Sunday, January 28, 2007

New shoes.

didn't had much time today, ... some shopping.
While doing that, my old shoes broke.
I can fix them, maybe tomorrow.

Anyway i had a 20 minutes sketch
to draw my "Brand New Shoes!"
Not for sale.

5 comments:

Schuivert said...

Good choice of shoes René! Watertight, easy to clean, lots of room for thick socks and not much chance that anything goes wrong with them.
And as a regular user you are probably used to the hardness of the edges.. but I don't suppose they still make them somewhere around you? Only saw it once, an old little shop where they where still made by hand.

René PleinAir said...

Thanks Bart,

Indeed i walk on "klompen" for as long i remember, and yes you get some "eelt" on those hard edges places you even grow more bone on those spots, they discovered that by excavated corpses! I buy them by the same people that i did all those years, that's because now a days they also make "souvenir"s klompen" just to walk short distances or purely for show.

Frank A. said...

Nice Rene ! I did not think that there were many left who still wore the "klompen ?" these days. A sketch of the broken ones would have been interesting.

Is that your home behind the car in the last painting of your neighbourhood ? A nice piece, love the colour.

Take care.

Daniela Lot said...

Hi, René!

There is a little city near Campinas called Holambra (Holand + Brasil), where many dutch people live. Each year there is a festival there, where i 've been some times. I was always fascinated for this kind of shoes... Wouldnt be able to walk in one of those, though... :)

rob ijbema said...

oooh rene,you are so Hollands!
i like it

i never wore klompen but they are great for making saling boats!