Baby Creative Day

Well I thought I could easily find time to paint as a part of our 3 day holiday weekend, I was wrong. I was about to paint on my table. Iris saw me and ask to sit with me. I let her on the high chair then she start begging for paint. So I had to stall my own painting session and watch Iris play with my little watercolor pallette. She pick Winsor Newton fan brush out of my brush jar herself. She then dive right into watercolor especially the red one. I thought she shows a good potential for her first time with watercolor. I am her mom so I am truly bias.

Test Of Time...

We woke up to a 3 day holiday weekend. We get an additional day of because of the make up of the Thai mother day (Aug12). Tone grabbed an article from the paper and the map and lead our way to Bangnumpueng Floating market. It is not too far from where we live. It is one of the last green zone near Bangkok and right on Chaopraya river. We had fun shopping at the floating market all morning until Tone drove through a last temple on the route. I felt like we slipped thru the time-machine. This is an old temple from late Ayuthya era (about 300 years ago). Tone, Iris, and I went in side the decaying hall and felt in awe with the mural and the impact that it made us feel back in time three century. And what amaze me is that this temple stood right in the middle of modern world. And many people walk by it.

The Blue Spirit of Chaosamran Beach

This is a Conte Crayon work of a postcard size. This is done as a part of Wetcanvas art exchange project. I took a ton of fishing boat photos while we went to Chaosamran beach, Thailand, 2 months ago. I never have enough of the boat landscape.

Cohasset, Massachusetts

This a Conte crayon work of a postcard size. It is done as a part of a Wetcanvas art project exchange. Last April, Tone and I visit southern coastal town of Massachusetts, USA. We had a little short trip drive along the coast line. This is a harbor scene from this beautiful quiet town, called, Cohasset. There were many gorgeous homes along the shoreline to look at as well.

Chaosamran Beach

Well, Tone, me, and Iris decide to take a little break before the semester starts. Believe me, we have been busy even before that time. Our rule of thumb is if we can go, just go cause you never know what will be thrown at you even on our weekend.
The drive to Chaosamran Beach was pleasant, only 2 hours from Bangkok. We checked in our boat-like resort. We had a simple dinner by the beach and woke up to the fishing boats docking right by the beach at our resort. So many painting opportunity. So I did 5 plien airs. I love it. Tone and Iris enjoyed the place too. We definitely will be coming back here.

Nude Study#1

Another attempt at a new medium, conte crayon. This is in a postcard size. I still have a lot to learn about the blending and drawing but I am happy I can complete this today.

Simple things around me

This has been a very busy weekend. I end up do two small/tiny paintings though. The first one, "Le Clip", is my experiment with Winsor Newton drawing inks. I am not sure how to use it so I end up using it just like watercolor. The second one, "Iris", is another experiment with Conte Crayon and portrait. Iris is the name of my daughter. Both are in postcard size.