Nina Johansson

It´s been kind of quiet here for a while due to work that always builds up around this time of the year, but the workload is finally getting…

I don´t support the human habit of stuffing animals, I think it´s actually quite sickening, but when I get a chance I can´t help but looking, studying their…

Riddarholmen is one of the islands that Stockholm was built on. It´s also one of few islands in the city where noone lives anymore. The old buildings and…

I tried the Derwent Inktense pencils for the first time today, and they sure are intense. I barely touched the paper with them, and all the colours went…

Partly inspired by Karen Winters and partly by my painting students who paint incredible still lives in acrylic and oil without drawing first (because I force them to),…

This little shop is just two minutes from my home, and I´ve been wanting to draw it for I don´t know how long. It´s got such a classical…

Patty over at The Drawing Club posted a drawing grid a while ago (see here) and asked if anyone was interested in joining her in drawing more grids.…

I spent most of yesterday outside in a forest. My students had an outdoor day, practicing orienteering. I sat by one of the controls in a deep pine…

“How to paint flowers in watercolors” is not a favourite book title in my world – I´m not really into this botanical thing. Sure, flowers are great, I…

I just realized I had two more watercolor paintings from july scanned and ready for posting, and it´s about time I put them on my blog now. This…