Heerlen: Glass palace

 

Glaspaleis / Schunck. My city used to be rich and bursting of energy, in the coal mining era. In 1930 a department stote commisioned the architect Peutz to design a store. It resulted in this fully glassed square building, with elegant and visible columns, thin cantilevered concrete floors and a penthouse for the Schunck family. It's nearly 100 years old but could have been made today. It;s a museum and library now. This morning I picked my painting up from the exhibition there.

 

Valkenburg (3)

Also the Urban Sketching meeting in Valkenburg, a very quick one, maybe 10-15 minutes. The man was actually a statue, so he did not move :) .
 

Something different

 A random image of a face, inspired by an image I saw on Pinterest. Just fun to do. Sepia ink and watercolour on Khadi paper.

Valkenburg (2)

Here another sketch of the Urban Sketching Meeting of last saturday in Valkenburg.
 

Valkenburg: USk.

 

The Maastricht Urban Sketchers met today in Valkenburg. The group was about 12 people, we even had three from Eupen (Belgium) with us. The weather was lovely. I managed to make 3 drawings, this is one of them.

 

Bones

 

Something random. Just started doodling.

Amsterdam

 

My wife and I had a few nice days off to celebrate our wedding anniversary: one to Utrecht, one to Amsterdam. I managed to make these 2 quickies on the Prinsengracht.