Inside Out

I gazed out of the window longing for home. What was happening inside was nothing great compared with nature's flourish outside. I chose to record the humble work of nature while trying hard to pay attention to the happenings inside. At least the result was pleasant and the moments well spent.

Those moments...

Living the moments, savour the coffee and the muffin...
and leaves in a foreign land.

Drawing flowers

My son asked me yesterday why it was that people in general find it difficult to draw? I told him that his ability to draw effortlessly is a gift that not many possess. I cherish this gift too for it has given me a way of appreciating nature more intensely.

Princesses

When I was a kid, my favourite subject for drawing has always been girls. Girls in mini skirts, bell bottoms, high heels, hot pants. I just loved drawing girls. That was the art of my childhood. Recently, I met a little girl who has a large collection of stickers and her favourites were those of Disney princesses, Hello Kitty and Barbie dolls.

To entertain her, I drew some of her stickers for her to colour because she loved colouring. She liked it very much and when her mum remarked that my drawings were good, I just said that it was nothing much really because it is just copy drawing. I said that I would gladly draw on the request of her little girl because it made me happy to know that even though my drawings were not commercial successes, they were at least admired and I promised that I would continue to draw for her.

These drawings below are original. They come from my imagination and from a rekindling of my childhood love for drawing pretty girls. They were motivated by my promise to draw for the little girl who so admired my drawings. The backgrounds were filled in later to make each picture more interesting to colour and that was even more challenging than drawing the girls.