Sketches

Saturday 19 May 2012

Garden

I haven't drawn a decent sketch in weeks, too much occupied with work and garden. As Spiderman would say: with a big garden comes big responsibilities. We have something like 800m2 of garden, that's a lot for Dutch standards. And a lot of work too.
After I finished pulling weeds today, I made this drawing of our walnut tree, which stands in the middle of the backlawn in between the 2 gardensheds.
Al een tijdje geen tekeningen meergemaakt, te druk met werk en tuin. De hele hemelvaartvakantie onkruid geruimd, genoeg te doen. Dit is een schets van de walnotenboom in onze achtertuin.

5 comments:

Flo said...

Mooie, Rene. Looks like a peaceful space in the town.

Rene Fijten said...

Yes, thank you. And without a boat ;)

LuTi said...

wow, you can easily call it a farmland!! (speaking in Dutch standards :) )
But you are absolutely right : if you do not like to have jungle in your backyard than you have to invest some time for weeding your garden !

schilderijenfoto said...

wat leuk om te zien. En een originele afmeting.

Rene Fijten said...

When I feel my back, a jungle sounds like a good idea.
De afmeting had ik gezien in een tekening van Shari Blaukopf. Wilde ik ook proberen. Alleen haar schets was uiteindelijk veel beter. Nog wat mee experimenteren dus.