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Kasper on paper

@kasperonpaper.bsky.social

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Dad, art teacher, theatre director, left handed sketcher.
📍Amsterdam, The Netherlands

This is a place to collect my work on paper. Urban sketching, ideas for theatre projects, and more. Hope you enjoy! ✍🏼🎨

All shared images are made by me.

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Kasper on paper

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In my humble opinion, this is the most elegant ticket office in the world. They sell rides on a sightseeing boat through the canals of #amsterdam. #usknl #urbansketchers #uskamsterdam #rondvaart #rokin
#lamysafari #hahnemühlesketchbook
#amsterdamcentrum #watercolor #watercolor #ArtYear

Sketch in ink and watercolor of a small ticket office in the center of Amsterdam.

Photo of the sketched building, including a sightseeing boat in the foreground

October 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM

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With this drawing I struggled. Let it sit, came back to it. Now I’m satisfied to let it be. Also, this won’t be the last time I will draw this building, it’s beautiful.
#usknl #uskamsterdam #watercolor #urbansketching #lamysafari #ijburg #amsterdam #sluishuis @koosjekoene.bsky.social

Watercolor painting of a tall modern building that’s leaning over water, as if a corner has been cut away

Photo of the scene where I sat sketching

September 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM

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A wounded bleu heron seeks refuge in our backyard. Poor beautiful creature. My son named him Herold. An animal shelter will pick him up shortly. #drawntoremember #usknl #urbansketchers #uskamsterdam
#drawingnature #graphite #blueheron

My hand holds up a sketchbook to show a quick pencil drawing of a blue heron.

Same sketch book, out of focus. In the background the heron, standing in a garden. Next to him a plastic bowl with water.

August 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM

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I like to study other artists, and this week I enjoyed looking closely at the work of drawing wizard @paulheaston.bsky.social. This is one of the sketches, channeling his impressive hatching skills.
#usknl #uskamsterdam #urbansketcher #watercolor #urbansketching #lamysafari #amsterdamnoord

Backyard sketch, in which I focused on practicing my hatching skills.
In the background a solid wooden fence, in front shrubbery and a very low brick wall, bordering the lawn

August 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM

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A young blackcap flew against our window.
#usknl #uskamsterdam #urbansketcher #watercolor #ArtYear #mixedmedia #urbansketching #sketchingnature

July 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM

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My first time at a sketching event, and I went immediately for the biggest: #NationalSketchDay. I liked it! Many conversations with lovely people. This is the sketch I am most satisfied with. #amersfoort #usknl #uskamersfoort #lamysafari #watercolor #ArtYear #artistmeetup #urbansketching

Sketch of #Muurhuizen in #Amersfoort, in watercolor and fountain pen ink drawing.

Photo of sketched scene, on the left a window in a white plastered wall, to the right a high old red brick wall that surrounds a garden.

Photo of my sketchbook in front of the house

July 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM

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The huge letters spell ‘BOTEL’, it’s a hotel on a boat. And letters are actual hotel rooms! And the bird is one of my favorites, a ‘visdiefje’ (common tern). #usknl #uskamsterdam #amsterdam #amsterdamnoord #ndsm #urbansketchers #lamysafari #watercolor #hahnemühlesketchbook #urbansketching #botel

June 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM

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Maybe I should buy a leporello sketchbook 😅. My solution of fitting a wide horizon in a small sketchbook. #usknl #uskamsterdam #amsterdam #amsterdamnoord #watercolor #keerkringpark #hetij #riverview #bigship #urbansketching #lamysafari #hahnemühlesketchbook

Watercolor painting of a river view in Amsterdam.
The building on the right is the #ICL a factory that produces a lot of unhealthy air and stench

April 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM

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Spring is my favorite season, by far. Saw this lovely #dotterbloem, growing out of the rubble last year left behind. #usknl #uskamsterdam #amsterdam #amsterdamnoord #watercolor #buiksloterbreekpark #drawingnature #springtime #noordoogstamsterdam #urbansketchers #lamysafari #hahnemühlesketchbook

Watercolor painting of a yellow dotterbloem (I don’t know how it’s called in English), amidst dead twigs and leaves.

The drawing in progress, with the model in the background

April 21, 2025 at 6:42 AM

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I was at this lovely farmers market, where this lovely small merry go round stood. Unfortunately for the kids, it didn’t turn while I was there. #usknl #uskamsterdam #amsterdam #amsterdamnoord #watercolor #urbansketching #noordoogstamsterdam #urbansketchers #lamysafari #hahnemühlesketchbook

April 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM

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As a #watercolor painting, is it possible to be more Amsterdam than this? #usknl #uskamsterdam #amsterdam #amstel #woonboot #groenburgwal #amsterdamcentrum #urbansketchers #lamysafari #hahnemühlesketchbook #urbansketching

Watercolor painting of the river Amstel, in the city center of Amsterdam. There is a green fence on the waterfront, a house boat on the right, and a bridge and houses in the background

Earlier stage of the work, only line drawing

March 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM

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And I’m back in nature. Or better: on the very edge of town, where it’s silent. And I realized, through the busy spring sounds of geese and ducks, that what I call silence, really is the absence of human noise. #urbansketching #uskamsterdam #usknl #watercolor #amsterdam #amsterdamnoord #durgerdam

#watercolor painting, water in the foreground, big electrify masts leading your eye to the sky line of Amsterdam

March 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM

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I’ve drawn a 🐖! Is this #ruralsketching? Also, used my new watercolor pencils, like it! #usknl #uskamsterdam #amsterdam #amsterdamnoord #watercolor #newareaunlocked #noordoogstamsterdam #urbansketchers #lamysafari #hahnemühlesketchbook

Watercolor sketch of a golden brown pig. Made on the outskirts of #amsterdamnoord.

A photo of the pigs, there are seven in the frame, very curious. ‘What are you doing?’

February 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM

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My #urbansketching is getting more urban. #usknl #uskamsterdam #amsterdam #watercolor #hetij #gvb #urbansketchers #lamysafari #rohrer&klingnerink #hahnemühlesketchbook

Urban ink and watercolor sketch of the busy traffic along the IJ river in Amsterdam.

A reference photo of the scene taken while sketching,

February 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM

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My wife is surprised by the not-beautiful-places I choose to sketch. This one I chose for its complexity. It’s more about learning to draw than remembering. #usknl #urbansketchers #watercolor #uskamsterdam #amsterdamnoord @urbansketchers.bsky.social

Watercolor painting of an highway viaduct

February 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM

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reflections in water are a challenge to draw, I’m fairly satisfied with this attempt 🙂 #uskamsterdam #urbansketchers #amsterdamnoord

February 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM

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This building has intrigued me for years. What is it? Inner critic says: this is not my best work. Especially the composition could have been more exciting. #uskamsterdam #urbansketchers #watercolor #amsterdamnoord #lamysafari