Showing posts with label sketches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sketches. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Journal Urban sketches 2
Last week I shared a few of my urban sketches. Heres a few more:
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| This is the square around the corner. There was a fun festival going on that week, so a few caravans were parked in there (at night they were used for selling drinks and snacks). With the planted palm trees on the square, and the morning sun, I almost felt like I wasnt in Amsterdam when I sat down to draw this morning sketch, but somewhere on a southern vacation! |
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| I got a bit frustrated by not being able to draw the palm trees the right way in the first drawing, so I focused on the building on the other side of the street and drew this. |
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| This was a very relaxing sketch, done in the Jordaan in Amsterdam |
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Amsterdam Sketches
Last Saturday, I met up with my drawing buddy Yvonne. We brought the husbands along - mine played the banjo, hers played with the kids. It was a very warm and humid day, but we sat in the shadows of the trees alongside of a water playground.
It felt like a holiday. In the jungle. An Urban Jungle, that is.
It felt like a holiday. In the jungle. An Urban Jungle, that is.
On Saturday 12 July, The World Wide Sketch Crawl took place on... um, yes, as the title implies, many places around the world. In Amsterdam, we gathered with a wonderful group of about 30 people to have a 9 to 6 sketching day.
To kick the morning off I sketched Amsterdams largest Chinese Restaurant, Sea Palace. It is a boat with three floors. They have great dim sum by the way. Not that I had any that morning.
Then we fuelled up with coffee and a bite to eat at a cafe with a great peaceful terrace. On the right there, you can see the concentrated way we all worked in, by just looking at the slightly hunched shoulders of Joke, who is a student in Sketchbook Skool and came over for a few hours of sketching with her husband and their 2-year-old daughter.
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| Joke and I looking at each others sketchbook pages |
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| Great group of Amsterdam sketchers! |
Sketchbook Skool students Frans and Alexa (she came all the way from Cologne, Germany to join us!) are comparing Skool homework
After taking a break to awe at each others sketchbook pages and make a group photo we walked to the park, to join a hippie-like small festival, where everyone was invited to bring their instruments to jam, and their art supplies to make some art. So thats what we did, we made some more art. After a bite to eat, sitting in the grass and chatting to the other sketchcrawlers, I made this last sketch before heading home.
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Journal Pages Urban Sketches
Just recently, I discovered Im one of those urban sketchers.
I really like to sit down somewhere for a while, pull out my sketchbook and draw whats around me. It makes me alert to see textures, shapes, colours and details, but it also allows me to hear sounds more intensely, feel the temperature and breeze, and even smell more than I usually do.
It seems like, when drawing my surroundings, all my senses open up a bit more.
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| The view from my window is always the same, but changes constantly |
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| Enjoying a saturday morning outside a neighbourhood coffee place. I drew this over two cappuccino. |
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| This is at Leidseplein, on the left is the American Hotel. I didnt have much time and I wasnt quite happy with the proportions and messed up the details, so I left it at that. Still, when I look at it now, I do sense the late afternoon-feel again, I did capture a certain memory here for myself. |
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