Hortensia

The Britons sure love their hydrangea's (but I prefer the Dutch and French word, hortensia - it somehow sounds more poetic). So no hesitation what I had to draw during my travel in Bretagne.

Sitting on the dock of the bay

I am a bit slow in finishing my Morocco drawings! Here are two old guys sitting in the port of Essaouira, and the gulls.

Moroccan red mountains pattern

Another look at those Moroccan red mountains. I turned them into a pattern, based on the drawing I made while travelling. Now I only have to decide what to do with it. A fabric for a dress, maybe? Anyway, I put it on Woven Monkey if you'd like to have a piece of it yourself! 

Donkey Parking Lot

From my Morocco sketchbook: the donkey parking lot

Moroccan red mountains

We went to Morocco! In the bus from Agadir to Marrakech, I was struck by the green-dotted red mountains. This is, as always, an interpretation of the landscape, because in reality there were also snow-capped mountains behind these red hills.

Owlspotting

Bijschrift toevoegen

The hats, the pink binoculars, the scene just begged to be drawn. The winter sun had drawn out a crowd in Ghent to the Bourgoyen, one of our few nature spots. A birdwatcher had spotted an owl in the trees and a lot of passers-by stopped to spot it too.

Dunes

Another North Sea sketch/drawing. It was a beautiful sight to see this horse walking through the dunes.

Boat

We spent the end of year holidays at the North Sea coast, which inspired a few landscape drawings in my special landscape sketchbook - more or less true to reality. This one is inspired by the view on the Ostend Casino, turning the casino into a big boat building (there is actually an old hotel somewhere at the Belgian coast that looks like a boat, a bit like this one).

North Sea Selfie

Between Christmas and New Year at the Belgian Coast.

Teenager

How has your teenager been doing lately?

I don't get wet

The 'Wet' topic of Illustration Friday encouraged me to draw the little girl I saw at the parking lot of our local supermarket a while ago.

Beaching #3

Sunbathing is for all ages. Especially if you have orange sunglasses.
(Sestri Levante, Italy)

Birdwatching

My birdwatchers got spoilt in the Auvergne.

Beaching #2

Sun & sea can make you so tired. (Cinque Terre, on the boat from Monterosso to Vernazza).

Beaching

I also drew a few people in Italy. Beaching nr.1

Italy

Here are a few impressions I took from Italy, Tuscany and Liguria. There's more that I will need to finish from my memory. The blue and ochre paint were used a lot.

Dancing in the kitchen

Dancing in the kitchen is definitely something we should do more often.

Summer

YES!

Share your pleasures

A hipster was sharing his pleasures on one of the first Spring days - Brussels, April

No Big Ben please

We had a very nice few April days in London. This little girl apparently didn't want to be on a picture with Big Ben.