rene fijten sketches

  Another project, another style.  This is the design for a new stained glass window, the Ark of Noah.  I visited an exhibition on a...

Last wednesday I ran my weekly short round, 8km circling Oirsbeek, Merkelbeek and Amstenrade. The sun set beautifully over the hills. I w...

I felt like sketching this evening. Stayed close to home this time. A gate in one of the outbuildings of the Castle of Amstenrade, just ...

I started with this drawing during lunchtime on Friday, without any idea where it would lead to. I set off with an idea about a whale fly...

At last, after months of painstaking work, I finished my first real stained glass window. I did it all by myself: the image, the design...

Last friday I visited the Floriade in Venlo with a group of fellow architects of the BNA. The floriade is a park exhibition organise...

I had to spend a day in our Tebodin office in Eindhoven. We could not get outside during luchtime. So I decided to draw the view from ...

Last saturday my mother turned 80. A genuine milestone. We organised a family gathering with dinner and bowling in the castle of Limbric...

The final art class was last saturday. I can hardly wait untill the holidays are over for a new series of model/portrait painting. Eve...

  Our artclass, together with other amateur artists from the VAZOM artschool, were invited to a group exhibition in the old cityhall o...

Yesterday we went to Pinkpop, which is one of the largest popfestivals in Europe, just a few kilometers from my house. The event takes ...

Three for Ackland. The Urban Sketchers organisation asked us to contribute to an exposition, in order to raise money for the U...

The castle of Amstenrade, a few hundred meters from my house. I made this drawing before I returned home after work. While I was drawin...

I haven't drawn a decent sketch in weeks, too much occupied with work and garden. As Spiderman would say: with a big garden comes big...

  Sketch of the Blue Mosque, (Sultan Ahmet Camii), as seen from our hotel room, nr. 308 of the Citadel Hotel in Istanbul. This is the la...

The top sketch is of the Topkapi palace; the famous palace of the Sultan and his thousand wife's. It's a labyrinth of buildin...

Another day, another terrace within the Bazaar, another cup of coffee. The man on the table next to us ( I think they were a Russian coupl...

Two days after my return from Louisiana and the sketchcrawl, my wife and I left for Istanbul for our wedding anniversary. That was alr...

Two more of the paintings that I drew during the sketchcrawl, made in the library, looking through the large windows to the rain outs...

Nico Jamin and I organised a sketchcrawl event in Heerlen, already almost 2 weeks ago (time flies). At first it was raining, we even had...