rene fijten sketches

Drawn yesterday, from a viewpoint on the path along the Juliana channel. All the while I was listening to the radio, total in horror about t...

  Making a walk with your pet became a popular pastime during Corona days. As seen this afternoon on the Jeugrubbenweg in Hoensbroek.

  Our Castle (Hoensbroek). This is the Plague tower, meant to quarantine the sick in medieval times. It wouldn't have enough room for th...

  I am not very fond of this drawing. It was cold and drizzling, I stood on the Market on Maastricht. A guy was waiting in front of a restau...

  Drawing of Fabienne, based on a picture by Marij Ruyters-Teeuwen, our Neighbour.

  Another try on watercolour. Same theme, thunderclouds. But now transposed on the view from the Harbour of Hellevoetsluis (translates as: t...

Trying out watercolours. After an example by Dan Marshall. On Fabriano paper.

  It was cold this afternoon, just above freezing, with a strong wind. Watercold we call that here. But I really wanted to go out and draw s...

 

Gerald Roethof, a well known Dutch lawyer. After a picture in last weekend's newspaper. Washed out ink.

To finish the year. The darkest hour is always just before dawn. Maybe a good motto to start the year. The drawing is based on an image in t...

  Earlier this year I made a painting of an old 70s car, A Citroën Ami. It was a commision for the anniversary of an aquintance who owns thi...

  Gertie, my wife, became 60 this weekend. We hired a few cottages in a holidaycamp, and spent the weekend with our children, in-laws and gr...

Drawing based on a live model sketch. I read a book about Egon Schiele, tried his way of drawing and use of gouache.

A dreary Friday afternoon. I wanted to draw something outside, but it was too cold. Just started driving country roads, and ended up on the ...

 Ink works. Inspired by work of Jason Shawn Alexander.

 No further comment. Just drawing.

  Last saturday I attended live model drawing class. But I didn't like my final paintings. So I tried again this evening, based on one o...

Live model drawing session: sketches. Each about 6 minutes.  

Gertie ad I spent a few days in the Randstad. We had a nice hotel in Delft, visited Delft, Den Haag (The Hague), Scheveningen and Rotterdam....