rene fijten sketches

Portrait of Klaus Kinski, an actor. At least, I tried to draw him.  

  Based on a picture I took from a cab driving us from Manhattan to the New Jersey airport in 2019. A study in tonal quality. Ink ad waterco...

  For my birthday I recieved a handmade fully glass inkpen. I finally got around trying it out. I made this drawing with it. It is a totally...

  Portrait, based on a picture of de upcoming Nosferatu movie. Willem Dafoe. Ink and watercolour.

  Just a quick scribble sketch, nothing serious or realistic. Based on a picture of the Staten Island ship graveyard.

  Also painted on location, acrylic gouache on toned papeer, the cathedral of 's Hertogenbosch.

  Nightpainting:  a view of a shopwindow across the street of the previous image. Also a new experience: During painting I chatted with a to...

 For the first time since the start (2017) of Urban sketching Netherlands Foundation (of which I have been board member and secretary from d...

No time (and weather) to go out to sketch. Based on apicture I made this summer of a large cow in Leuse, France. Ink and watercolour pencil.

  Painting in acrylic gouache. I found the picture of her on Pinterest, but it was gone before I knew who it was or who made the photograph....

I had a business appointment in Belgium, in Heist op den Berg. On the other side of the road there was this quite bizarre building, and I co...

  A surprise gift for a collegue who left our company a month ago. As a hobby he restores old MG cars. Among others this MG-TF 1957, which w...

      This morning I went painting in the park behind the castle of Amstenrade (just about 1 km from my house). It was not cold, and I was b...

  I made these two paintings on location, in Leuze, France. The subject was to make them in two different colour themes. Below you see the r...

  An excercise in faces, at a live painting session. Two of about twelve that I made in about 2 hours. First a few strokes of wax. Then a fe...

I was in Aachen (Germany) last friday. A view from the terrace of the major bookshop there, Meyrische.

  Model class again. This time a highly pregnant woman. We had to scratch te paper with a wax candle, then use watercolour, and add a few in...

Some random quick sketches of faces, after pictures I found on the internet. Made during lunchbreaks Normally I go for a short walk with col...

  During the National sketchday in Roermond, I initiated two challenges. The first was on the market: you had to make 4 or 5 little sketches...

  Painting with acrylic gouache again. This time based on a picture I found on the internet (probably AI). In my moleskine sketchbook, size ...