Long time no see...

Well, my title is a bit broken English for Thai people... pardon me... but I truly mean that.  As we have to deal with our hyper second child... so my time to blogging was lagging but I try to keep it alive again.

Here are some part of life-sketching from the list of Scavanger Hunt#320 on Wetcanvas.com.  Recently I just got a few of Copic markers to play it so I enjoy learning to use them here and there in my sketches.

The little red fabric bag is a Thai hilltribe handcraft done as a write bag... for you to put your keys in and wrap it around your wrist while you go jogging.  It works out pretty nice for me if I head out for a walk/jog.

Scavenger Hunt#289

  Most sketches were done while I was having my late lunch after teaching.  The theme of this Hunt was about all kinds of colors.

Zig-Zag hair-do

Today I sketch Miss Iris's braided hair for 'zig-zag' item on Wetcanvas's Scavenger Hunt#276.  She just turned 7 yr old a couple days ago.  Done in my A5 Japanese sketchbook with watercolor and pencil.

Scavenger Hunt - 257

Here are sketches from life for the assigned list of Scavenger Hunt 257 on Wetcanvas.com.

Extraordinary pose

I guess the girl can do pretty much anything. This is a life-sketch as a part of ScavengerHunt#256 on Wetcanvas.com, done with pencil, color pencils, and Talen watercolors.

Three Musketeers

A still-life of Thai fruits. Two tiny pineapples from northern Thailand, and a pink dragon fruit. I did these as a part of my humble World-Wide SketchCrawl#32 that I don't feel well to go out to sketch. So I sketching in these fruits using my FB acrylic inks and Sumi ink on my large Fabriano Vanezea sketchbook.

From Korea

This is a 30 min. digital sketch using TwistedBrush freeware of a soup spoon & chopsticks souvenir from Korea given to me by my colleague.

ScavengerHunt#206

It is great to get to record how my kids have grown. Today I got a chance to do some life sketches and also recorded her playing on the floor with our nanny.

Six month milestone.

Lily just turned six months a few days ago. She is adorable, chubby, and fun to hang out with. She is fluent to body rolling at this stage. She can not sit or crawl by herself yet. Though my life has slowed down somewhat due to her caring, I am a happy mama.

Cook and Sketch

Today I have some time to play with my culinary muse. So I made my first ever Bangkok clam chowder from scratch, using local clams with a recipe from the Internet. Yes, the south of Bangkok is border with the gulf of Thailand and has plenty of seafood. We just don't have a sandy beach... it is more of a muddy sea mangrove shore.

I cooked up a big pot of clam chowder and decide to sketch it in my brown bag sketchbook with gouache. It was quite muddy earlier in clam shells area but I went in later with some pastel pencils to recover it. The pink bits you see were bacons.

Scavenger Hunt#191

T
his is a group of sketches from life subjects for Wetcanvas Scavenger Hunt.

Push and Sketch

My life is a challenge, juggling work, art, music, and pushing my 5 month old around on top of arguing with my 5 yr old. I am taking it day by day and with my own colors.

Play and Sketch

Well we took Iris to the kid play zone at the neighborhood mall. So I got an ink sketch of the coin-operated horse. Later I scanned the drawing in and add some colors digitally using TwistedBrush freeware software. It was fun, and I will definitely try this again. So Iris got to play and I got to sketch...

Sketch and Play

This morning Iris and I sketched together. I was trying to sketch her. and here are the works of mine on left and Iris's on the right (She got some the block style going). Iris came back to create some marks framing my sketch of her. We use water soluable crayon and do it on a giant kido sketchbook.

I later added some blue shadow with Coran D'che watercolor pencil.

Lily's portrait

Lily at 1 month and 1 day... done using Rembrandt soft pastel in my 8x10 inch Thai sketchbook, about 25 minutes.

Baby Lily was born ...

Well, a big bunch of joy has arrived to our family. On Monday March 22, I was on the regular check-up of my 37-week pregnancy, then the doctor told me that I had already started contraction and I had to be admitted immediately. Thanks goodness that Tone was with me and giving me support when they wheeled me to the delivery room. So the same night around 9:24 pm., baby Lily was born. She was 3.9 Kg. or around 8.5 pound and 53 cm. long. We are both feeling fine now and enjoying our first night together at home.

Scavenger Hunt#166

I did these in my new sketchbook 8x10 inch 80 grams paper. It might not suit the watermedia (got some buckles) but it is fun to try it out. Mostly done with a brown Stabilo pen with Koi-travel set watercolor.

#1 cheap -- clip
#2 precious -- our wedding photo, taken at the park
#3 brush
#4 wood -- wooden comb
#5 trip


#6 office supply -- glue stick
#7 accessory -- Iris-s hair clips
#8 something hanging -- ear rings
#9 cosmetic -- a lipstick
#10 belong to other -- Tone-s tie


#11 Sturdy -- a giant tree at the park, pencil 2B
#12 made of paper -- jig-saw puzzles
#13 something I rarely use -- oil paint



#14 Ear -- two views of 2 students ears while I proctor the exam
#15 Hand gesture -- of another student while she was doing the exam.



#16 Closed -- the exhibition hall at the University of Fine Arts, Bangkok. It is closed today. My SketchCrawl friend from Germany, Karin, and I stayed around and sketch from the outside.


#17 long -- the Reclining Buddha, approx. 150 ft. long and 48 ft. high in the head part. I also include the actual image.

Scavenger Hunt#165

This sketch was done while our family were at a shopping mall and Iris was trying out some "Cogo", a cheapo version of Lego, at the toy department.

Scavenger Hunt#164

Here are life-sketches of things around me. The first group is done with pencils, the medium I rarely used. The second group is done with Indian-ink and watercolor, they are Thai vegetables and fruits.

Fruit bowl still-life

I am trying some digital with my fruit bowl still-life set up using TwistedBrush freeware (combination of oil-paint strokes and blending tool). This is quite fun. The best part of the session is that I ate my fruit models afterward.