9/11/2010

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.

2 comments:

Joan said...

Cooking and sketching is always fun if you don't eat the food too quickly.lol I think the painting is super...much more enticing than real life.

Ai said...

Thank you so much Joan. I hope one day I get to cook and sketch with you.