An open sketchbook held in a hand, featuring colorful landscape paintings on both pages, depicting mountains, trees, and a river with vibrant colors and abstract shapes.

These are the colours that artist Alexia Winterhalter says she chooses “when it’s too hot outside.”

An open sketchbook held in a person's hand, featuring colorful landscape paintings on each page. The left page depicts pink flowers in a vibrant natural setting with mountains and a lake, while the right page shows similar flowers against a backdrop of rolling hills and bright colors.

The “tiny French artist based in the Italian mountains,” as she describes herself, has a huge following – not just for her creative colour sketchbooks, but also for videos and her monthly postcard+sticker.

A colorful artistic illustration in a sketchbook featuring a scenic landscape with a winding path, colorful flowers, green trees, and a bright red sun in the sky, surrounded by decorative borders.

“iโ€™m so ready for summer,” she wrote about this sketchbook set. “flowers and green pastures, the wind in my hair, birds chirping in the forest. sleeping up in the mountains and climbing on big rocks. running at dawn and sitting outside after dusk. YES.”

An open sketchbook held by a hand, featuring two pages: one with colorful geometric patterns and swatches of paint, and the other depicting a vibrant landscape of mountains, a river, and trees.

The sketchbook spread from the top of the post (full image, below) was done for Our Planet Week, 2026.

An open sketchbook held by a person, featuring a colorful landscape painting with mountains, a river, and blooming flowers under a blue sky.

There’s so much more, often with accompanying colour diagrams, on her Instagram, here.

Winterhalter’s prints, originals and stickers are offered via her store, here. She’s on Patreon, here.


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