pronounced "Kōsha”
I’m an artist and creative entrepreneur living in the Netherlands. I love drawing and I do it every day. On this website, I hope to inspire you to develop a drawing practice too, because it can make you feel good.
Photo by Rick Keus
I am back at it with my Urban Sketching vibes from last week! I felt like my artwork needed a little extra flair, so I grabbed my colored pencils, which I love using on top of dried watercolor washes.
Much fun with markmaking and textures, to deepen the color and give more life to the drawing.
I'll also talk about letting go of "accuracy" , which means more room for "you" in your art.
People are all around us, so when you include them in your drawings, you are adding life to your sketchbook, and you are telling a stronger story, as the viewer can relate even more to what they see. You might hesitate to add the people that you see when drawing a scene in your sketchbook–they move so fast! When you try to add passers by in your drawing, they are already gone before you hardly even started. I will help you tackle that problem and overcome the ‘fear’ of drawing people.
Welcome to Draw Tip Tuesday!
In today's video, I am drawing a medieval city wall gate in Amersfoort.
You'll see me take decisions, add shadows, contrast, and a splash of color.
Dive into today's Sketchbook Tour!
I'll flip through the pages filled during my workshop trips to Paris, France, and Malta, with a glimpse of home in the Netherlands.
You'll feel the buzz of a busy workshop season as you'll see demo drawings that give you an idea of my teaching experiences.
When it comes to the creative process, there is no right or wrong. You can’t know on beforehand if the decisions you make will be the right ones. You’ll feel insecure at times, but excitement as well. You need to trust your intuition, be courageous but most of all playful.
Join me as I flip through my sketchbook filled with stories from my recent travels as well as back home. From the Swiss Alps to the vibrant streets of Lisbon, each drawing has a unique story and memory. Today I'll share the inspiration behind the drawings, things I learned, and approaches I took.
This week's Draw Tip Tuesday video looks a bit different than usual and I think you'll like it.
Today I am meeting my friend Sabine Wisman, who is a creative creature and very inspiring. She'll give us a valuable Draw Tip!
In today’s video, I've got something really special to share with you. I'll take you on a little journey through my trusty sketchbook. Looking at the pages brings me right back to an awesome week of drawing, collage, creativity and urban sketching in Italy.
In today's video on YouTube, I am sharing my experience with using a smaller sketchbook, even though I'm more of a big sketchbook fan. At first, it felt a bit weird, but then I started to enjoy the challenges it threw my way. It's a switch from my habit of drawing in a big sketchbook - which I started doing to learn to be bolder in my art.
And you know what? I've grown to like the little sketchbook's practical perks.
Today, I'm excited to demonstrate the entire process of drawing people in a café and capturing the ambiance.
No matter what skill level, getting better at drawing takes time. And practice. And exploration. And courage. And curiosity.
And did I mention time?
In today's video, watch the process of sketching my living room. I'll talk about challenges we all encounter when sketching interior spaces.
For today's drawing, we'll be using the website window-swap.com. On this website, people from all over the world are submitting videos, recorded from their windows. I found a great window to draw the view from, looking out over rooftops in Edinburgh.
Do you ever find yourself overwhelmed, as if time is slipping through your fingers? With many of tasks and perhaps more than one priority, you're rushing from one thing to the next, with the result that you don't spend even a moment with your sketchbook.
Prioritizing drawing is important. You need your drawing time, to stay sane!
In today's video from the archive, I'll show you how to pick a subject and draw it from three different angles. You might think: "the same subject over and over again? Boring."
Not if you change your angle drastically. Everything changes and it's actually quite exciting.
In today's video, I'm showing you the many ways of capturing greens in your sketchbook. How do you capture greens in your sketchbook? Maybe you don't even need to use the color green. What?!
Grab your opportunity to draw greens today and cross of the first prompt for Drawing Bingo!
Today, I want to take you on location and show you how and where you can get started when drawing a scene on location. Also known as Urban Sketching.
In today's video, I'll flip through my new sketchbook, filled with urban sketches, workshop demos, personal moments, and art tool experiments. My sketchbook is my happy place, and I hope this tour inspires you to draw daily, just like I do. When you draw each day, you take the "pressure" off, knowing there's always the next page, the next day. Learning to be less precious about your pages is important. We often impose a rule on ourselves that every drawing must be exceptional - even perfect! Yet, we draw because we just love the process, don't we?
Featured Sketchbook: Hahnemühle Nostalgie Sketchbook, Size A4 (21cm x 29.7cm or 8.3'' x 11.7'').
There is always something to draw. Especially the mundane things - they are part of your life. You don't need some grand concept or subject to enjoy filling a sketchbook page. Everything is interesting as soon as you start drawing it. And you're drawing life, how cool is that?
