Studio Notes

This landscape drawing captures early spring in the Danish countryside, focusing on the quiet transition between seasons. In early spring, it starts at ground level. Before the trees fully open, the forest floor shifts first. Anemones spread in clusters, low and white, while the rest of the landscape is still holding back. Landscape drawing in colored pencil inspired by early spring in Denmark. The air is lighter, but not yet warm. You hear more than you see — birds moving so

Old photographs, films, and illustrated books are among the things I return to most often when looking for material to draw. I'm particularly interested in Denmark in the early and mid-20th century—not only how places looked, but the details that locate a scene in a particular time: clothing, architecture, railway stations, gardens, furniture, and the landscape itself. Those details often find their way into my own illustrations. Vintage-inspired Danish garden illustration by