rene fijten sketches

I am a bit slow with drawing and posting lately. To many other things in my hands. No, it's not yet autumn here; this is just a comm...

I made quite a few A5 drawings, the ones that I already posted. I only took time to make one larger image, this one of a fishing boat in...

Two scenes from Crete: the little harbour, which was only 50 meters from the apperment. They brought in fresh fish every morning (if y...

Each morning we would make the little walk into town and have breakfast at a Greek cafe: Stelios. We would sit and have bacon and egg...

This is another drawing that I made during the sketchcrawl. The baroque pulpit of the St. Jans church in Maastricht, halfway the hall. Th...

I am a bit slow with posting presently. So in between the Greece drawings, I'll post the results of the sketchcrawl of yesterday,...

Just returned from our anual holiday trip. This time to Greece, Crete to be more specific. We had a terrific time in a small fishing vil...

Took my coloured ink and made a few random splashes of colour on a sheet of paper. Then I stared at it the hard way, untill I found some...

My latest Glass project, a fused fruit bowl. Made of several sheets of glass, with coloured enamels in between. It was for my mothers bir...

I saw this cute Fiat on the weekly vintage car meting in Brussum. A Fiat 600 Multipla, from 1962. The car was based on a Fiat 600 chassi...

Businesstrip to Frankfurt, after standinng for 2,5 hours ins severe traffic jam (the motorway was totally blocked), we took the byroads....

Thursday evening, at the weekly meeting of vintage car enthousiasts. There was this beautiful Riley from 1950 and MGT from 52, I could n...

My brother in law, Richard Abbink, had an exhibition of watercolours in the Visserijmuseum in Woudrichem last weekend. He makes great wa...

Saw a picture of a 82 year old woman in a magazine, Ellen Jordano. No idea who that is, but her eyes hit me. I wanted to draw something ...

Utrecht Maartensbrug. Not much time to draw the last few weeks. Not that I don't want to, but time escapes me. But I discovered I h...

  I wanted to draw something today. During Lunchtime I sat staring at a fresh new page of my just openened Moleskine sketchbook. Made a...

As some of you may know, I am handling a collaborative comic, "No Right Turn". This is chapter 5. Named after the dete...

I am still working on that collaborative comic: "No right turn". Proceeding slowly, but still proceeding. Chapter 5 is almost f...

The Zuyderland hospital in Sitttard. Only a few years old, state of the art. It was so state of the art with new ways of technology, dig...

These two were sitting across my table, when I was having dinner at the Kentucky Fried Chicken in Sittard. Not my usual hangout, but it...