Viktoria Night Art

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Viktoria Night Art

Artist in Amsterdam - watercolors, prints, urban sketching, digital art, portraits, commissions

13/07/2026

On Sunday, the Lord’s Day, the lovely ladies of Urban Sketchers Zaandam, Haarlem, and Amsterdam organized a big group sketching event around Amsterdam Central Station.

While many people were sketching the St. Nicholas church a few doors away, I decided to sketch the Ramen Kingdom. 🍜 👑

I was intrigued by the Ramen Kingdom’s long awaited second coming that I watched unfold on Instagram. I’d never been there before it closed, but I was very curious about the amazing ramen everyone was raving about.

The large Mario in the window was harder to draw that I thought it would be. (Why is his head so big???) The cool Japanese font on the sign gave me a great opportunity to use my Japanese brush pens. 🖊️

While I was sketching, the restaurant workers came out and said hi. Eventually someone came out and gave me a delicious green tea. 🍵 😋 🙏

I’ve heard of sketchers getting free coffee when drawing a restaurant, but I’ve never experienced it myself.

After I was done sketching they invited me in to sample some of their unforgettable ramen, and I was over the moon! 🌙

It was truly a historic moment for me. It felt like I died and went to ramen heaven. 🍜 ☁️ 👼

I can’t wait until I can come back with my kids. They are big ramen fans. 🪭 in the meantime I was thinking about changing my bio to say “Will work for Ramen” 🍜 😆 💪🏽👩‍🎨

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13/06/2026

This weekend I exhibited two light cubes based around the idea of randomness. Randomness is very important in computer security, as it’s the basis for cryptography and securing our online communications. True randomness was a big deal in my previous career in computer security.

The black cube is displaying a random pattern I made with a Processing program, and a color visualization I animated of Beethoven’s 5th symphony. The outside is painted with Culture Hustle’s Blackest Black. Forcing the viewer to look through a peep hole increases the feeling of secrecy. 🤫

The other cube, which I call an “inside out cube” is displaying the same random color algorithm as created by a Raspberry Pi. It’s kind of the opposite - happy go lucky and letting it all hang out. Some people said it induces a meditative state. It grabs your attention and then forces you to think of nothing.

Both are on display for one more day at Artless in Amsterdam. ❌❌❌

10/06/2026

I got my tile back after being fired. All the light blue blobs that the teacher said would stay 3-D off the surface kind of blobbed out and took up all the space around them. It still turned out ok I guess. It adds to the galaxy feel. 🌌

07/04/2026

Last winter someone organized a sketch meetup to the newly opened Nederlandse Bank building in the middle of Amsterdam.

It used to be like Fort Knox, where all the Dutch gold was kept in the basement. Since then they have relocated the gold to a more secure location. Now common folk are allowed to take a gander inside the building and see the impressive vaults.

There is also a cafe upstairs that is supposed to be open to the public, but it wasn’t open at the time of our meet up. It might be worth organizing another trip back to this place to check it out. 🤔

Since we were stuck downstairs and it was very cold outside there wasn’t that much to sketch, so I sketched this newly planted tree. It was on top of some newly planted dirt. Everything had just been newly renovated inside, also the landscaping. It would be interesting to see what the garden area looks like now after its humble beginnings.

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01/04/2026

Whales are extraordinary creatures. They’re the largest mammals on Earth 🌏 but they can also… fly!

23/01/2026

Yesterday was the last day of my daughter‘s crochet class and I was waiting inside for her due to the cold weather.

I was struggling for something “interesting”to sketch, when I sort of relaxed my eyes and noticed that even in the cold gray weather there are still green trees and colorful party “slingers” leftover from a past birthday party.

Drawing all of the remaining grey parts with a purple fineliner cheered me up the rest of the way.

I was happy that with some patience I could turn a “boring” scene into something fun to sketch. 😊

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