Shop details:
My books
Wall calendars
Art prints
Other products
Originals
My Finnish shop
Copyrights and work:
Image use & licensing
Commissions, projects, etc
Art process and tools:
Art tools and techniques
My camera
My books
My newest book Faraway Dreaming is available for purchase directly from the publisher Atthis Arts. The book ships from the United States, and international shipping is available. If you are a bookseller interested in Faraway Dreaming, please contact Atthis Arts! The hardcover book is essentially a visual art book, but there is also a musical audiobook version of my story Faraway Dreaming, which can be found on Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple Music. The audiobook is performed by George Montrelle.
My self-published books (such as Woodlands, Tiny Black Fox, A Month of Ink and Dusk Magic Colouring Art Book) are not currently available for purchase. These were my limited edition self-publications and are out of stock. If any of these books are reprinted in the future, you will find that information right here on my website!
Other book illustrations: In addition to creating my own books, I’ve illustrated books for other writers and publishers, including the Nordic Tales collection for Chronicle Books, and also a few Finnish children’s books for various publishers. I’ve also created cover art and fantasy maps for various other publications. If you have questions about a particular book’s availability, I recommend contacting the publisher of the book you’re interested in.
Wall calendars
Wall calendars that I’ve illustrated and designed are available from my publisher Atthis Arts (USA). Calendars are shipped from the United States, and international shipping is available too.
Please note that my 2026 Calendar is now sold out, and no more will be printed. If you’d like to be notified when next year’s (2027) calendar is available, there’s a Ulla Thynell Calendar Signup at the publisher’s website!
Art prints
My art prints are nowadays available from two online shops, INPRNT and Printler.
INPRNT
The largest selection of my art prints can be found on INPRNT. Their production takes place in the United States, and worldwide shipping is available. They make gallery-quality giclée art prints on 100% cotton rag archival paper, printed with archival inks. Both framed and unframed options are available in various print sizes.
PRINTLER
If you’d like to get my prints shipped from EU, there’s Printler. Printler is a print-on-demand company based in the European Union, and they offer posters, canvas prints and framed fine art prints. The print production for the European market takes place in Sweden, and for the US market their prints are produced in the US.
Printler ships to all countries inside the European Union + Norway, Switzerland and UK, as well as USA. If you can’t find your country listed in the shipping options during checkout, make sure that you are using your local version of the site. You can find the country dropdown menu on the top right corner in the shop (there’s a button that shows a flag and currency). Remember to select your country from that menu before you start adding items to the cart. The generic EU version of the site should only be used if your country is not listed at the flag dropdown menu.
Note: I’m not in charge of the print production, sales, or shipping on INPRNT or Printler, and I don’t have access to any of the orders or customer information. If you have questions or need help with your order, please contact the shop’s own customer service.
Other products
Society6 offers various home decor and stationery products with my art, such as wall tapestries, jigsaw puzzles, notebooks, zipper pouches, etc. Society6 is based in the USA and they ship orders only to the United States. Please note that I’m not in charge of the Society6 website, production, sales, or shipping, and I don’t have access to any of the customer information or orders. If you have questions or need help with your order, please contact the Society6 customer support, linked on the Society6 website.
Originals
Original works are available for sale every now and then in my own Finnish pop-up shop. (See details below.)
I don’t currently ship original artworks outside Finland, sorry! If I start planning an international original art sale at any point in the future, I will announce it here and on my social media.
My Finnish shop
Kotimainen tuotemyyntini on päättynyt 1.12.2025 ja jää tauolle toistaiseksi. Tällä hetkellä minulla ei vielä ole suunnitelmia kaupan uudelleen avaamisesta, mutta sitten jos myyntiin tulee taas sopiva hetki jossain vaiheessa myöhemmin, ilmoittelen asiasta täällä ja some-kanavissani. Julisteita, taideprinttejä, taidekirjoja ja kalentereita on edelleen saatavissa ulkomaisista verkkokaupoista, jotka toimittavat myös Suomeen. Löydät kaikki linkit täältä.
My Finnish pop-up shop ships orders within Finland only. The shop is closed at the moment.
Image use & licensing
Please do not publish, repost or copy any of my images (or parts of them), unless I have personally given you written permission for the image use. All my artworks, illustrations, designs, photography and product photos are protected by copyright and may not be used for any purpose without my permission.
Publishing rights or other permissions to images are typically only given to commission clients and others who have made a contract with me and paid a licensing fee. I am not currently available for discussion on new permission or licensing agreements, sorry. If you don’t already have my permission to use the image in question, please don’t use it.
Additional notes:
• You are welcome to share my social media posts by using the social media’s original share button. Please do not download, copy or screenshot my images in order to repost. If there is no sharing button on the original post, it means you are not allowed to share the content.
• If you buy a physical item (like a wall tapestry, print, etc), it’s usually OK to share your own photograph of the purchase on your social media.
• Books are naturally protected by copyright too, so you should always ask the permission from the book’s publisher before sharing any of a book’s interior contents online.
• I don’t sell tattoo designs or tickets.
• I never sell my work as NFTs. If you ever see my art offered as NFTs, it’s a scam – meaning that they illegally stole my work.
Commissions, projects, etc
Please note that I am not currently available for new clients/projects (including commissions, collaborations, freelance work, interviews, licensing, etc). Whenever I have time and energy to discuss these topics again, I will update this info page.
Art tools and techniques
There’s no quick or easy answer to the question “which art medium do you use” – it depends on the piece. I have worked with many different techniques and styles, including (but not limited to) these:
– Calligraphy ink paintings
– Alcohol ink paintings
– Watercolour paintings
– Acrylic paintings
– Black & white ink drawings
– Gel pen drawings
– Pencil drawings
– Colour pencil drawings
– Mixed media paintings and drawings (traditional tools only)
– Mixed media paintings and drawings (combinations of traditional and digital tools)
– Sketchbook work with varied drawing and painting tools
– Animations using various different traditional drawing and painting tools and/or drawing tablet, with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Animate (previously Flash) and/or Premiere Pro
I like to modify my style, techniques and tools based on what is available or which style suits best with whatever idea or project I’m working on. Some of the techniques that are great for personal and more intuitive or experimental artwork, may not be suitable for commissions that require lots of pre-planning. I’m also often curious to try doing things a little differently than before to see where it leads me. Spontaneous experiments and variation keeps things alive and interesting! I sometimes talk a bit about my art process on my blog – you can find those articles over here.
These are some of the tools I’ve used recently:
Drawings: For black&white drawings I mostly use Micron pigment ink pens. For colour drawings I use various tools but most often Caran d’Ache Luminance 6901 colour pencils, coloured ink liners, and sometimes also alcohol markers. Lately I’ve also been using some gel pens for mixed media drawings (for example Sakura Gelly Roll series).
Watercolours: I haven’t done that much watercolour work lately (not as much as I used to in the past) but when I do I often use various Schmincke watercolour pans. I like to use masking fluid to create negative space or highlights. I prefer 300 gsm heavyweight, textured watercolour paper.
Ink paintings: I’ve made two types of ink paintings, using either calligraphy ink or alcohol ink. These two types of ink are very different from each other. Honestly, I do not recommend buying alcohol ink just for paintings, for various very good reasons. You will most likely be disappointed and find out that alcohol ink is very problematic and too expensive medium for paintings. I have written a long blog article about painting with alcohol inks and drawing with coloured pencils (including process video clips), because people kept asking and asking how I made those paintings. You can read the article here. Please note that I made that article and the process videos purely for entertainment purposes. They’re NOT meant as a tutorial. For ink painting I would genrally recommend trying some other types of ink.
For calligraphy ink paintings I use Zeichentusche ink bottles from Rohrer & Klingner with textured watercolour papers. R&K inks are also great for detailed painting with a paintbrush. They feel somewhat similar to watercolours, but the difference is that the ink will become permanent, and that you can get darker and more saturated colours than with watercolour.
I also typically use mixed traditional media with my ink paintings, drawing some details with colour pencils (Caran d’Ache Luminance 6901) or using other drawing tools like ink liners or Sakura Gelly Roll pens. Sometimes I even create illustrations using ink painting together with Photoshop.
Papers: I use a lot of different paper types, depending on the medium and size of the piece, or what I happen to have available at the time. It’s really impossible to name a single brand or type of paper because I change them so often. But generally speaking, for watercolour and calligraphy ink paintings I usually prefer natural white 100% cotton 300gsm rough textured watercolour paper, from brands like Sennelier or Fabriano, and sometimes I also use Hahnemühle Bamboo 265gsm paper, which is a more fragile paper type (don’t use this with masking fluid).
For my experimental paintings with Copic alcohol inks I use smooth drawing papers, around 200gsm, but beware that the alcohol ink will bleed through, stain everything and the process is super messy and impractical (which is why I don’t usually recommend this techique for anyone). :)
Sketchbook: If you are wondering about the little square sketchbook with rounded corners that I often use: I previously had Royal Talens Art Creation sketchbooks for several years, however I kept having recurring problems with the sketchbooks’ durability (the binding was weak and pages got loose), so nowadays I’m using a very similar looking 12×12 cm and 9×14 cm sketchbooks from Sakura, hoping that it will last longer. What comes to tools that I use with sketchbook work – it varies a lot. From Micron ink pens, to opaque gel pens, alcohol markers, coloured pencils, watercolours or calligraphy inks, and different combinations of these tools. Currently (2025) I’m doing a lot of colour drawings on my sketchbook with Sakura Gellyroll Moonlight pens.
Digital and mixed media: While a large portion of my work are entirely or mostly handmade drawings and paintings, I also do a ton of traditional+digital mixed media artwork. Often this means that I first draw a black & white illustration traditionally, then add colour to it digitally, sometimes using hand painted elements to add texture. However, I also sometimes create more painterly illustrations with “tradigital” technique, so that I paint and draw several separate pieces/elements traditionally, and then scan, combine and edit the layers digitally. I usually use Adobe Photoshop for digital editing.
My camera
I use Canon EOS 6D digital camera and two Sigma Art f/1.4 A DG HSM lenses: 24 mm and 50 mm. I especially love taking phots with wide aperture during the long hours of the northern dusk, just before and after sunset. I photograph with RAW image mode and usually edit my photos in Photoshop / Camera Raw. I’ve written an article about night sky photography in my blog, you can find it here.