Another businesstrip, to France this time. Drew this last Tuesday evening late in Tarbes, a house opposite the Cathedral. Used Lamy fountainpen and Pentel brushpen.
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2010Jun 277
tags: france | Tarbes -
2010Mar 3
tags: france | Tarbes
Last week in Tarbes (France), quick early morning sketch of my favourite restaurant, l’Epicerie.
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2010Feb 1
tags: foodmarket | france | Tarbes | watercolour
Foodmarket in a multi story carpark in Tarbes, France. Local farmers selling their home grown vegetables in the early morning (7 am). Quick sketch made with my Lamy fountainpen and some watercolour in a WC-moleskine.
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2010Jan 19
tags: france | Les dessous de Shaya | Tarbes
Les dessous de Shaya. Businesstrip to Tarbes (France) last friday; I got up an hour early to make some outside sketches. But it was still cold and dark and the only warm looking subject within a block from the hotel was this shopwindow.
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2009Nov 13
tags: france | Tarbes
Tarbes, South of France, last wednesday. The side entrance of the Cathedral. You can read history from the walls.
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2009Jun 18
tags: france | laundromat | Tarbes
A laundromat in Tarbes (France); it was near midnight and the cold blue light from the shop made a nice contrast with the orange natrium streetlights. I tried to capture that light in this drawing.
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2009Apr 23
tags: france | Tarbes
I found this airplane stuck between a parking lot and a military academy, in the center of Tarbes, France. Would it get a parking ticket, like the rest of us? http://www.renefijten.blogspot.com/
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2009Mar 5
tags: Tarbes
Restaurant l’Epicerie in Tarbes, France. I had to dine alone, nothing else to do than to sketch the restaurant. Fineliner and waterbrush. By the way: the food was excellent.
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2009Feb 17
tags: Fountainpen | Patisserie | Tarbes
The smell of fresh bread in the early morning. The flood light lit the facade of this patisserie. At 7am the Place Verdun in Tarbes was still very dark.
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2009Feb 7
tags: How to | Tarbes
Tarbes, South of France, foodmarket.
To show how I mostly do my on-site sketches: I mostly use the large watercolour moleskine. At first a few lines 0.5 H-pencil to define the scene. Then I make the drawing with permanent ink: I use an edding profipen 0.3. On the adjacent page of the moly I make a quick sketch with my fountainpen: colours, shades and notes like what products or from which side the sun falls. I do all this all on location.
Later at home (but always within a few days) I use the notes to add watercolour to the inkdrawing, not necessarily 100% correct. I use Talens, van Gogh quality. Sometimes I take a picture for reference as well, but I rarely use it.
I thought maybe it is interesting to see how I work.
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