Tres Animales, the silverback

                                                        Amsterdam,

Three animal studies I did last night during the comercial breaks of some boring movie which title I had for gotten by the time I woke up this morning...

The sketches were there to greet me when I woke up though, looking me straight in the eye while I tried to focus on the latest world happenings brought to me by the Metro free newspaper and a steaming hot coffee, lots of skimmed milk but suger free, just the way I like it, helping me to get my head straight and be ready to face the sh*t of this world...maybe a brand new day

Tres Animales, Indian Gaur

Tres Animales, the walrus

Typical Amsterdam pisshouse for males

  

                                                       Amsterdam,

This funny looking contraption is a typical Amsterdam urinoir - for males only - located on the Keizersgracht in the Amsterdam canal zone, close to the Anne Frank House which is convenient for when I sell my funny hand made Mandala games at this Numero Uno tourist hotspot here in my beloved Mokum...

I have to admit though that despite this being a urinoir, it is frequently used by the Westermarket square habitual alcoholics as a shithouse as well, black, thin and very smelly typical alcoholic's diarrhea smeared all over the place makes this funny little males only toilet far from attrctive for your daily needs... 

Rene De France

                                                  Amsterdam,

Unfortunately Rene spook Pas D'Anglais and my french has been known to have seen some better days, like when I did my backpacking in former french colonies of the continent of L'Homme Noir...

Still, as a well-experienced streetseller of the Amsterdam city centre with years of interactions with nationalities across the globe, customers from Todas Las Partes de Este Mundo - oh wait...that was Espanyol though I am sure the meaning got across - I managed to convince Rene with his heavily accented French to give me some of his precious tourist time for this sketch, and sold him two Mandala games...even send him and his little rowdy family on their merry way to the Sara´s Pancake House in the Raadhuis Street, right next to the Nadia Hotel, in no tourist guide but the tastiest pancake house in good old Mokum, once they came out of the Anne Frank House..

Merci Beuaocoup, Rene and Bon Voyage back to that obscure little hamlet in the south of Franch you claimed to come from...   

My latest couchsurfer Lydia from London

                                                        Amsterdam,

Lydia, my latest http://www.couchsurfing.org/ guest, has done some fairly interesting things in her life like working in conflict zones as a human rights monitor in Colombia, traveling in Mexico and Kenia, Mongolia, to just name some of her diverse tourist destinations...nowadays working in her native London as a psychoterapist...

 Thanks for your company, Lydia, the great meal we had at the Kam Yin and the two guiness at Cafe De Wildeman, the rainy boat trip across the Amsterdam canals and the Numero Uno conversations we had together...least but not last to take the time for this five minutes drawing...

Three Thai models, the Hot Momma on the boulevard

I did these three Thai ladies last winter during my latest stint in that mys terious Asian realm where I feel relaxed and enjoy the good weather, the cold Leo beers and tasty Thai food...three months a year while my buddies here in Amsterdam freeze their Farang balls off...