Iris & Grandma

We are now with our USA. family. We have two more weeks before heading back to Thailand. Today Iris is bonding with Grandma. Grandma is showing Iris the birds at the feeders hanging outside the kitchen windows. I think they are adorable. I am blessed to witness the moment.

From my garden...

I just bought some new Winsor Newton watercolors and decide to try the paints on my photo of one of our plumeria or fragipani from our garden in Bangkok. We have a few varieties. So far they love me and bloom quite often. I miss them when I am away from home. This is a 5x7 watercolor.

Japanese Garden -- Birmingham Botanical Garden

This is a pen & ink over Inktense pencil. I had a chance to stop by Birmingham Botanical Garden today. The weather was gorgeous. I headed straight to the Japanese Garden to sketch. I think it is one of the most beautiful Japanese gardens in the States. Well I only saw two Japanese gardens so far: Birmingham botanical garden, and St.Louis botanical garden. Even then, I am so impress of what Birmingham has to offer: the tea house, the house, and the bell tower. Today there was the dedication ceremony of the bell tower from Rotary Club of Osaka. I was there to witness the people rang the Japanese bell. I rang the Japanese bell too after everybody left the scene. Well one day I hope I can have a little Japanese garden of my own.

Ballerina Delight

Still working on still life from objects found in my friend's house. The transcontinental flight really make me wake up 4:30 am and that is perfect to working on a painting while Iris was still sleeping. This is a 5x7 inch watercolor.

Savannah Apples

Savannah is so inspiring. Even staying in our friends home, seeing their apples lying around in the kitchen really inspired me to do a still life. So this is 5x7 inch watercolor out of Savannah spirit.

Family visit ... USA.

We finally got it together: clearing up our works, packing our stuffs and baby stuff and finally hopping on board of Korean Air to Atlanta Georgia at the end of March. Iris behaved so well on the long flight. Thanks god that Korean air provides individual on-demand entertainment system so Iris had been watching cartoons and kids program during flight. That made it much easier for Tone and I. Finally we landed in Atlanta. We stayed with Tone's sister for her wedding party then drove back to Birmingham and now we visit our friends in Savannah, Georgia. I love Savannah. I feel my artistic motivation has been rejuvenated. Iris is having a blast hanging out with her other two friends as you can see.

Orchid tea party

Today was our very fun-full day. We started early morning by biking around neighborhood, went to the park. I did some watercolor sketching at the park and took some more pics for future painting. On the way back I bought a big bunch of red orchids. I put them in our big vase in my studio table with additional story book dolls, and small tea cups... and Valla !!!. I got my still-life set up. This is about 9x11 inch watercolor. I had fun today.