Cycling through the Amsterdam rain is no fun.
Amsterdam rain
Nearly Hembrug
If you’re cycling from Zaandam to Amsterdam (which takes about 45 minutes and includes a ferry) you’ll go through a small underpass just before you reach the Hembrug ferry point. As you emerge from the underpass, these sweeping diagonal lines leap out at you. This is what you see here. This is actually the 4th attempt at this picture, each time whittling it down more and more. Eventually drawn in Kyle brushes.
Edmundo at it again
This is Edmundo at it again. This time in the Starbucks at Amsterdam Central Station. If you’re drawing someone who’s moving, you just need to find the position they keep returning to. Then concentrate on that.
This is drawn in pencil, graphite, gel pen, biro, and grey colour pencil.
(Click for a closer look).
Kalverpolder
Quick brown ink (plus grey pencil) sketch of the Kalverpolder, near the Zaanse Schans.
Kalver polder
Charcoal, pencil and ink sketch of the Kalverpolder, near Zaanse Schaans today.
IJmuiden sketches
Two ink and pencil sketches from Saturday’s session at IJmuiden, Amsterdam, with Anne Rose at the Haarlem Urban Sketchers.
Jisp
Drawing of Jisp, which is between Wormer and Wormerveer (not far from Amsterdam). Drawn in red and purple ink, with colour pencil and gel pen.
Life drawing
Pencil, pen and coloured pencil sketch from Sunday’s life drawing at Cinetol.
On the way to Haarlem
This is drawn from the roundabout at Zaandammerweg, in Assendelft, which is on the way to Haarlem, if you’re cycling from Wormerveer, which I was that day.
Made mostly in that fantastic Cobalt Blue fountain pen ink by Graf von Faber-Castell, with some lines and smudges added in purple pencil. The ink is supposed to be a dark rich cobalt blue, but when you dilute it right down, or dab it off when it’s still wet on the page, it seems to go much more purple, even pink. It’s the loveliest ink I’ve ever handled.
Westerpark yesterday
Ink painting of Westerpark in Amsterdam, yesterday. Painted in Cobalt Blue fountain pen ink by Graf von Faber-Castell—my favourite ink ever. Available as a print here.