Sketch from Vondelpark. Cold and blowy in ink, crayon, coloured pencil and gel pen.
Vondelpark
Sofie at Cinetol
Be open to things
Pretty much dreamt this one. Sometimes you just see them. Usually as you’re trying to wake up.
Kaya sleeping
This is Kaya, who Gail was looking after for a while. He’s quite old (for a dog) and mostly just sleeps—which is really great for drawing. I made quite a few of him.
Drawn in ink with a bamboo dip pen, a Rotring Artpen, and coloured pencil (purple).
Oosterpark vandaag
Oosterpark vandaag. Ink, pencil and crayon drawing of plant-life in Amsterdam’s Oosterpark today.
The learner
This is drawn (and painted) in ink, pencil and charcoal and depicts one of my students in Jakarta (where I pretended to be an English teacher for a few years in the early 90s).
It’s all about the lines, I’ve realised. No too much shading. When you first get into drawing, you think it’s all about the shading. But actually, if you get them right, lines work much quicker on the eye.
More Osdorp trees
Osdorp trees
Trees in Osdorperbinnenpolder Noord—drawn in cobalt blue ink and coloured pencil.
Dorset vs Amsterdam
Sketchbook page: The Purbeck hills of Dorset vs Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam
North sea ferry passengers
“I bet you can’t draw me” he said. Well kid, you owe me a sandwich. On the ferry from England to Holland with the last of my stuff in boxes. Drawn in blue fountain pen, and blue pencil.