Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Food and Travel
Next week, my online class Draw It Like Its Hot is starting. And as you can see, Im already warming up for it!
Draw It Like its Hot runs for four weeks but lasts much longer. Its only $69 for the 4 weeks, in which I give you tips and tricks and teach you all about illustrating food. Its fun, and youll end up creating your very own illustrated recipe.

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| Last week, I made a quick visit to Stockholm. Such a nice city - I want to visit again and spend more time! Of course, traveling means a lot of adventure, also on your plate! (had some wonderful pickled herring there too, which I didnt draw - I think I wouldve drooled all over my sketchbook!) |
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| The Turkish coffee, just the coffee cup in itself, makes me want to go to Istanbul. Its been on my list for a long time! |
Wanna join? Check out my website: www.koosjekoene.nl.

Sunday, April 12, 2015
Travel Journal pages
Yesterday, I posted that road trip drawing I did in Switzerland. Here is a bunch of other drawings I did during my stay in Switzerland in October:





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| Sketching Family |


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| Out for lunch in St. Gallen on a rainy day. The women who owned the place saw what I was doing, and she kept grabbed my Sketchbook (while I was drawing!), bringing it to the back of the restaurant to show her employees. It was very funny and it was lovely to see how impressed she was with this mediocre sketch. |



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| The longer I looked at this church, the stranger I found its architecture, with unexpected corners everywhere. |
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| My husbands feet and a pot of tea back home. |
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Madrid travel journal pages
Life is sweet. Yesterday, I got back from a wonderful city trip to Madrid, Spain.
Im a lucky girl. My husband had to travel there for his work and we decided I could travel with him and to add the weekend.

So on Thursday morning, we arrived at Barajas, the airport. My husband took a cab to the office, and my little adventure started right there. I love travelling, and when youre on your own, the experience somehow is even deeper. Taking the subway into town was an adventure and my senses opened up completely. It felt like I saw, heard and smelt things sharply, and even the warm air from the subway tunnels felt like it touched the hairs on my arms in a very special way.
I saw well short dressed and high heeled women, smelled freshly fried churros, noticed elderly men wearing pastel colours, their checkered shirts matching the colour of their pink, baby blue or lime green pants. I was still underground and could already see: I am in the south of Europe!
The first thing I did when I arrived in the city and ascended from the subway into the sunny streets of Madrid, was find myself a Cafeteria to drink my very first, very spanish cortado: a single espresso with a little bit of milk.

Then I checked into our wonderful apartment we found through www.airbnb.com, I worked for a few hours (the entrepreneur life does go on, you know, also when youre travelling!) and then headed outside into the sunny city life. Had tapas for lunch and drew my view from the cervezeria.

Next day I visited the museum Reina Sofia and I was also told to go see the Atocha train station which is on the other side of the roundabout there. So I did and also drew it.

Early in the evening, I made this drawing while having tapas with my husband. Including greasy tapas stains:

And we visited the wonderful mercado de San Miguel at night, for a glass of Verdejo and... yup, more tapas!

I am still doing my daily self portraits, as you can see. Theres just a few pages to go in my current sketchbook, and I will sure keep the habit of doing self portraits, but Ill be glad to not be committed to do one each day anymore when I start a new sketchbook.
On the 14th, we woke up to another gorgeous day and before heading out, I drew the view from our window.
Next day, just before leaving home, we visited El Rastro, the largest flea market in the world, held every week. Super festive. We walked and walked and walked, so I didnt sketch any of it. The only drawing I made was the one in the right corner, during lunch.


Saturday, February 21, 2015
Food and Travel
Next week, my online class Draw It Like Its Hot is starting. And as you can see, Im already warming up for it!
Draw It Like its Hot runs for four weeks but lasts much longer. Its only $69 for the 4 weeks, in which I give you tips and tricks and teach you all about illustrating food. Its fun, and youll end up creating your very own illustrated recipe.

Read more »
![]() |
| Last week, I made a quick visit to Stockholm. Such a nice city - I want to visit again and spend more time! Of course, traveling means a lot of adventure, also on your plate! (had some wonderful pickled herring there too, which I didnt draw - I think I wouldve drooled all over my sketchbook!) |
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| The Turkish coffee, just the coffee cup in itself, makes me want to go to Istanbul. Its been on my list for a long time! |
Wanna join? Check out my website: www.koosjekoene.nl.

Travel Journal 5
Wheels.
Is it hard to draw bikes or cars? Well, why would it be harder than drawing anything else? When I draw, I look at the shapes and the colours and try not to think about what I am actually drawing. For instance: I draw a rounded shape. Not a wheel.
The only problem you could have drawing one of these rides, is that they move. Or you are taking your time to draw a parked vehicle, and then suddenly the driver decides to take off with it!
The Tuk-Tuk driver decided to do so, but luckily a new one parked at the same spot, so I combined the two, to finish the drawing on the left page.

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