Sketches
Thursday 25 April 2024
Leiden: St. Peterchurch
Sunday 21 April 2024
Leiden usk sketchday
We organised another national Urban sketcher sketchday. This time in Leiden. A beautiful city to draw in, unfortunately the weather was not very good: strong chilly wind and low temperatures (10 degrees C). But worst of all, some occosional and sudden rainshowers. Real Dutch weather. This drawing was a victim of the rain: as I had finished inking the rain soaked my sketchbook. You can still see the leaking ink and blotches. Anyway, despite the weather we had a great day. Nice to see the 250 participants joining us all over the city. This is the view from the fortress on top of the city, with a nice view over the rooftops.
Friday 19 April 2024
Tuesday 16 April 2024
Bookbinding
For a holiday, later this year, I wanted to create a sketchbook of my own design. with different types of paper, and another size. So I made my own sketchbook with a size about 19x19cm, which I finished it yesterday. I used "Coptic binding", a bookbinding system that enables to keep your book totally flat. Handy for sketching. It was fun to do, I hope it will work out well.
Sunday 7 April 2024
Supergrandpa
Well, I could not have made that story up :). Here is the illustration.
Friday 5 April 2024
Tasja Cicak 25 years.
Tuesday 2 April 2024
Monday 1 April 2024
Maastricht: centre Ceramique
Last friday, the magazine corner of the main Maastricht Library. There is a nice coffee corner, where I could make this drawings. I don't think she noticed me drawing.
Saturday 30 March 2024
Maastricht: Laank Gresje
Yesterday I could get out sketching again. Maastricht, Laank Gresje. That is the local dialect for: Lange gracht, or in English: the Long canal). On the right you can see the remnants of the inner fortifications wall. Maastricht was always fought over.
Thursday 21 March 2024
Copenhagen: Sne-Sol
Sne Sol: a self-built wooden house in the alternative community Christiania, Copenhagen. All houses here were self built. I talked with one of the inhabitants: all houses had their own names, like: the red dragon, Buddha's lounge, the pentagon etc. According to him Sne-sol meant: the sun reflecting in the snow. A beautiful name.
Saturday 16 March 2024
Copenhagen: Nyhavn
I made three drawings in Copenhagen, this was the last one. A beautiful old harbour with coloured houses, very pretty. But it was very very cold, my fingers where aching when I finished the ink work. I knew the watercolour wouldn't dry, it usually spoils the drawing. So I decided to colour it digitally at home. Done with Gimp.
Tuesday 12 March 2024
Copenhagen
After the meetings in Malmö I took a day off to visit Copenhagen, just across the water. This is a church with a peculiar twisted tower, near Christiania, the "Vor Frelsers Kirke".
Friday 8 March 2024
Malmö: foodcourt
Quick sketch of two guys eating a burger. At the foodcourt of the Emporium shopping mall in Malmö: the Se7en Sin Burger restaurant. I was enjoying a Pokebowl myself.
Wednesday 6 March 2024
Malmö: harbour
Business trip to Sweden, Malmö. I had to attend a meeting for a project to improvements Kidney treatment on a sustainable way. Very intersting.
I managed to go out and sketch on location: this is a sketch I made on early monday morning, in the harbour of Malmö. It was very cold, but I sat protected against the wind, it was manageable.
Sunday 25 February 2024
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky, composer. After a B/W picture from the Internet.
Holbein acrylic gouache on toned paper.
Friday 16 February 2024
Friday 9 February 2024
Swimming lessons
This afternoon. Waiting for my grandson to finish his swimming lessons, at the swimming pool in Sittard. This father was bored as well, but I have a sketchbook :)
Thursday 8 February 2024
Sunday 4 February 2024
Nieuwe Hateboer
Friday 19 January 2024
Hoensbroek in the snow
Thick packs of snow in our region, all in just one day, 20-25 cm. That was something we didn't see for a long time. I remember it from my youth, but it is probably getting rarer. Anyway, I had half an hour left this morning, and I rushed to make a snow scene on location. The Castle of Hoensbroek, as seen from my (warm and cosy) car on the parking lot. A4 toned paper, gouache paint, brushpen and black ink.
Wednesday 17 January 2024
Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp. Even as a young boy I was fascinated by this futurist/dadaist/surrealist artist, I would devour all available books from our local library. I especially like "The bride stripped...", which I still don't understand.
Anyway, it is painted after I black and white picture I found (from the NYT). With acrylic gouache, on black toned paper, A4. It was quite complicated to translate the black and white into colour tones.
Sunday 14 January 2024
Sunday 7 January 2024
Philip Glass
Philip Glass, my all time favourite composer. I went to a lot of concerts with his compositions, even saw him perform his work personnaly a few times. Based on a picture from the NYT, and a youtube tutorial of Emily Hues.
Lately I tried to handle gouache, but somehow it didn't work for me. So I bought a set of high quality japanese stuff: Holbein acrylic gouache. This is my first try, so far I am really pleased how it behaves.
Thursday 4 January 2024
Roermond house
Roermond, last saturday, with Ruud Otten.
Drawing a house, protected against the chilly wind by the wall of a shopping mall. Someone made a picture of us both; we were so concentrated we didn't even notice :)