Ik teken huizen.
Je nieuwe huis. Je oude huis. Waar jullie je eerste date hadden.
Ben je op zoek naar een origineel cadeau of een aandenken voor jezelf?
Dan ben je bij mij aan het juiste adres.
Workshop huistekenen
In september organiseer ik weer een aantal workshops. Ze zijn buiten, in Amsterdam, waarschijnlijk op het Westergasterrein. Daar staan mooie gebouwen om te tekenen.
€60,- inclusief materiaal.
DE TWEEWEKELIJKSE TREASURY SUBSTACK
Elke twee weken verstuur ik een e-mail
met de verhalen achter een paar van mijn tekeningen.
Meld je aan en krijg 10% korting op je eerste opdracht.
Recente tekeningen (Instagram)
My studio is located at the tiny round window on the far left, at Da Vinci Creative Spaces, Amsterdam
The drawing is a present for one of the other tenants with a studio in the tower (designed by Elling/Visser, while Ben Merkelbach did my part)
Thanks Bob for the commission!
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#bosenlommer #bolo #amsterdamwest #amsterdam #studio #broedplaats #houseportrait #huistekening #penandink #urbansketcher
A happy birthday to the owner of this house!
Nicolaas Maesstraat, Amsterdam
I drew a similar house a bit further down the street and if you swipe to the last image in this carrousel you see them next to each other. They share some details (same architect/builder) but are also very different.
Thanks Bramiene for the commission!
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#oudzuid #amsterdamzuid #amsterdam #penandink #huistekening #huisportret #houseportrait #urbansketcher
Treasure map #4
HIC THESAURUM INVENIES 004
Somewhere in The Netherlands you can find this (-> check 2nd image) pure #925 #silver Saint Andrew's Cross - and all you need is this little treasure map
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And since it’s my birthday, see it as my ‘trakteren’ 😉
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#treasure #treasurehunt #schatkaart #xmarksthespot #urbansketcher
Bruna in Ouddorp @brunaouddorp
The people who run it are retiring
Today I bought my last Parool @hetparool from them (yes, they sell an Amsterdam newspaper all the way down here!)
A part of their shopwindow is reserved for local artists (my summerhouse is here) and every year I sell a few drawings of beaches, beachclubs, campers and lighthouses
Thanks Peter & Angelina for having me all those years!
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#ouddorp #bruna #goereeoverflakkee #huisportret #urbansketchers #beachlife🌴
In juni geef ik een aantal workshops waarbij je leert kijken zoals ik.
Buiten in de zon, waarschijnlijk op het Westergasterrein.
Geen ervaring vereist.
€60,- incl materiaal.
Data:
-Vrijdag 5 juni, 1400u
-Woensdag 10 juni, 1400u
-Donderdag 18 juni, 1400u
-Zaterdag 27 juni, 1400u
Boek een plek via de shop op m'n website (link in bio) of DM, dan stuur ik je een link.
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#workshop #drawingworkshop #tekenworkshop #masterclass #urbansketching #huistekening
De Tuin van de Smid, Leiden
@detuinvandesmid
Drawn for a wedding (centre top)
When I cycled the #bakfiets and kids to #ouddorp in summer, this was one of our favourite stops
Thanks Irja & Chris for the commission!
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#weddinggift #tuinvandesmid #leiden #weddingvenues #birdseye #pendrawing #urbansketcher #buitentrouwen
De Pyramide van Miep en Math.
Miep en Math waren de beste vrienden van mijn ouders. Mijn jeugd is onlosmakelijk met ze verbonden. Ze gingen mee op kampeervakanties, waren op alle feestjes of organiseerden ze zelf. M’n moeder had een tijdlang samen met Miep een winkeltje onderin de drive-in woning waar ze woonden voordat ze deze pyramide zelf ontwierpen én bouwden, ergens in de jaren '80. Elke oud&nieuw stond de hele buurt hier binnen. Ik heb hier gelogeerd (ze hadden een ongestabiliseerd waterbed) en talloze dagen doorgebracht met stapels boeken en platen.
Vorig jaar overleed Math, afgelopen zaterdag namen we afscheid van Miep. Wat er met de pyramide gaat gebeuren weet ik niet, maar hij zal altijd staan voor twee mensen die ik mijn leven lang zag als mijn tweede ouders. Creatief, eigenzinnig (wonen in een pyramide is best onpraktisch) en altijd op zoek naar de vrolijkheid en schoonheid in de dingen.
Niets dan liefde.
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#pyramid #architectuur #architecture #archisketch #housesketch #nederlandsearchitectuur
Eerste Van Swindenstraat, Amsterdam
Around the corner from @dappermarktamsterdam and with a big @albertheijn below
Designed in 1996 by @tangram_arch
Thanks Odiel for the commission!
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#dapperbuurt #amsterdamoost #amsterdam #lindeman #huisportret #houseportrait #huistekening #urbansketchers #penart #pentekening #uniquegift
Ergens in Amsterdam verstopte ik een zilveren Andreaskruis. Met deze kaart kun je het zoeken. Wie het als eerste vindt, mag het houden!
Somewhere in Amsterdam I've been hiding a silver St Andrew's cross. With this map you can search for it. First it first and it's yours!
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#treasurehunt #treasure #treasuremap
Yesterday I launched my new treasure hunt HIC THESAURUM INVENIES by sending the subscribers to my Miracle of Amsterdam mailing list this 'map' to a small cross of pure silver, hidden somewhere in Amsterdam.
I told them I'd give them a 24 hour head start on the rest of the world aka Instagram.
After 2 hours the treasure was found.
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The next treasure hunt happens *Wednesday May 13* and will be announced here! Also taking place in Amsterdam.
So if you're good at this you might want to follow me, closely...
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#treasurehunt #silver925 #amsterdam #thetreasury
Prins Hendrikkade, Amsterdam
Back in the day when admiral De Ruyter lived a few doors down, this used to be seaside Amsterdam living. The street was called 'Buitenkant': the outer side
Thanks Tycho for the commission!
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#prinshendrikkade #oosterdok #lastage #amsterdamcentrum #amsterdam #quayside #huistekening #houseportrait #housesketch #urbansketcher #inkart #penart
Hunebed D27 in Borger, Drenthe
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These dolmen are spread across the landscape in the north-east of The Netherlands (and adjacent parts of Germany and Denmark) and are believed to be ossuaries
The Netherlands doesn't have any stone or rocks. It's just sand and bogs. These stones arrived here during the ice age, carried along by the glaciers
And as people do, you stack 'm!
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This is the biggest one in The Netherlands - swipe for 'son for scale'
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#hunebed #borger #drenthe #dolmen #burialsite #ossuary #monument #history #urbansketcher
Herengracht, Amsterdam
This canal house is in fact just 100 years old. In 1927 it was home to a film rental company and the films exploded like in Inglourious Bastards, destroying it to the ground. It was rebuilt, one floor lower than before and without a staircase
Google it: Herengracht 285, Amsterdam-monumentenstad
Thanks Leonie for the commission!
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#herengracht #grachtengordel #amsterdamcentrum #amsterdam #huistekening #canalhouse #canalhouses #grachtenpand #urbansketcher
Another ground floor, on Sarphatipark
Through the windows you can see the windows to the garden in the back
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In front are three #stolpersteine for Nathan Plotske, Johanna Plotske-Klijnkramer and Rosa Elisabeth Plotske, who lived here before they were deported and murdered in Auschwitz
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Thanks Noor for the commission!
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#sarphatipark #depijp #amsterdamzuid #amsterdam #huistekening #houseportrait #urbansketchers
Korsjespoortsteeg, Amsterdam
This is the @multatuli.huis , the birthplace (upstairs) of Eduard Douwes Dekker, better known as Multatuli, the writer of the famous 1860 novel Max Havelaar, about the atrocities of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia
Thanks Jos for the commission!
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#multatuli #maxhavelaar #amsterdamcentrum #grachtengordel #amsterdam #museums #huistekening #houseportrait #amsterdamhouses #urbansketcher
View on NDSM from the ferry
They used to build big ships here (and still on a smaller scale @damenshipyards on the left)
3 years ago I drew a similar view (from Distelweg) but the skyline has changed a bit, so it was time for a new one
The ferry proved to offer the best view
100x30cm, original still available, prints available soon
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#ndsm #amsterdamnoord #amsterdam #ferry #amsterdamskyline #skyline #archisketch #wharf #redevelopment #urbansketcher
Corner of Herengracht & Raadhuisstraat
Built in 1896 by the famous Van Gendt architect family (involved in Centraal Station, Stadsschouwburg, Concertgebouw etc) in a style called 'eclecticism', which seems just a hotchpotch of a couple of trends of the day... quite a challenge to draw
For @viccle @altijdzes on the first floor
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And the second or third time I drew @dehypotheker - I feel a monumental series of ALL shops coming! 😉
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#herengracht #grachtengordel #amsterdamcentrum #amsterdam #grachtenpand #canalhouse #raadhuisstraat #amsterdamcanals #dehypotheker #archisketch #architecture #eclecticism #neorenaissance #artnouveau #chaletstyle #urbansketcher
Oude Waal, Amsterdam
🤓: 'Waal' is an old word for the deep waters that form when a dyke breaks, which happened here in 1377, creating the need to build/re-enforce the famous Zeedijk
Now it's one of the most beautiful canals in the city
Swipe to see the touch of red I used for the @altijdzes logo
Thanks! @vicccle
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#nieuwmarkt #zeedijk #lastage #amsterdamcentrum #amsterdam #grachtengordel #grachtenpand #canalhouse #amsterdamcanals #huistekening #houseportrait #urbansketchers
Koelhuis, Amsterdam
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Originally the large refrigerator of the monumental Centrale Markthal next door and not demolished because of this gigantic mural by Keith Haring @keithharingfoundation - and of course the efforts by street artist Mick La Rock @micklarock01 to preserve it for the city
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I replicated the mural with acrylic marker on top of the drawing
Thanks Lev @stackingthedecks for the commission!
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#koelhuis #centralemarkthallen #amsterdamwest #bosenlommer #westerpark #amsterdam #keithharing #streetart #redevelopment #architecture #archisketch #urbansketcher
Kruisstraat, Ens
Next to the former island of Schokland (UN heritage site) in the Noordoostpolder lies the planned village of Ens - worth a google
Parked in front: a classic Fiat Panda 🙌
Thanks Marijke for the commission!
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#ens #noordoostpolder #schokland #fiatpanda #carsketch #archisketch #architecture #polder #wederopbouw #urbanplanning #huistekening #huisportret #houseportrait #urbansketcher
Arnoldus Rotterdamstraat, Utrecht
I lived in Utrecht (more than 30 years ago) and I overlooked Zuilen from the 15th floor of my student flat, but I had never set foot there. Until now.
Thanks Monica for the commission!
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#zuilen #utrecht #utrechtart #huisportret #houseportrait #huistekening #architecture #archisketch #rijtjeshuis #urbansketcher
Ook zo'n tekening van je huis?
Ik teken je oude huis, je nieuwe huis, alle huizen waar je ooit woonde of je huis op wielen.
Origineel en uniek.
Als aandenken voor jezelf of cadeau voor een ander.
Vanaf €395,-
Stuur een DM of check bramderooij.com via de link in bio
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#huisportret #houseportrait #huistekening #pentekening
Rover P6 2000
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3 years ago my brother and me took my dad on a roadtrip to the Isle of Skye
We drove from Inverness to and around Skye in this great car, rented at @highland_classic_car_hire
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#roverp6 #isleofskye #scottishhighlands #carrental #classiccar #oldtimer #oldtimercars #pendrawing #carsketch #urbansketcher
Rietgors, IJsselstein
Random association: near the town I grew up (Venray) was a village called Ysselsteyn, named after this city. There are also hamlets called California and South Carolina; has to do with colonising the peat bogs..
Thanks Sander for the commission!
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#ijsselstein #utrecht #huisportret #huistekening #urbansketcher #rietendak
Prinsengracht, Amsterdam
A beautiful, black canal house, close to Noordermarkt. Back in the day they sometimes applied a black tar-like oil to waterproof the facade
Thanks Sarah Jane for the commission!
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#prinsengracht #amsterdam #grachtengordel #amsterdamcentrum #grachtenpand #canalhouse #canalhouses #amsterdamcanals #huisportret #houseportrait #housesketch #urbansketcher
Villa Tinella @villa.tinella in Piemonte, a bit of sunshine in these cold days
Thanks @derkina.interior.design for the commission!
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#piemonte #monferrato #asti #canelli #holidayvilla #villa #vineyard #interiordesign #huisportret #houseportrait #housesketch #huistekening #penart #commissonedart #urbansketcher
A Then & Now of Rokin 75, Amsterdam
Designed by the (still very present) architect Gerrit van Arkel in 1912.
The top was redesigned by Piet Zanstra, of Waterkant/Europarking fame.
Flip through the carrousel to compare now/then
While drawing I noticed he kept the monumental tops of the downpipes, but simply re-arranged them...
2xA3
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#amsterdamcentrum #amsterdam #rokin #damsquare #architecture #archisketch #architects #gerritvanarkel #pietzanstra #huisportret #houseportret #pentekening #urbansketcher #thenandnow
Up for auction:
this drawing of the (back of the) Vondelkerk, a redeveloped church in my neighbourhood, burned down on New Year's Eve
Its owner @stadsherstel is raising money to rebuild it
You can bid on this drawing for 24 hours in the comments below: leave a comment with your bid. Bidding starts at €200
All the money will obviously go to Stadsherstel (you can do the donation yourself)
Prints will follow later
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#vondelkerk #church #auction #stadsherstel #vondelpark #oudwest #amsterdamwest #amsterdam #redevelopment
Skyscrapers, cars, caravans, beaches, beachhouses, canalhouses, shops, trees, homes...
2025 had it all
A big thank you to everyone who commissioned me!
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#artvsartist #penart #blackandwhiteart #commissionedart #bestwishes #canalhouse #beachhouse #skyscrapers #amsterdam #newyorknewyork #ouddorp #urbansketchers
Leidseplein at night, Amsterdam
Every year I'm invited to make a drawing for RINO, an educational organisation for mental health professionals, located between the @burgerkingnl and their logo on the rooftop
And what's better than this iconic square at night?
They use it for their christmas card - so… merry christmas everyone! (or any other holiday you’re celebrating) 🙏
Thanks Martijn & RINO for the commission!
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#leidseplein #amsterdamcentrum #amsterdam #penart #amsterdamart #burgerking #lovelysquares #hetnieuwebouwen #huisportret #nightsketch #houseportrait #urbansketcher
Jaski Art Gallery @jaskigallery
Nieuwe Spiegelstraat, Amsterdam
I've passed this gallery thousands of times when it was part of my daily commute: cycling from Oud-West, passing underneath the @rijksmuseum , to the Herengracht
Admiring the art, ringing my bell and scaring tourists along the way... 😱🚲
Thanks Christine for the commission!
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#spiegelkwartier #museumkwartier #grachtengordel #amsterdamcentrum #amsterdam #pentekening #penart #artgallery #modernart #housesketch #huisportret #huistekening #houseportrait #urbansketcher
Delistraat, Indische Buurt, Amsterdam
Last year I drew a similar house two doors to the right from this one -> If you slide to the last image in this slideshow you can spot the subtle differences
Thanks Edoardo for the commission!
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#indischebuurt #amsterdamoost #amsterdam #huisportret #houseportrait #penart #blackandwhite #housesketch #huistekening #pensketch #urbansketchers
Singelblok, Amsterdam
A new block of apartments overlooking the Noord subway station, following the curved Elzenhagensingel
Architects @inboarchitects & @bureauvaneig
Thanks Melanie @thuisbijvesteda for the commission
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#noord #amsterdamnoord #garedunord #singelblok #amsterdam #nieuwbouw #realestatedevelopment #architect #archisketch #urbansketcher
Magere Brug, Amsterdam
Paris might have the Eiffel Tower, London the Tower Bridge - we have the 'skinny bridge', an iconic wooden drawbridge across the Amstel river
Thanks Diana & Greg for the commission!
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FINE ART PRINTS AVAILABLE SOON!
DM if you're interested
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#magerebrug #amstel #grachtengordel #amsterdamcentrum #amsterdam #penart #amsterdamart #bridges #drawbridge #woodenbridge #amsterdamcity #urbansketcher
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