rene fijten sketches

  Clemensdomein, in Brunssum, near Merkelbeek. It's an old church (from about 1000AD), a few km from my house. For years this church was...

  Finished another oil painting, on board (MDF) 50x60cm. It is called: "Coney Island after the rain", and was based on a picture I...

  This afternoon, drinig with my bicycle through the hills near our house. Quick ink sketch (with reed pen) and some watercolour on Canson a...

  Went to a vintage car meeting in Heerlen (Cruise-in). I have drawn on these occasions before, always nice to see real old cars. This was a...

  Next installment of my AI game. I used the Nike of Samothrace drawing (with colours) to generate a prompt. As stated in the last post, it ...

  As you can see I gave the ink drawing of the last AI experiment installment some shades. (done with a pentel Parrallel pen which has non-p...

  Ran a half marathon yesterday. In Heerlen, the Obvion run. Finished at 1 hour 58 minutes as number 304 out of 450 runners. The weather was...

A sketch I made on a nice warm afternoon, in a small Hamlet called Terstraten, a few kilometers from my house. Already zome weeks ago, but h...

  During the painting week we made quick sketches on the market of Fraise. Forecast was rain, so we visited the place and took the sketches ...

Two paintings I made in the painting week in France, based on the leaves and trees in the garden. The top one is a birch tree, made on board...

Last week I attended to a painting week in France, in the Vosges region. We did 5 days of painting with a lovely group, under the guidance o...

  Another view of the castle, this time overlooking the city and the Loire.

  Just returned from a lovely holiday in France, in the Loire valley. We stayed at a holiday camp near Saumur, together with my son and our ...

  I made this painting on request of my grandson, Jake. He wanted something with planets and rockets. So I made this one, size 50x60cm. He w...

I made above ink drawing (another step after the last AI image of the previous session, I added the Greek statue of Nike of Samothrace, it c...

  An experiment with creative use of AI.  I used an old drawing (La piscine des erreurs, from september 2016), applied reverse prompting a...

  Forgot to post this one. Not 100% content, but that's okay. My aunt lives in Amersfoort, she is 99 years old, will be 100 in November....

  Just returned from a trip with my bike. Went to Helle, a small hamlet near my town. I stood in the fileds, along a footpath (which is part...

  I went to the Linkin Park concert in Arnhem, last Thursday. Together with my son, Mart. A great concert and a valuable father-son moment.

  We organized another National Urban Sketching day in Amersfoort. There were about 300 sketchers in town. Even gthough it was quite hot (...