Art for the Outdoorsy Soul
I paint the way awe feels.
Art for the Outdoorsy Soul
Paintings to manifest more time outside. Lungs filled with fresh air. Sun invigorating our skin.
Little and so free
We are part of nature and not so separate. We feel most alive when we're little among mountains and oceans. It's the way nature intended.
I paint the way awe feels
White space for the pause. Palette knife strokes for movement. Small ink human figure to show our humbling scale among a vast natural world.
Behind the paintings
White space invites focus and complete immersion in the present moment, referred to as a state of flow.
Palette knife strokes carry the movement of rock, water, sky, and trail.
Sand texture grounds our outdoor experiences in the earth below our feet.
Little Dude is a reminder of our human scale inside a vast natural world.
Meet Brooke Hirsheimer
Before becoming a full-time artist, I worked at World Wildlife Fund, a global conservation organization. My lifelong love of the outdoors took me to trails around the world, including the Swiss Alps, where the first Little Dude sketches appeared in my notebook as tiny black-and-white figures wandering through very big landscapes.
What began as a private sketchbook practice slowly became my visual language for awe. I filled more than 30 sketchbooks with Little Dude's adventures, using the simple human silhouette to capture the strange relief of feeling small in wild places.
I pull from my conservation roots to highlight the inextricable link between humanity and a thriving natural world. I hope Little Dude offers a playful tribute to awe and the outdoor spaces that help us come home to ourselves.
Little Dude has appeared in
An invitation outside
I aim for each Little Dude painting to be a gentle nudge to get outside. Consider them an invitation to create more moments feeling little among the vastness of the natural world. That feeling of awe is medicine for the soul.
With GratiDude, Brooke