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# Inside My Nest

Each word a twig, each pattern a thread—woven into a nest of stillness

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## Posts

- [Watercolour Green Ash Leaf Botanical Illustration in Procreate (Step-by-Step Tutorial)](https://www.insidemynest.com/watercolour-green-ash-leaf-botanical-illustration-in-procreate-pdf-tutorial/) - Bring the elegance of nature into your digital sketchbook with this ash leaf botanical illustration tutorial—designed especially for Procreate and created using the Realistic Watercolour Brush & Canvas Set. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist exploring digital watercolour, this guided lesson will help you develop a clean, minimalistic style like real watercolour. Title: Green Ash Leaf Botanical
- [How to Import & Use Custom Brushes in Procreate](https://www.insidemynest.com/how-to-import-use-custom-brushes-in-procreate/) - Procreate is a powerhouse drawing app designed for iPad, favoured by many digital artists for its intuitive interface and powerful features. One of its best features is the ability to use custom brushes—perfect for adding a unique touch to your artwork. Whether you've downloaded brushes from online marketplaces like Etsy, Gumroad, Creative Market, or bought one
- [116 Free Floral Procreate Colour Palettes](https://www.insidemynest.com/procreate-colour-palettes/) - I have put together a collection of floral Procreate colour palettes that can be used with the Procreate colour picker tool. To use them in Procreate, click on any palette from below to open a new tab with the image. Then save it on to your iPad, and add it as an image to your
- [A Quick & Easy Step-by-Step Tree Drawing for Beginners](https://www.insidemynest.com/a-quick-easy-step-by-step-tree-drawing-for-beginners/) - This quick and easy step-by-step guide is designed especially for beginners who want to learn how to draw a simple yet natural-looking tree. By breaking the process down into clear, manageable steps, you’ll gain confidence and create a tree drawing you can be proud of in no time — no fancy tools or skills needed
- [Eucalyptus in Botanical Illustration](https://www.insidemynest.com/eucalyptus-in-botanical-illustration/) - Form, Structure, and the Quiet Shift from Sketchbook to Pattern Eucalyptus is a plant shaped by restraint. Its leaves do not crowd one another, its branches allow air and light to pass through, and its growth follows a logic that favours efficiency over display. For the botanical illustrator, this makes eucalyptus an especially revealing subject—one
- [Quiet Journal Time: Filling a Page with Geometric Patterns](https://www.insidemynest.com/quiet-journal-time-filling-a-page-with-geometric-patterns/) - In the quieter margins of the day—before the noise gathers, before attention is claimed by tasks and obligations—there is a small interval where the mind becomes receptive again. A page lies open. A pen rests lightly in the hand. Nothing urgent asks to be said. Yet something begins. A line appears, then another. A small
- [Morning Light & The Pattern of Life](https://www.insidemynest.com/about-pages-of-stillness-patterns-of-the-sacred/) - Morning light drifts through the trees. Nearby, a pair of birds flit back and forth, gathering what they need to build their nest. Nothing is wasted. Nothing is rushed. Each return carries only what can be held, shaped by beak and instinct, fitted into a structure that will not last forever—but will last long enough.
- [Watercolour Hydrangea Bloom Botanical Illustration in Procreate (Step-by-Step Tutorial)](https://www.insidemynest.com/watercolour-hydrangea-botanical-illustration-procreate-pdf-tutorial/) - Whether you're a digital artist or a traditional watercolour enthusiast, this step-by-step tutorial will guide you through painting a detailed hydrangea botanical illustration using watercolour techniques. Title: Watercolour Hydrangea Cluster Bloom Medium: Procreate Tools: Realistic Watercolour Brush & Canvas Set for Procreate Skill Level: Intermediate Time to Complete: 6-7 hours Watercolour Hydrangea Bloom (in Procreate) Step-by-Step Tutorial
- [Illustrating an Orchid in Procreate: A Quiet Practice of Observation & Watercolour](https://www.insidemynest.com/watercolour-orchid-tutorial-in-procreate/) - Learn how to illustrate an orchid plant in Procreate using the Realistic Watercolour Brush & Canvas Set. A calm, step-by-step botanical illustration process with a time-lapse video. Spending time with these graceful plants encourages a slower kind of attention. Their shapes reveal themselves gradually, asking to be observed rather than rushed. To draw them is to
- [Watercolour Illustration Of A Blue Butterfly on a Fading Rose Branch (In Procreate)](https://www.insidemynest.com/step-by-step-botanical-illustration-rose-procreate/) - In this tutorial, we’ll be illustrating a fading rose branch with a delicate blue butterfly sitting on it, using Procreate and my Realistic Watercolour Brush & Canvas Set. This project is all about finding beauty in the quiet, imperfect details—wilted petals, muted colours, and the delicate contrast of a blue butterfly bringing colour into the composition. Title: A Blue Butterfly
- [How to Paint Realistic Watercolour in Procreate](https://www.insidemynest.com/how-to-paint-realistic-watercolour-in-procreate/) - Digital watercolour has come a long way, but it can still feel a little too clean sometimes. Real watercolour is unpredictable — it blooms, it granulates, it bleeds softly at the edges. In this guide, I’ll walk you through how to paint realistic watercolour in Procreate using a simple, thoughtful workflow. You can adapt this method
- [Building Depth in Procreate Watercolour Paintings](https://www.insidemynest.com/building-depth-in-procreate-watercolour-paintings/) - Creating convincing depth in digital watercolour can feel challenging at first. Traditional watercolour naturally builds dimension through transparent layering, pigment separation, soft bleeds, and paper texture. In Procreate, however, we have to intentionally recreate those qualities. The good news is that with the right brush workflow and a thoughtful layering process, you can achieve beautifully
- [What You’ll Find Here](https://www.insidemynest.com/insidemynest-what-youll-find-here/) - This is a space for those who seek the quiet:the slow turning of pages,the unfolding of a leaf,the secret geometry hidden in petals, spirals, and stars. I move between words and patterns,between Islamic theology, philosophy, and art,between sacred geometry and the hidden truths of symmetry and silence. I work these patterns because they are expressions
- [Procreate Realistic Watercolour Brush & Canvas Set](https://www.insidemynest.com/procreate-realistic-watercolour-minimalist-brush-set/) - For artists who love the organic and textured feel of watercolour but crave the flexibility of digital tools, my first brush set for Procreate delivers that kind of experience. This is an improved version of my original minimalist set—featuring expressive textures, dry brush strokes, splatter stamps, and enhanced watercolour effects. This set achieves the look
- [Where I Buy My Art Supplies](https://www.insidemynest.com/jacksons-art-supplies/) - I’ve tried a few art supply stores over the years, but Jackson’s is the one I use most often. Because they’re the kind of store that actually feels like it was built for artists by artists. The selection is great, the quality is solid, and they carry both well-known brands and some hidden gems I wouldn’t have
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## Pages

- [Notes from the Morning Light](https://www.insidemynest.com/) - Morning light finds its way in quietly, settling across the page as ink begins to move. Journalling, like the slow work of dawn, asks for nothing hurried—only a willingness to return, to notice, to gather the small fragments of thought and feeling that might otherwise pass unseen. Each entry becomes a gentle act of shaping,
- [What I Use for Writing & Illustration](https://www.insidemynest.com/art-supplies/) - I work across a range of mediums, each chosen for its unique ability to reveal something different: Coloured Pencils Procreate
- [Patterns of the Infinite](https://www.insidemynest.com/islamic-geometric-arabesque-art/) - Light shifts and repeats in quiet ways—across leaves, along water, through the steady unfolding of form. Patterns emerge not by force, but through a patient returning, each line echoing the last while becoming something new. In these rhythms, there is both structure and openness, a sense that even the smallest shape belongs to something far
- [Down to Earth, Rooted in Stillness, Crafted by Hand—Our Handmade Clay Store](https://www.insidemynest.com/handmade-ceramics-pottery/) - There is a quiet power in stillness—a grounding force that slows the rush of modern life and reconnects us with the earth beneath our feet. Our handmade clay pieces are born from this place of calm, shaped by hands that honour the natural rhythms of clay and time. Inspired by the rugged beauty of raw
- [Notes, Reflections & Quiet Writing](https://www.insidemynest.com/journal-page-writing/) - In this space, observation unfolds not in haste, but in the quiet rhythm of reflection, wonder, and attentive care. Here, you will find insight, tools, examples, and inspiration — not only for drawing or writing, but for contemplating the deeper textures of life and existence themselves. These pages are an invitation to linger with the
- [Join Us](https://www.insidemynest.com/membership/) - Membership & Community Programme I am in the early planning stages of initiating a subscription based Membership & Community programme, here within Inside My Nest. For a set monthly/annual fee, members will benefit from: Free access to all PDF Workbooks (past and future) Free access to a library of all of my hand-illustrations and other
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- [Sample Page](https://www.insidemynest.com/sample-page/) - This is an example page. It's different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this: Hi there! I'm a bike messenger

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- [Patterns of the Infinite: Geometry of Unity, Symmetry & Interlacing Forms](https://www.insidemynest.com/category/islamic-geometry-art/)
- [Patterns of the Infinite: Organic Geometry, Symmetry & the Language of Nature](https://www.insidemynest.com/category/geometry-patterns-in-nature/)

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