Foodmarket in Tarbes

Tarbes, foodmarket in a multi-storey carpark. Local farmers selling their stuff, at 7 am in the morning. Tarbes, parkeergarage. Lokale boertjes verkopen hun eigen producten in de vroege morgen.

Maastricht, Jodenstraat

Maastricht Jodenstraat

art class 13

The results of my last art class, last saturday. Live model drawing watercolour. Modelschilderen: de resulaten van afgelopen zaterdag.

Ville propre

Tarbes, while sketching the shopwindow of the earlier post, this streetcleaningmachine came by.

Een Straatveegmachine, om 7 uur s' morgens in Tarbes, Frankrijk.

Les dessous de Shaya

Business trip to Tarbes, France again. Bottom sketch: view from room 508 of the Rex hotel, always a fascinating panorama. On fridaymorning I got up an hour early to sketch, but the only nice thing I noticed was this shopwindow. Zakenreis naar Tarbes (FR), vorige week. Uitzicht vanuit kamer 508 van het Rex hotel. Op vrijdagmorgen een uur eerder opgestaan om buiten te schetsen, maar het was nog steeds donker. Het enige interssante was deze etalage.

art class 12

Art class, watercolour wet in wet after a live model. I was surprised to find that these splashes of colour really looked like the guy. Some kick. Schildercursus, vanmorgen, aquarel nat-in-nat, naar een echt, levend model.

Garden in the snow

Sketch of some objects in the garden of some friends, Franck and Hellen. I was struck by the contrast of the red masonry and the cool coloured snow. Schets van enkele objecten in de tuin van Franck en Hellen, in de sneeuw van afgelopen zaterdag.

Scrapyard in the snow

Tractor scrapyard in the snow, in Moelingen, Belgium. It's on the border between the Netherlands and Belgium. Drawn during lunchbreak last thursday. Sloopbedrijf van tractoren, in Moelingen, Belgie. Getekend tijdens de lunchpauze, afgelopen donderdag.

Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury's book "the martian chronicles": that was the kind of science fiction I loved when I was young. Unfortunately I lost the book; but last summer in London I retrieved a copy in a specialised bookstore.

When I read it, I remembered that in my schooldays me and my friends used to make random ballpoint scribbles in our schoolbooks. And we challenged each other to make some drawing out of it, something like "Europe after the rain" by Max Ernst.

After opening some dusty boxes I found this sketch back, dating from about '74 (bottom drawing).

For me this drawing is the visual representation of the world described in the "martian chronicles". And I could not resist redoing the drawing in my moleskine, 35 years later.

Albina's book

A moleskine exchange book got lost between the Netherlands and Russia. I remade 2 drawings, one from Thalia (Peru) called "flowers" , and my own called "Jonas and the whale". Een moleskine exchange boek is kwijtgeraakt; daarom heb ik de tekeningen van Thalia en mijzelf overnieuw gemaakt.

Nude

Experimenting with wet-in-wet watercolour, 2 versions based on a picture of craig mullins.

Eekhoorntje

This little squirrel was eating the nuts we left in the birdhouse in our garden. The birds did not seem to mind. Een eekhoorntje at de nootjes in het vogelhuisje; eigenlijk voor de vogels bedoeld, maar pimpelmeesjes bleven gewoon dooreten. Onze achtertuin op 1e kerstdag.

School in Brunssum

Brunssum, a sketch done on location, of an old schoolbuilding being torn down. It makes place for an annex to the hospital. There was still a little snow around. Sloop van het Delta-college gebouw, Brunssum

art class 10&11

Week 10 was pastels; I was not pleased with the result. Now moving to watercolour, experiments in wet-in-wet, that's more to my taste. Modeltekenen: de afgelopen week eindelijk aquarel: veel leuker dan pastel. Experimenten in nat-in-nat.

Faces

Not the regular artclass, but experimenting with brush and watercolour.

Weihnachtsmarkt

Yesterday I visited the Weihnachtsmarkt in Aachen. It was freezing. This is next to the reibekuchen und backfish stall Fuhrmann.

Gistermiddag op de Kerstmarkt in Aken. Vrieskoud, zelfs de Glühwein hielp niet meer.

Art class 8&9

The results of art class of two weeks ago was horrible, to be forgotten quickly.

But I kind of liked the drawing of last saturday: see above, a drawing of the teacher herself.

Drawing from life is very hard, also considering that I have to master new techniques like pastel as well.

Modeltekenen: die van twee weken geleden wil ik graag vergeten. Maar hierboven het resultaat van het afgelopen weekeinde.

Sinterklaas

At December 5th Dutch people give each other presents, often in the form of a surprise, accompanied by a long poem. I made these presents&poems for my family. Sinterklaas surprises, gemaakt voor (vlnr): Gertie, Mart, Bob, Rianne en Brenda.

Rianne's kamer

The student room of my daughter, Rianne, who studies in Maastricht. Part of a surprise present for the feast of Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas). Sinterklaassurprise voor Rianne. Haar kamer in Maastricht.

Leenderheide

While driving to Amsterdam, to the Simple Minds concert, we got caught in a hailstorm near Leenderheide. It was 16.55, Gertie was driving. I made a quick scribble, and made the drawing at home, by memory. Hagelstorm onderweg naar het Simple Minds concert, bij Leenderheide.