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 […]
Sun & Sea
I didn’t know what to expect. A theater outside London center with a performance about Sun & Sea. So what is it really? In the first place it is very hot and very crowded. The visitors are on a balcony looking down at a orchestrated beach scene. There are children playing, a dog is running […]
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 […]
Provence and Lavender
In the past years we made several trips to Provence and the sketches, aquarelles and paintings start to merge into one big holiday. Initially I tried to distinguish one visit from an other but I actually like to combine them into my memory. Now it is one feast of colour, taste and smell and of […]
A weekend in Belgium
Our friends have a small and very nice second home in Belgium (Ardennen). It is a different country but just about 3 h away from us. Being there gave me time and inspiration to sit down in the grass and make a sketch of an old shed in their garden. After a while my dog […]
Early work ;-)
It must have been me who made this sketch when I was a teenager. I remember it vaguely and the signature is certainly mine. The reason why I have found it , is because my mother saved a lot of my sketches of my childhood. Mothers do these kind of things. I have no idea […]