Figuur op een zeilboot 1890 - 1946

Here's a sketch of a sailboat, it's author, Cornelis Vreedenburgh, uses ballpoint pen to make this drawing in a sketchbook. Imagine Vreedenburgh out there on the water, the boat gently rocking, the sun maybe glinting off the waves. He's got his sketchbook open, trying to capture the essence of the scene with just a few lines. It's not about getting every detail perfect, it's more about feeling the movement, the atmosphere, and maybe the solitude of being on the water. Look at those quick, confident strokes—they really give you a sense of the boat gliding through the water and it makes me think about artists like Philip Guston, who also embraced a kind of raw, immediate mark-making in his later work. What I love about sketches like this is how open-ended they are, they are conversations between artists, across decades and different mediums!