ABOUT LITTLE ADVENTURES

Little Adventures are start-to-finish illustration courses designed to be doable, repeatable, and full of small wins. Every adventure follows four simple steps — study, prepare, practice, and imagine — that make creating feel manageable and fun. You'll study your inspiration, prepare your supplies, practice with project breakdowns, and then imagine your finished illustration into something wonderfully your own. It's how I work in my own studio, one small steady step at a time.

IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES

A cairn is already a kind of magic — stones balanced against gravity, holding each other up. In Stonesfell, you'll paint a watercolor cairn that becomes something more: a stacked world of tiny cottages, twisting branches, snails, dragons, and unexpected details tucked between the rocks. You'll begin by studying three types of stones — granite, wishing stones, and story stones — learning how salt, paper towel lifts, and dropped color create texture that makes each one feel genuinely found. From there you'll practice the supporting cast of details before bringing it all together in a start-to-finish illustration on a single 9×12 sheet of paper. The workbook closes with a gallery of four sample cairn scenes — each with line art and a finished painting — to study, copy, and spark ideas of your own.

UNLOCK A NEW SKILL

With a background in graphic design and fine art, I create illustrations that tell hidden stories. The skill at the heart of Stonesfell is learning to paint stone with real weight and light — not a gray shape, but something that holds warmth on one side and shadow on the other, with texture that shifts depending on how the paint dries. You'll learn to watch the water, time your brush, and let the paint do unexpected things rather than fighting them. That patience — knowing when to step in and when to let the wash settle — is what separates stones that look like stones from stones that look like they've been sitting in a riverbed for a hundred years.

BUILD YOUR CRAFT

Stonesfell is structured so that by the time you arrive at the full illustration, every element already feels familiar in your hands. The stone studies come first — three varieties, each practiced separately with specific techniques. Then the element breakdown page lets you sketch and paint the full cast of the scene: stones, cottages, branches, snails, mushrooms, flowers, dragons, moss, and ribbons — each on its own before they're stacked together. There's even a DIY cutout practice where you paint a whole sheet of stones, cut them out, and move them around to test compositions before committing. It's a slow, pleasurably methodical process that builds the kind of confidence only repetition creates, creating a depth that shorter classes simply can't match.

WHAT YOU GET

This adventure includes a generous downloadable PDF workbook with everything from start to finish. Inside you'll find the study and inspiration notes, supply reference pages, stone technique samples showing salt, paper towel lifts, and dropped color in action, a full element breakdown reference page (line art and finished color), DIY practice pages, start-to-finish project notes with matching line art and finished illustration, and a gallery of four additional sample cairn scenes — each shown as line art and completed painting — all yours to download, print, and keep.

LEARN OFFLINE, ANYTIME

Every course includes a dedicated Start Here lesson — your personal download hub where all your packets and videos are organized and waiting for you. Save everything to your device and keep learning wherever you are, whenever you want.