Life drawing

Decided to join the students for a while in todays' life drawing session.

Moleskine gouache sketch

Even an ugly city like Rotterdam can be fun to paint....

sketch

I often grab a book or a magazine and make sketches of the pictures in it. It is fun to do, and a great way to explore new sketching techniques and keep up my drawing skills...

Belgium

I spent the weekend in Belgium, Ardennen. The weather was beautiful, and the environment beautiful. These are a few gouache/watercolor sketches.

Biking

This afternoon I grabbed my down-hill bike (not made for long flat trips...) to re-discover an area with lots of good painting spots. I hardly have any biking experience so when I reached 'mookhoek' and realised I still had 20 km to go to get home again...on a sharp saddle...

Feeling really mangled right now, after 42 kilometers. But I did see some nice places.

Plein air 24-05

Two hours in the field, great weather.

Plein air 20-05-2009

Gouache fun...

Digital sketch

Gouache study

I lost my moleskine sketchbook some time ago. After weeks of searching and hoping to find it, I decided to forget about it and buy myself a new one.... Here's my first gouache sketch in it...

Plein air 17-05

I decided to paint the petanque court near my house. This is a spot that has history for Oud-Beijerland, although local politics will not let that stop them from building a new parking area there. Despite of the 90 year old healthy trees....
...So now they're captured in oils for eternity.