Yesterdaymorning, during a bussiness trip to the building site in St. Egidien, Germany, I noticed this battered old construction workers cabin.Gisterenmorgen, naast de Knauf bouwplaats in St. Egidien (tussen Leipzig en Dresden), een oude roestige bouwkeet.
Sketches
Friday, 27 February 2009
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
Carnaval in Maastricht
Afgelopen zondag, de carnavalsoptocht in Maastricht. De sambaband Passotempo. Last sunday: the sambaband Passotempo in the streets of Maastricht: a little brazilian sunshine in Limburg. See also the article I wrote for the urban sketchers: http://www.urbansketchers.com/2009/02/carnaval-in-maastricht.html
Friday, 20 February 2009
Kowrenne 2009
Gisteravond op de Mèrt va Gebrook, het Kowrenne!
Dit jaar was ons thema "Delfts Kow".
En ja hoor, het is weer gelukt, de eerste prijs voor de snelste koe van Hoensbroek! De 9e prijs in 12 jaar, een mooi resulaat. En ook de felicitaties voor Kow B met de fantastische "Moskow"!
It's a local tradition, as part of carnaval, to have a running contest on the market of Hoensbroek. Eight local groups each make a wood&paper cow, dress it up in some theme (our theme this year was "Delft cow") and try for the big PRIZE: eternal glory. One sketch shows building the cow in the garage of Franck, one of our group. The other the race itself.
And our "kow H" performed well: we won 2 out of 3 runs.
So I shout loud:
I'm proud to be the fastest cow around!
More pics: http://picasaweb.google.com/Rene.Fijten/Kowrenne2009?authkey=u-nCmJUvqasOther years: see the link "kowrenne"at the right.
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Handen
The hands of my late father in law, Ben Abbink. I drew this shortly before the coffin was closed.
These long tall hands built a family; they played the accordeon, they painted watercolours, they helped, they punished, they guided. They performed magic.
The funeral was yesterday.
De lange smalle handen van mijn schoonvader, getekend vlak voordat de kist werd gesloten. Gisteren hebben wij hem uitgeleide gedaan.
Thursday, 12 February 2009
Ben Abbink †
Gisteren overleed in het ziekenhuis van Heerlen, op 88 jarige leeftijd, mijn schoonvader Ben Abbink. Yesterday my father-in-law died at the age of 88 in the hospital of Heerlen. May he rest in peace.
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Peleosso
The imaginairy city of Peleosso revisited. Op weg naar de imaginaire stad Peleosso. Zie ook http://renefijten.blogspot.com/2008/11/peleosso.html
Sunday, 1 February 2009
La viande chevaline
Tarbes, last week
Back to Tarbes, South of France. Before breakfast I visited the foodmarket in a multistory parkinghouse, just a block away from the hotel. It was 7 o'clock in the morning and the owner was arranging fruit and vegetables in his stall. They were very curious at what I was drawing.
Groentestal in de overdekte markt in Tarbes, vorige week, vlak voor het ontbijt. De man was bezig zijn vers aangevoerde producten uit te stallen.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)