rene fijten sketches

  I went to Amsterdam to attend a lecture for my Master, at the University of Amsterdam. After the session I went to a new project, the resi...

  A raodside little farm, in a village along the Loire, east of Saumur, France.

  View from the balcony of our caravan towards the neighbour.

  I just returned from a nice holiday in France, the Loire valley. A camping site near Saumur. It was very hot, unrelenting high temperature...

 Study in black ink.

 This is the little square in from of the Matthiaskerk in Maastricht. Or should I say very wide street? Anyway, it has some of the best terr...

  I organized a sketching afternoon for the Urban Sketchers Maastricht group; about 10 sketchers showed up. I made this one of the Matthiasc...

 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.