my village by the sea

yesterday i visited my father back home in Batu Pahat Johor. our place is near the sea ( malacca straits) where fishing is one of the main income. I sat down under the tree near the jetty and began sketching the boats and people around it . It is a quite morning... I found out it is not easy to draw boats and water..

my instruments

Everybody have their own working instruments . So am I, my instruments is quite complicated. Everyday I am looking and using it and yesterday I decided to sketch it on my moleskine with fountain pen and ink.

Vietnam

Just to publish my sketch in the blog for safekeeping. This is vietnam Ho Chi Min city .. a busy with lots and lots of motorcycles. I like the telephone wire jumble up in the sky and its friendly people. Lots of the building reflecting a french colonial era but many have been torn down for the same reason...

ibrahim husein (1936-2009)

two days ago (feb 19) one of our nation great artist passed away. Since my younger day I never missed to visit the national gallery every weekends just to see his paintings over and over again. Never had a chance to meet him and now he's in haven. Ibrahim or Ib once said:

My paintings have parallel lives of personal emotion and social commentary. Artists, creative people, we're not practical, we work from the heart. It comes out of your private world and into the world everyone knows.

Here's to you Ib...

waiting

its my turn to sent the kids to music school and the sketch made with ball point pen I found lying on the floor (as I forgot to bring my favourite pen) with watercolor and moleskine watercolor paper. I began to like the moleskine watercolor paper.

my son 2

sketch of azib while watching his favourite cartoon network channel.

old sketch

old sketch from time magazine year 2008.