Andrea Modesti Art and Illustration: Alps and Landscapes

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New illustration for the winter issue of the Magazine "Lebenslust Emmental"

A woodcutter screaming towards a snowy forest: here is the illustration for the new short story by Sandra Rutschi "As you call into the forest, it echoes out". Many thanks to the suggestions and precious Art Direction of Marie-Claire Hofstetter!

New illustrations for the new "Lebenslust Emmental" magazine: Beavers in Switzerland (and more)

Explanatory illustration of a Beaver's Lodge, with its interior, the various entrances under the water surface, the surrounding environment. Published in "Lebenslust Emmental" of March 2021 with an article on European beavers in Switzerland and the Emmental.

The cover of the spring issue of the magazine and, next to it, the small illustration published to accompany the novel of the Author Sandra Rutschi (I am happy to have also been able to collaborate with the new direction of the Magazine!).

Lebenslust Emmental Magazin

Village and Landscape Illustrations for "Sorcery: Contested Realm"

The Steppe Card with desert sunset!

In the first vertical version of the Village a small foreground was also drawn. Here a partridge. In the background a typical wooden village of the Swiss Alps (Canton Valais)

In this vertical version another Village and another small foreground scene: a hawk attacks the partridge. In the background there is a typical village of Lower Saxony or Frisia.

These are the final versions in landscape format. I am delighted to have been able to portray some of my favorite European landscapes with these village Cards

It's ready! The new book by Verena Zürcher, with my illustrations

"BILDUNG BEGINNT IN DER NATUR"
("Education begins in Nature": Nature-education discovery trips)
You can browse a preview of the book here:
https://www.waldschulkinder.ch/lehrmittel/sachbuch/
Here are the photos of a couple of my illustrations:

European river landscape with trout and alpine newt

Central European forest with owl, roe deer and great spotted woodpecker

Detail of the hand painted illustration

Alpine coniferous forest with jay

And a review (from the back cover) by the famous wildlife photographer, and Bestseller author,

Frank Hecker, on the beautiful book by Verena Zürcher:

"Ich bin schwer beeindruckt vom Umfang und von der Vielfältigkeit der Herangehensweise. Das gefällt mir ausgesprochen gut, erweitert meinen vielleicht zu biologischen Blick auf die Natur und macht im jeden Fall Lust auf genaueres Lesen. Die Illustrationen sind klasse. Ein tolles Buch."

("I am deeply impressed by the width and variety of the approach. I like that very much, it expands my perhaps too biological view of nature and definitely makes you want to read more deeply. The illustrations are marvellous. A wonderful book." The translation from the German is mine.)