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[Insider 51] Week 2 from Europe

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[Insider 51] Week 2 from Europe

delft and back again.

Nishant Jain
Aug 28, 2022
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Dear Insider,

Today’s post is a summary of my week in SneakyArt. I went to many places. I met people old and new. I saw many wonderful things.

The SneakyArt Post is a publication about secretly drawn art, and my journey of self-education as an artist. From vacation in Europe, I am sharing daily observations with SneakyArt Insiders, the wonderful readers who support my independent work.

This has been a week of meeting many sketchers. It began with a small meetup at the Rijksmuseum Fountains. At the location, we found that easels had been set up around the water for tourists and visitors to use.

I spotted a young prodigy, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

After an hour at the gardens and the fountains by the sculptures of Barbara Hepworth, we moved closer to the van Gogh museum. Circling about, I looked for good angles, a sense of perspective, and human activity. SneakyArt can be found even outside art museums!

Outside the van Gogh museum.

The next day, sketching at Westerpark with Koosje Koene, I was reminded of the private bubbles we make for ourselves in public spaces. A patio table then - just a patio table and just some chairs - can then constitute a universe of its own.

Conversation, the clinking of glasses, the tapping of feet, all signs of life … there, then gone.

At the Pacific Amsterdam, in Westerpark.

Later in the week I visited Delft and met with old friends after many years. It was a long day of many drawings. Here’s how the evening began at the Browhuis, a brewery next to the Oude Kerk.

Friends.

The next morning I did a sketch meet-up with urban sketchers in the beautiful Delft centrum.

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