rene fijten sketches

  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).  

  The coming few months there is an exhibition of my painting works in Laboe, Germany. 15 of my paintings (oil, acrylic and/or watercolour) ...

  Live portrait session, this morning at the atleier Annemeik Jongen, Armand. Washed out pastel on paper.

  Last Sunday (our last day in Greece) we were driving to the Lassithi plateau, in the middle of Crete. It was Sunday morning, and we were s...

  Another drawing from Greece, I spotted this little boat under repair in the harbour of Agios Nikolaos. Pencil and ink on location, waterco...

  Just returned from Crete, Greece. We had a great week with lovely weather. This is the view from our appartment, overlooking the hills, th...

  Clemensdomein, in Brunssum, near Merkelbeek. It's an old church (from about 1000AD), a few km from my house. For years this church was...

  Finished another oil painting, on board (MDF) 50x60cm. It is called: "Coney Island after the rain", and was based on a picture I...

  This afternoon, drinig with my bicycle through the hills near our house. Quick ink sketch (with reed pen) and some watercolour on Canson a...

  Went to a vintage car meeting in Heerlen (Cruise-in). I have drawn on these occasions before, always nice to see real old cars. This was a...

  Next installment of my AI game. I used the Nike of Samothrace drawing (with colours) to generate a prompt. As stated in the last post, it ...

  As you can see I gave the ink drawing of the last AI experiment installment some shades. (done with a pentel Parrallel pen which has non-p...