rene fijten sketches

Sketch made during luchtime on a flea market (brocante) in Vise, Belgium in my moleskine sketchbook. The woman was selling hand made birdcag...

Toulouse last week. A picture of an ordinary suburban house in the street opposite the Mercure hotel in Toulouse. Vorige week in Toulouse: ...

I found this vintage WW2 truck just 2 blocks from my home, in Mariarade (Hoensbroek). A Citroen T23, produced between 1937 and 1948. It was...

Tamara. It's the name of my son's girlfriend. Also the name of city nr.6 in Italo Calvino's book "the invisible cities...

Holiday. We visited to Liege today, it was very hot. A boy was seeking refreshment sitting on a lion on a fountain next to the cathedral. W...

I was on our building site in Lannemezan, France, about 2 weeks ago. A view to our neighbour, the aluminium plant Alcan, and in the backgro...

Holiday. We spend a nice long weekend in a hotel in the south of the Ardennes, Belgium near the French border. Good food, fine hotel, long w...

Experimenting with colours: tried shaded trees on a hot day. Source Rami Efal.

Stayed in the Rex hotel in Tarbes last week. In the same hotel the french police arrested the Tour-de-france cyclist Duenas on EPO use yest...

During the French course, we made a walk through the center of Spa. "la ville de Spa glorifie des héros 1914-1918"

Someone lost this cute small puppet (15mm long) in our hall. It ended up on our cactus. Gevonden: dit kleine poppetje. Hij zit nu op een ca...

During my French course I had to follow SpeedLingua: music, pictures and pronounciation excersises. I saw this picture maybe 10 times. No id...

"Je fais des esquisses á n'importe quelle heure". Voilà, une des phrases trésor que j’ai appris dans le cours en langue frança...

Nico, the trainer of our runninggroup STAP-brunssum has decided to retire. He was there for us each sunday for the last 10 years (and god kn...

Rianne, my daughter passed her exams this week! Rianne is geslaagd voor het VWO!

Visiting the south of France again. I stayed in Tarbes, in the fantastic design hotel "Rex". Once again a picture of my (bath)roo...

Last friday Gertie and I went to the Grönemeyer concert in the Borussia stadium in Mönchen Gladbach. This time we had no seats, but we saw t...

Last week I made a trip to France again. I was bored in the business lounge; so I made some sketches using my brushpen.

At last, last thursday we moved to our new house. Eindelijk verhuisd.

Still busy moving. Painters at work.