Play with me

These are my tiny dinosour erasers & an egg container set.  I never use any of them as intended eraser though.

Hua Hin Still-life

We are vacationing at Hua Hin, a seaside town, 2 hrs away from Bangkok.  We rent a condo right on a beach and the place are full of cool decorations.  So I borrow some of them to set up this still-life.  I painted this while Tone took the kids to the pool.

Done with watercolor & pencils on 10x14 inch Canson 140 lb paper.

The Three Musketeers..

This is a 8x10 inch mixed media (wc, pencil, and Chinese ink) in a sketchbook. The ref. photo was given by Abdul-Yunir on Flickr.   I did this as a part of Wetcanvas.com Watermedia April 2014 Challenge.

March 7 -- Bookcover and an ad. sketches

Done in my giant Thai sketchbook 11x14 inch, a full page for the Lancome ad.   The book cover add was about 4x6 inch. ... Have a great weekend guys.!!!

Rhodo in a crop

This is an 8x11 inch watercolor on Fabriano Studio 140 lb block.  This is my first big(er) format painting in years (after busy with the hyper Lily baby daughter).  I did this as a part of Weekend Drawing Event (Jan 10) on Wetcanvas.com

Landscape Project -- Krabi, Thailand

This is a mini art trading card, 2.5x3.5 inch watercolor of an island in the south of Thailand.  This card goes to Jeanne in California.

Landscape project -- Lohdalem & Tonsay bay, Thailand

This ATC (2.5x3.5 inch art card) is with Joan in New York now.  It is a scene from the southern island in Krabi province of Thailand.   Ref. image by Greg Napp, on Flickr creative commons.

#41 WorldWide SketchCrawl

Originally we had planed to join the Bangkok Sketchers group activity workshop at Cafe Cassia in Sukhumvit area of Bangkok to sketch on SketchCrawl#41 day.  However, many things happen to our little family  i.e. an accident and the kid's sickness, so we were quite tired and started our SketchCrawl Sat Oct. 19  late in afternoon.   So I decided to bring my little family to a short bookstore trip in downtown Bangkok instead.  Here are some of my quick ink sketches of downtown area of Bangkok i.e Erawan shrine, and X'Mas tree preparation in front of Central World.

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.

Day 3 -- Garbage truck & more blooming weed

I sketched a garbage truck parking at one corner of our campus.  Also near by, there is a big cluster bushes of this type of blooming weed.  I had to sketch this.  I end the day with a cold cup of Chrysanthemum tea and some Thai sweet.

Day 2 -- Beautiful weed

This weed grows in front of our house by bird seeding.  It has wonderful red & yellow spot cluster flowers, very fastinating.  I actually sketched this on Jan 2nd but I forgot to change the rubber date stamp.

Day 1 -- Tea pot & a unique home

I restart Brenda's Swenson 75-day sketch challenge again.  I hope I can finish the challenge this time.


We had a family dim-sum meal at Mei-Yuan Chinese restaurant as a part of our family New Year celebration.  So I sketch the tea pot  & cup with Chrynsanthemum tea.

After the dim-sum, we took advantage of Bangkok's empty road during New Year long holidays by driving by further neighborhood.  Tone and I were fascinated with this unique home, a combination of rustic stone on the bottom floor and the art deco cover on the 2nd floor.

End of year Sketching Spree -- Old Warehouse

Tone and I have been driven by these clusters of old warehouse on CharoenNakorn Road, Bangkok for so many years.  I was too shy to stop by to sketch.  However, today, Tone and I were ready to stop by during a very quiet Thai New Year holiday weekend and sketch it.  We met the owner too.  He is so kind and told us that the ware house is more than 50 yr old. -- Happy New Year everyone...!!!

End of year Sketching Spree -- Cafe Cyclo

This is the first time Tone & I stopped at an unknown little cafe which we had driven by before.  We never knew that they have a cute Three-Wheel-Tuk-Tuk or "Cyclo" in Vietnamese inside.  So I had to sketch this.  I think both the owners and I were very happy to see the sketch. -- Happy New Year everyone.!!!

Merry Christmas to you all

Merry Christmas 2012 to you all.  Thanks for being here.  Your support meant a lot to me.

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.

World-Wide SketchCrawl#37 Rajburi, Thailand

I participated in the 37th World-wide SketchCrawl in Rajburi, Thailand.

This time, my family and I went to SuanPheung, Rajburi, a mountain town 100 miles west of Bangkok.  There are lots of rustic resorts along the Thai-Burma mountain border.

The first one was the roadside fruit stand opposite our resort.

The second one was at the cafe on the mountain top overlooking the mountains bordering Thailand and Burma.  The cafe also offered the local drink, a fresh pineapple juice in a bamboo container.

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.

Blue gas masks

  No..!!!  . This is not a scene from "Planet of the Ape".  It was our kids this morning being treated with vapor medicine for their respiratory infection at the hospital. They are doing better now. I did the ink at scene under the rolling eye nurse, about 3 min. for each kid. I later colored them at home.

Piano tuning

Sorry for being absent for some time.    I just got tired from trying to juggle my career, piano lessons, arts, and my two kids and the little one is a very active two year old.  I am still around and do some sketching and traveling when I can.  I need to blog about my recent trip to the US and New York City soon.

In the mean while, these are sketches of the piano tuning happened at our love pad last weekend.  Tone and I really appreciate this tuner who pay attention to very fine details of our family treasure.  I wish you could hear our music.