saying that I'm going to do a drawing challenge and then 2-3 drawings in not finding the time or energy to continue 🙃 but moths sound easy and quick enough as a little warm up before getting to my real work...

At the end of my rice paddy walk this morning I discovered this magical place 😍

Happy Easter everybody! This is what I did this morning instead of going on an Easter egg hunt 😁

I've been MIA most of last week while diving into some family history for a future art project and getting completely and utterly engrossed in it 😆 It is fascinating finding out about family members 300 years ago! Anyway, here's a quick sketch from Ronda, Spain from a while back! #illustration

Going to try to join #jehanesgoldenthread again. She started a new quarterly theme for her weekly prompts this week. The theme is Go Wild and this week's inspiration is Sweet Cheetah! Who else is joining? #artchallenge #illustration #drawing #digitalpainting

Love this little corner of this illustration 🩷 #illustration #bskyart #vibrantart ##digitalillustration #art

Closeup detail of my portrait of NASA engineer Mary Jackson. #illustration #bskyart #artyear #portraits #digitallustration

Going to try to join #jehanesgoldenthread again. She started a new quarterly theme for her weekly prompts this week. The theme is Go Wild and this week's inspiration is Sweet Cheetah! Who else is joining? #artchallenge #illustration #drawing #digitalpainting