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Bali Connection

It was a very different vacation whereby we followed my elder son's family staying in the Villa most of the time, dinning in with all the options, BBQ, Balinese night, floating breakfast, privagt beach, swimming, eating, watiching TV, reading and doodling. I was hoping to see the Bali I had not seen for so many years may be with a cultural night, day trip to Ubud etc etc.

So when we two older folks took the villa transport to a local shopping mall, the driver brought us to Bali Connection which was obviously meant for tourists! I made do and did a sketch of the temple inside the mall under the big tree although the weather was really hot and humid.

Bali Sketches

I am on family vacation so can only do sketches within the hotel vicinity. It was a scotching hot day and the staff was very helpful to check on me once a while. Anyway I was the only one at the public pool since every villas had its own private pool to chill.

Bali Trip

We had a family vacation in Bali with my elder son's family at Amarterra. We arrived on Sunday 2pm and it was the eve of Nyepi which was a day of silence, fasting and meditation for the Balinese. So there was a huge traffic jam but it was good so we could see all the Ogoh Ogoh Parade peparation literally along the roadside.

It was a vacation with just swmimming, idling, reading, doodling, eating and sleeping inside the villa. My husband and I managed to take the hotel car to the near-by retail compound called Bali Collection which was very obviously targetting at global and domestic tourist. Not a complaint as it was truly a relaxing vacation even under the scotching hot and very humid weather.

This was also my last ink doodle in the Nude Sketchbook which I started inking again last Monday. Total 8 days of ink doodling.

You can read more about Nyepi here and Ogoh-Ogoh here

Quick Sketch on the Plane

I was on a family vacation and did not feel like sketching but somehow before landing, I just did one quick sketch on my A5 muji notebook with my Signo Uni-ball gel pen I brought along.

We are off to BALI

We are off to Bali from 10 to 15 March with our son, daughter-in-law and two adorable granddaughters who are having a one-week school vacation.

We arrived in Bali around 2pm and there was a big traffic jam from the airport to the hotel. It was a surprise to see Ogoh-Ogoh parade in preparation by the roadside. We could see several big sculptures of various monsters and creatures. Ogoh-Ogoh parade happend at the eve of Nyepi, the day of silence for the Balinese.

Bali trip day four

Last page of the long sketchbook. Final day of the trip, we left the hotel pool and visited Tanah Lot in the afternoon and Kuta shopping belt at night.

Bali trip day two and three

Poolside sketch on day 2 on top and day 3 below.

Bali trip day one

Day one of Bali trip, it took us 2 hours and 45 mins to arrive in Bali, did a sketch on the plane.

very long sketches

Can you see these three are joined? I started the first page of the long Moleskine Japanese sketchbook on the last day of the trip in Madrid and continued the sketches for my recent Bali trip over the last long weekend from 7 to 11 Aug, 2013.

Bali trip after tsunami

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On this boxing day; also 4 years after the terrible tsunami swept across Nias island and Aceh province of Indonesia on this day, I will like to post this quick drawing I did for the bali trip to remind us how beautiful Indonesia is. In a time when all we can see around us are more bad than good news, here is my personal wish for peace to a new 2009.

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