Quick watercolor sketch
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Italy Sketch part2
Posted in new artwork, travel on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Italy sketches part 1
Posted in new artwork, travel on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are a selection of sketches using watercolor and bamboo pen and ink inspired by my recent trip to Italy. I’ve used my photographs as reference and/or my memory. Most of the time we experienced cool temperatures and icy winds which made standing about sketching on site a little unpleasant. Although I did sketch on [...]
Bologna Fiera 2009 Italy
Posted in travel on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This year’s visit to the Bologna Children’s Book Fair was still fun even though we were not able to display this time around (see post from previous year). Overall the convention was on the more quiet side in comparison to last year, but beautiful and interesting children’s books from international publishers haven’t failed to show [...]
Another Photoshop Sketch
Posted in travel on February 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This quick sketch was done in Photoshop using scanned watercolor texture and inspired by one of my travel photographs of Guandu Temple near Taipei.
photoshop sketch
Posted in travel on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This quick sketch was done in Photoshop and inspired by my travel photography to Malaysia.
Happy New Year
Posted in travel on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve had the luck to do some traveling before and around christmas. Here are a few insights.
This photo was taken at the Sematan Wildlife Park near Kuching, Malaysia. Native animals are rehabilitated at this facility, for example Orang Utans who only appear on the island of Borneo. With the Park being under new management this [...]
Bologna Book Fair
Posted in travel on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We have just returned from Bologna, Italy where my family displayed their books on kind invitation by the Malay Board of Education
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awardwinning book on display (“Santiago” by Frederico Garcia Lopez), and beautiful artwork on dsiplay by Argentinian illsutrator Christian Montenegro
Amazing view from the airplane crossing the Alps from Germany to Italy
Bologna’s city center is famous for [...]
