Hi there, I’m Koosje!

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

Travel Sketchbook Tour (1 of 2)

Travel Sketchbook Tour (1 of 2)

Welcome to Draw Tip Tuesday!

Today, I am flipping through the pages of one of the sketchbooks that I took on vacation with me in December. It contains lots of memories, and while filling the pages, I discovered a thing or two, which I'd love to share with you.

A small sketchbook like this is very handy when you're on location, when you're on the move, when you want to limit all the tools that you have, you limit your materials, you don't want to carry around a lot of materials. But, as I settled down on vacation, I found that the pages were too small for the bigger drawings I wanted to make. Luckily, I brought another sketchbook, which I will show you next week.

I will show you the drawings and tell you about them.

Would you like to take trip and capture the memories and liveliness of the place?

I'll be teaching in the US in April: The Lively Sketchbook, at Madeline Island School of the arts in Santa Fe. I won't be teaching in the US after this workshop any time soon, and there are just a few tickets left, so grab your chance and enroll here.

Sketchbook shown in this video:
Hahnemühle Nostalgie sketchbook, size A6
(also briefly shown: Etchr Sketchbook,100%cotton paper, size B5) ....

Get Inspired by Nature

Get Inspired by Nature

Be Brave!

Be Brave!