rene fijten sketches

 Doodling around with sepia ink and watercolour.

  My wife retired last Thursday. She has worked as a primary school teacher with 10 to 11 year olds, and has been doing it for over 35 years...

  Made a nice bike trip today, came across this old 1915 waterpump station, decided to draw it. Sepia ink in a Pentel parrallel fountain pen...

    I made a trip to Laboe, at the Ostsee, in the north of Germany. Driving back I decided to make a little detour to visit Bergen-Belsen. T...

  Abother drawing of the National Dutch Urban Sketching weekend.In the Hague on Saturday, I made another Illustrated Cityscape drawing like ...

  I helped organize a National Dutch Urban Sketching weekend. Saturday 20th in the Hague, Sunday at the beach in Scheveningen. It was really...

  I went to a vintage car meeting yesterday, the Cruise-In Summer Series in Heerlen. There was this beautiful brown-black Chevrolet Impala S...

  A drawing inspired by a similar subject by Joao Santos.

 The church of Amstenrade, just maybe 500 meters from my house. Yes I live in Hoensbroek,but the citylimits are approximately at my backgard...

  This afterrnoon, I took a nice ride on my bike, wanted to draw some cows, couln't find hem, so I drew this old farmhouse instead. It...

  Glaspaleis / Schunck. My city used to be rich and bursting of energy, in the coal mining era. In 1930 a department stote commisioned the a...

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 :) ...

 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.

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

  The Maastricht Urban Sketchers met today in Valkenburg. The group was about 12 people, we even had three from Eupen (Belgium) with us. The...

  Something random. Just started doodling.

  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 qu...

  I am very proud that one of my paintings was selected for the exhibition "Passaasj" in Heerlen. Out of 500 artists (both profess...

  Last Saturday I helped organize a National Urban Sketching Netherlands day. This time in Gouda. I had visited Gouda for preparation purpos...

  Live portrait session, with palette knife, last monday.50x60 acrylic..