London Metro
What to do when in the London Metro travelling from one side of the city to the other? It turns out people do a lot. People read, chat, change shoes, listen to music, do the makeup, study the billboards etc. Most of the time I stared at people. The diversity is such that boredom is […]
Frozen leaves
So, it was cold during the night of 13 December in the Netherlands. And there is some ice on the canals. So there are immediately huge expectations about ice skating. But the ice is very thin. Promising but thin and so we will have to wait for a few more nights. In the meantime there […]
Wadden Sea National Park
Wadden Sea National Park is the northern part of the Netherlands. It is partly sea with impressive tides and partly a collection of islands.https://www.waddensea-worldheritage.org For me, it is the most beautiful part of the Netherlands. I have been there many times but usually during winter and autumn. The problem is (if there is a problem […]
Venice Biennale 2022
During the ’22 Venice Biennale (the Milk of Dreams) https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2022I stayed in a wonderful hotel. Nothing really special except that on the 4th floor there was a balcony. In addition there were 3 days of sunlight in the morning at the end of November. And, oh yes, there was a terrible rainy day too but […]
Autumn
Autumn seems to inspire me a lot since I have many sketches made during this season. The sketches are made over several years and here are just a few in this post. This year seems as if autumn simply refuses to come or it comes in a slow motion. The reason for that is that […]
Belgrade
A few years ago I went to Belgrade (Serbia) with family just to be there, visit some museums and see some art that my mother loved so much. While I was waiting for her to arrive, I made this small sketch of people inside the Schiphol airport. Now in 2022 that would probably be outside […]
Marker Wadden (again)
Marker Wadden and the nature there gave such an inspiration I had to make more sketches. And sketching sand is something I haven’t done before so that was challenging as can be seen 🙂 .In fact I made an other one of some grass on a dune. The paper I use is really nice. It is […]
Tales from the Caribbean
Sometimes the bookshop at the museum is more inspiring than the exhibition. The exhibition, I am talking about was well received, so it is probably my lack of understanding (or interest) of the subject than the quality of the curated work. But then, there is always the shop. And in such a shop I found […]
Marker Wadden
Markermeer (Marker Lake) is not a lake but a part of Ijsselmeer (Ijssel Lake). IJsselmeer however is not a lake but reclaimed piece of the Zuiderzee (Zuider Sea). Zuiderzee was once a sea but that was before it was damned in 1932. Now it is a freshwater lake. Marker Wadden https://www.natuurmonumenten.nl/projecten/marker-wadden/english-version is not comparable to […]
Nest (Movie 2022)
I made this sketch after watching a short film ‘Nest’ by Hlynur Palmason. It tells a story of building and enjoying a tree house by two boys and their sister (at least that is what it seems). The picture is made on 35mm colour film. It gives us an impression of a short family film. […]