rene fijten sketches

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

  Last live portrait session before the holiday. Agnes, oil paint on board, 40x50 cm. Took me about 2 hours to make. IT was a long time sinc...

  2 pages from my sketchbook: made this morning: the ruins of the former castle of Stein. I was in the neighbourhood for some bicycle mainte...

I was cycling through Heerlen, when I happened to spot this beautiful, freshly restored Nash from 1951. It stood on a parking lot, luckily I...

  2 fantasy monsters, just scribbling away.

Started a new painting, after a picture I took on Coney Island, NY, in 2019. In the sketch you can see the Ferris wheel between the building...

  Another one from the Maastricht Urban Sketching meeting. Het Faliezustersklooster. Made rather quick, maybe half an hour.

I organized an Urban sketching meeting in Maastricht. We were about 12 sketchers, it was nice weather and we had a great day. Above the grou...

  2 pages from my sketchbook: drawing architecture at the "Raketenstation" in Hombroich (Germany). According to the rumours the NA...

  After te rain stopped, I went to this view, to paint the long rows of former coke ovens. I made a sketch years ago on the same location ( ...

  Painting made in an old, abandoned cokes producing plant in Germany, Zeche Zollverein. It was raining outside, So I deceided to paint a de...

  Live portrait session, Wil. Acrylic on paper, 50x70cm.

  Drawing of the side of the Jacobuskerk (Jacob church). It was a secluded little square, quite popular to draw.

  I just had a great weekend. Not only did I visit my good friend Igor (which I hadn't seen since my study days, 35 years ago) and his l...

  Straight from the easel at a live portrait session. Jelle, the son of Annemiek, my art/painting teacher. I am rather pleased with the resu...

  Visited Amsterdam yesterday. To the Anselm Kiefer exhibition "Sag mir wo die blumen sind" in the Van Gogh and Amsterdam Stedelij...

 I saw this little Maria prayer station on a side street in Hasselt.

Hasselt, a town in Belgium, this morning. I had to go there for a hip-operation of our cat, Yoda.

  I made a trip on my bike this afternoon; came across this old farmhouse in Weustenrade (just a few km from my house).

  I didn't feel like drawing the St. Jan monastry itself, but decided to go for the beautiful Magnolia trees, which were just about to b...