Perseverance

Have you ever watched the movie "Wall-E"? The female star robot, named, Eve, was programmed to search the giant-dumped planet (our Earth) for something super spectacular. At that time the earth were only filled with scraped rusty metals, and junks, no green left. Then Eve's eyes widen when the male star robot, named, "Wall-E", show her what would be the last green tiny plant. Eve went nuts and took the only survival plant back to her spaceship.

So this morning I closely look at my bathtub drain hole; there was some thing poking up from it. It was a tip of a plant. That might not be a surprise to you, but if I tell you that I found this incident in our bathroom of our second floor. This tiny weed/plant creep up through the dark drain tunnel (2 floor up) to get the peek of light. What a mighty flora !!! I don't know what to do with it yet in our drain hole. Will it break our pipe... I don't know and I hope not but at least I am grateful for this tiny persevered miracle. What do ya think?

Carousels

These are the two watercolor art trading cards I did for an art exchange project on Wetcanvas. I am glad both arrived to Canada, and India safely. The two cards were done from public-domain photos on flickr by ibobvw, and twoblueday respectively.

I first did not think of anything much except their happy colors attracted me to paint until my arty friend, Rose, point it out that I was longing to something in my childhood. May be that has some truth in it but my childhood in a very modest upbringing in a quite modest country like Thailand could not be that bright and charming as depicted in the referenced photos. Yes, I did ride some carousels here, but it was so old looking, old enough that it did not register any vivid memory in my mind.

I am glad that after thirty something years of upbringing now I can show a very nice mini carousel to my daughter in an American style fancy shopping mall near our house. The ironic is that Iris was scared of it when I put her on it four months ago. I will definitely try to put Iris on a carousel again soon. After all, every child deserves to have a happy memory on a carousel.

November -- NaBloPoMo

I decide to do NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) or blogging daily for November. I suppose I can try this though my daily work is getting crazier each day. I hope you can join along or at least check me up from time to time. I think my NaBloPoMo will be a mix of arts and life around me. So here we go...

Artober -- Oct 30, 2008

I just join my art friend Diahn's Artober movement. Here is a sketch I did today for Wetcanvas's Scavenger Hunt as "Made of paper".

SketchCrawl#20 & Artober -- October 25, 2008

Today I combine my art's friend, Diahn, Artober sketching with World-wide SketchCrawl#20 right here in Bangkok.

I am not sure if anyone had done previous Sketchcrawl in Bangkok, Thailand before. At least I am the one who went solo here this time. The day started by I did some plein air sketching of the outside view of my neighborhood. Then I packed my sketching stuffs and getting in a cab for some down town adventure by Chraopraya River. The cab snaked through the neighborhood roads to one of the major pier on the west side of Bangkok, Pepsi pier. This pier is the place where all Pepsi products get distributed by giant ships to the northern part of the country. I wonder if Coke has the similar type pier but so far I heard of none. I sketched some parked Tuk Tuks at the pier entrance, then the pier. Then I hopped on the ferry to cross Chraopraya River but my art tote's strap malfunctioned and it was no longer fun to travel with both hands hauling the bag instead of carrying it. So I ended up sitting at the ferry pier of the otherside of the river to do some more sketching of the river leaping to downtown Bangkok. All in all it took about 2 hours of sketching. I had a lot of fun and thanks for looking at my results. This was my first SketchCrawl and I hope to join some more in the future.

Artober -- Oct 24, 2008

I just join my art friend Diahn's Artober movement. So today I sketched some stuffs as a part of Wetcanvas Scavenger Hunt#106.

Artober -- Oct 23, 2008

I just join my art friend Diahn's Artober movement. I did not sketch for the past two days. I had to wake up at 4:00 am to work (help setting up the commencement ceremony at Univ. and work at the office afterward till late evening). That makes me hang over for two days.

Anyway, here are some more figure sketching I did today on my big sketch book as a warm up for this Sat. Oct 25 World-wide sketch crawl. Today sketches are from some super quick poses of my daughter playing in the bath tub. She does not stay still more than 10 seconds so it is a challenging thing but fun for me. I have trouble trying to get the proportion right.