Monday, November 3, 2008
Bangkok to Pai
This illustration is the first entry in my travel notebook in 2002. I remember drawing the girl with the elongated neck first in a bar in Bangkok and can't remember if I imagined my next port of call - Pai in northern Thailand or drew the background when I arrived there.
This piece was made using pencil pastel and gouache.
Hope you enjoy the work.
-Richard
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Paddy in his hammock
Made this pastel sketch looking out from the hut in Pai. Pj my travel buddy, loved that hammock. Think you can get a sence of the surrounding jungle just by the colours and the way its drawn.
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Pai - at the river lodge
paddy field and Frank
The piece on the left depicts a woman at labour in a rice paddy.
The colours, sky and the way she is kind of tied up nearly hanging give the illustration a kind of sinister feel.
On the right is an illustration made on the roof of a boat of a Dutch guy called Frank who was 'full of beans' even though he used to take a hand full of Valium pills each day.
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travel companions
Made this sketch during a two day boat journey along the mekong river.
We left from close to Chang Rai in the north of Thailand and headed towards Pakbang in northern Laos.
On the left side is a drawing of artist and great friend Mark Redden , Aoife Casey whom I went to college with - then an english guy called Roo and his girlfriend.
Think we were all drunk on rice whiskey!
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friendly Monk near a shrine
dry of thoughts...
H'mong villagers
A sketch of Hmong people.
This area of the Mekong river in northern Laos was so dark with sediment.
Think the drawing conveys this notion of soil and captures a glimps of a wet day by the Mekong.
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cliffs in Vang Vieng
confined clown
Made this sketch in Vang Vieng in Northern Laos.
There were alot of Israeli tourists around this beautiful remote place and that made me not want to go out to much. Lets just say I didn't like there style and attitude towards the locals and people in general.
So I stayed in and read 'The Catcher on the Rye', smoked too much, and made this drawing.
I like it.
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tuk tuk and forest reservation
Lao Paco
A nature reserve near Vientiane. Our hut was elevated looking down over the Mekong river.
Beautiful place. The sound if insects in the evening was deafing till you got used to it.
Loads of wild life including very large scorpions that liked to visit our balcony in the evenings!
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Ms. Ken
Myself and Paddy drank Lots of beer at this womans shop in Savannakhet.
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waterfalls near Luang Prabang
This mixed media sketch was made after a trip to see the Kuang Si falls near Luang Prabang in the north of Laos.
There were lots of different levels at this fall with pools to swim in. At the very top(100ft up or so) there was a huge natural pool with a dangerous swinging rope. Great fun!
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Mekong river
four thousand islands, Don Det
Mr. Man's son
bamboo diner
We went out to eat on the outskirts of Phenom Penh in really elevated complex of bamboo huts sitting over a large swamp or dump.it was the most unusual place. people would come across these really skinny walkways carrying your food. I remember really large geckos living in the roof of the huts.
This is a pastel and watercolour sketch. It depicts the hut roof and walls - the phone you call your order into the kicthen on, the top of Paddy's head and hammocks ropes.
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