rene fijten sketches

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

  We had temperatures of above 20 degrees this week, very early. I went out to the Brussummerheide, a forest area a few kilometers from my h...

  Portrait in Ink, based on a vintage picture I found on the internet. Could not find the photographer. Washed out ink on Khadi handmade all...

  Quick sketch of a castle standing quite alone in the Brabant landscape. Kasteel Croy. Made 2 weeks ago, forgot to post.

 Another quick sketch made during the Tattoo session at Count your blessings, in Gemert.

  We had a meeting with the Maastricht Urban Sketchers last Saturday. a few hours of drawing, end then a nice beer in one of the cafés. My p...

  My son Mart treated himself to a tattoo. At "Count your blessings" In Gemert, an award winning tatoo shop. It took 2 days to mak...

  Finished another paiting: stilllife inspired by Matisse: our cat Mila behind a basket of oranges. Acrylic on Board, 60x70cm.

  Quick sketch across the canal in Gouda, and asphalt company unloading into ships.

Forgot to scan this drawing from Laboe, Northern Germany. I made this in the harbour, when I needed a break from the exhibition and library ...

 To prepare for an Urban Sketching meeting in Gouda, on April 18th, I visited potential locations to sketch. This is along one of the canals...

  Now this was something special! There was a 1943 German Submarine (the U995) on the shore of the beach in Laboe, just a few 100 meter from...

  My first solo exhibition was opened last Saturday, at the opening of the new library in Laboe (northern Germany, at the sea). The exhibiti...

 Quick sketch while I was waiting for appointment at the dentist, of Hulsberg, as seen from the Wissegracht. The rain started quickly after ...

  I visited the Van Gogh Village museum in Nuenen; he lived there with his parents before he went to France. He painted the "aardappele...

I grew up in the 60s, under the smoke of the coalmine "Emma". I was triggered by an call for art objects by the local museum, Schu...

  I started in 2017, almost 20 years ago, and this is my 2000th blogpost.  A portrait made yesterday, a mondaymorning live portrait session....

  Tiny gouache painting of vase with flowers, for a congratulations card for a former colleague, Wendy.

  Made this inkdrawing entirely on location, last Saturday. Added colours digotally with Gimp.

We had an Urban Sketching Meeting in Maastricht, yesterday. Thew sun shone, it was cold evn though it improved during the day. This was made...