The sky is the limit ?

Through the  variation of the Dutch weather we are by times blessed with  fantastic sky views!
Especially in autumn and winter the clouds and sky can be awesome.
It is always fun to give it a go on drawing that !
Here some of my skies.................... well not my skies.
My drawings of  some skies that is.

The first drawing was on a cloudy day with some sun.
I did not use lines , just watercolor.

     Winsor/Newton artist watercolor on A5 pink pig Ameleie 270 gms watercolor paper
                                                      © Gertjan Velthuizen 


For the next drawing , a few days after the last one, I used some pencil lines.
There was a kind of haze  over the fields and hardly any clouds in the sky, very difficult to grab that in a drawing, especially with temperatures  a few degrees above freezing.

     Winsor/Newton artist watercolor on A5 pink pig Ameleie 270 gms watercolor paper                                                                           © Gertjan Velthuizen

On a traintrip on dec the 16 th 2017 I drew some skies from the view out of the trainwindow in 4 little drawings.
Starting at the right hand top of the page ( I am a lefty) It was quite dark but on my next drawing there is some light appearing..  At the last drawing ( left -under) ther is a burst of sunlight, reflected back  by the clouds. Hard to get , but fun to do !

            Winsor Newton artist watercolor on A6 Pink Pig  150 grms cartridge paper                                                                                                    © Gertjan Velthuizen

An Amsterdam affair...

On the eleventh of the eleventh month I joined  a very nice sketch afternoon in Amsterdam.
Well organised by Koosje Koene of the USK Amsterdam !
The sketchers met at cafe "de Jaren ".
During the trip to Amsterdam  I tried to fill up a page in my A6 Pink Pig sketchbook:

                                                    © Gertjan Velthuizen

Being a lefty I started at the bottem right with a small sketch of the kiosk at Rotterdam CS were i got my first coffee of the day.
Then I made up the landscap on the bottem left .
I drew that partly by memory from what I saw  out of the train-window.
During the   20 minute walk from the station to the meeting place I saw a canal-bridge  and I could not resist drawing it...............
The last corner of the paper was filled at the cafe.
Already a group of sketchers was at the cafe and among them there was a very nice group of sketchers from England ! It was great meeting them!

But, we got out to draw some Amsterdam !!
There is so much to see, dunno were to start😃

                                       © Gertjan Velthuizen

The next sketch I drew in two steps. I started outside, but then there was some serious rain  but I found a dry place at the  covered terras of  cafe "Amstelhoek ". I  had a nice beer ( Brand Porter, fantastic) and a view over the river, so I finished my drawing inside....

                                                    © Gertjan Velthuizen

I made a small drawing of some duck-like birds in the Amsterdam "grachten" and filled the page back at   cafe  "de Jaren" were we gathered at the end of the afternoon  to show our sketches to each other, which I think is just as fun as drawing !

© Gertjan Velthuizen

                                                                     © Gertjan Velthuizen
                                                                             
                                                                         

Time flies......

"Time flies", he said, and threw his watch through the room.
But it really does.
Time .
Flying.
November already begun  and nothing blogged in october......
Well ,here are some highlights of  october.

Of course autumn  has  set in:

                                                                            © Gertjan Velthuizen

Then  a sketchcrawl in Gouda.
I made some drawings of the  St Jan cathedral.

  



















                                             © Gertjan Velthuizen

  © Gertjan Velthuizen

There was a kind of medieval festival  , with lots of people dressed in appropiate clothing.
I drew some of their heads !

  © Gertjan Velthuizen

However fun a traintrip can be, when there is a  problem , there can be a lot of waiting time...
So why not use it to  draw!
Here is a drawing  I made at Tilburg station , during more than one hour delay:

  © Gertjan Velthuizen

At my daily job I picked up drawing technical items during lunchtime again, I could fill one page this month:

                                                            © Gertjan Velthuizen

At the end of the month I drew with a group of Rotterdam Urban Sketchers in the museum of natural history. I was a bit afraid i would not like to draw stuffed animals, nevertheless it was great fun !
Drawing  those dead animals somehow makes  them coming alive a bit.....

  © Gertjan Velthuizen

  © Gertjan Velthuizen