rene fijten sketches

  Monday morning live portrait session. Oilpainting on canvas, 40x50 cm. We worked two mornings on the same model. Last week we did the unde...

Quick portrait in black ink. After a picture somewhere.  

  Recently fnished another painting. It's a scene of an subway underpass somewhere in Brooklyn. It's an oil painting 50x60cm. Unfort...

  The 26th, Second Christmas day, our children and grandchildren were here for a festive dinner. It was a great family moment. After dinner ...

Best wishes for the Christmas days and may 2026 be a year of enjoyment and good health. (based on a gouache painting I made on location in ...

  I am secretary of the Association of Dutrch Urban Sketchers. We have 2 new boardmembers, and one leaving, to get o know each other we had ...

  A guy sitting in front of the entrance of a supermarket at the Helmstraat in Maastricht. I quietly observed him from the other side of the...

  Maastricht, de Helmstraat. This morning. Ink and watercolour in a A5 Moleskine watercolour sketchbook.

  Two quick ink drawings, made this afternoon, based on pictures from the Internet, a photo by M. Odekerken (left) and a picture of some unk...

  My aunt Leny, living in Amersfoort, will celebrate her 100th birthday tomorrow. As a present I painted a scene of Amersfoort, at the Elleb...

  Anja, monday morning live portrait session. Same technique as last week. Took 2 hours to make.

  Some experimenting this morning. A live portrait session, Armand this time. Acrylic paint and charcoal. on bamboo paper treated with tilem...

  Sometimes our grandchild Zara (now 5 years old) stays over, and she always asks me to make a comic story together. We invent a story, she ...

Spinalonga was formerly a leprosy island, untill 1950 or so (when medicine came available). The area is a well known tourist attraction, and...

Last Friday and Saturday, Gertie and I sang in the Limburgs Concert Choir, for the Dutch premiere of the renowned symfony "Adiemus...

 Ran a trial run yesterday, through mud and rain, through forests and narrow cartroads. 12,5km, >200m height difference, in 1 hour 18 min...

  Another AI experiment. I started with the images of the last post ( ai-images (4) the wing , september), the drawing and its AI-image (top...

Two quick sketches I made while enjoying coffee at a terrace, somewhere in Crete. Top one: the Lassithi plateau, fields with windmills and f...

  Anoter live portrait session, with washed out pastel colours only. I painted the same model before, see  https://renefijten.blogspot.com/2...

A row of windmills on the edge of the Lassithi plateau, in the center of Crete (Greece).