MUTS

Illustrations & Sketches

A new start requires a new website

After years of making various illustrations for clients and newspapers, I am taking a new path with my artwork. It's not that I'm leaving the period I refer to above and make no longer illustrations for the various media, no, certainly not. However, I get a lot of pleasure from my sketch work and in this way I want to give my new material a more prominent place.

To add even more variety in making drawings and paintings, it is good to make sketches in different places, with people, animals and objects. For example, I also represent the Urban Sketchers group. These sketchers regularly go out to immediately make a sketch of what they observe at that moment and want to register precisely that. Observing the place where you are, a situation you see at that moment and taking in everything that is nearby makes it the more beautiful to depict just that. Whether someone is at the checkout in a supermarket, a cloudy sky glides over your head, a building is in an area where the sun is setting or a season shows its properties, for example the autumn colors or a winter landscape. This website was rebuilt from scratch in September 2021. Not all pages are filled with content yet, but I will work on creating new pages and filling the existing ones with new work!

I hope you will enjoy my artwork.

My recent artwork

may 24, 2022

Dogs
our dachshund playing with a stick
Our dachshund playing with a stick

technique: pencil

may 7, 2022

Dogs
our dachshund as a puppy, years ago
Our dachshund as a puppy, years ago

technique: pencil

may 6, 2022

Dogs
our dachshund as a puppy, years ago
Our dachshund as a puppy, years ago

technique: pencil

february 7, 2022

Darkest Hour (inspired by an Iron Maiden song)
Musings of Winston Churchill and the black dog (symbolic of his depressions)
Musings of Winston Churchill

technique: watercolor / gouache

january 30, 2022

Battle of Passchendaele, 1917
Passchendaele, Belgium
Battle of Passchendaele, 1917

technique: watercolor / gouache

january 28, 2022

Battle of Passchendaele, 1917
Passchendaele, Belgium
Battle of Passchendaele, 1917

technique: watercolor / gouache

january 8, 2022

Winter scene
Fantasy
Fantasy winter scene

technique: pencil

december 27, 2021

Winter scene
Fantasy
Fantasy winter scene

technique: pencil / Photoshop

december 8, 2021

Dogs
as seen on a street in Die, France
Dogs as seen on a street in Die, France

technique: pencil / watercolor

december 8, 2021

Winter scene
Fantasy
Fantasy winter scene

technique: pencil

december 3, 2021

Winter scene
Fantasy
Fantasy winter scene

technique: pencil

november 22, 2021

Malinois
paws and poses
Malinois

technique: pencil on coloured paper

november 14, 2021

Dachshund
running in full speed
Dachshund

technique: pencil on coloured paper

november 13, 2021

Dachshund
in a fire pit
Dachshund in a fire pit

technique: watercolor / pencil

november 7, 2021

Mornas Fortress
Vaucluse
Mornas Fortress

The fortress of Mornas stands on a rocky outcrop on the left bank of the Rhône, overlooking the village of Mornas, established at its foot, and the surrounding area. You can walk to the fortress from the village below, but it's a hellish climb.

technique: watercolor / gouache

october 30, 2021

Tour de Tivoli in Valréas
Vaucluse
Tour de Tivoli in Valréas

The Tour de Tivoli, is a fortified tower, in Valréas, in the department of Vaucluse.

technique: pencil

october 29, 2021

Eglise Saint-Denis in Richerenches
Vaucluse
Château de Murol

A short walk in the truffle village Richerenches leads past historic buildings and also this church.

technique: pencil

october 28, 2021

Locals in Port-en-Bessin-Huppain
Calvados
Locals in Port-en-Bessin-Huppain

Street scene in Port-en-Bessin-Huppain with two elderly people who, it seems, are telling each other the latest news from the village.

technique: pencil

october 27, 2021

Château de Murol
Puy-de-Dôme
Château de Murol

Driving in the car I saw this beautiful chateau on top of a mountain. It overlooks the volcanic area around Murol.

technique: pencil

october 3, 2021

Lavender field
Drôme
Lavender field

Lavender field somewhere near Montségur-s-Lauzon.

technique: pencil

october 5, 2021

Olive tree
Drôme
Olive tree

This olive tree caught my eye, especially because of the two ducks under the tree.

technique: pencil

october 5, 2021

Street in La Garde-Adhémar
Drôme
Street in La Garde-Adhémar

This property in rue Marquise de la Baume, one of the many picturesque streets in La Garde-Adhémar, invited a sketch despite the terrace being closed.

technique: pencil