My old students in Cambodia asked for some drawings of the Bayon to print on a T-shirt, so that got me looking through my old sketchbooks. Here are the Bayon drawings I found.
Bayon heads – May 1998
Bayon to music – May-1997
I was lucky enough to spend 7 years living and working in Cambodia. For holidays I used to travel up to Siem Reap and spend a whole week just hanging about the temples and drawing. My drawings were bolder and I used less ink back then…inspiration for changing for what I do now. I’ll be posting a few more from Cambodia and other times in batches….
Like you, I too began sketching in the early 90s. You have built up an interesting website. Do you have an ‘about‘ page?
Hmmm thought I did but probably isn’t much on it!
Looks like I need to do some work on my site! Can’t find the home page myself…though I did add one when I started it
I’m certain it would be quite an enriched page given all the documented artwork and countries you’ve been to over the years. I look forward to reading it, Jonathan!
Haha. Thanks for the encouragement…I’ll get round to it
Beautiful! The first double page is awesome!!! You must have a huge bookshelf with your sketchbooks, Jonathan! What a treasure! When did you start with the dated drawings?
Thanks Carsten. Yes I have many many sketchbooks. I began sketching like this in early 1990s. The every day sketches in my blog I began two years ago
I love how you’ve handled those faces
Thanks. It was a Ling time ago