The Pyramids of Giza

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This is very colourful, sunny and atmospheric, Seok. Keep on posting your travel paintings, so we can imagine we are there too.

Posted by Mia Ketels on Mon 11 Jun 13:50:15

You've certainly feasted on the fodder Seok - Great painting

Posted by Michael Edwards on Mon 11 Jun 14:32:31

Lovely oil Seok, the sky is so dramatic !

Posted by Denise Butler on Mon 11 Jun 15:12:23

interesting and colourful. Great painting.

Posted by Pete Crowbaby on Mon 11 Jun 15:50:49

Wonderful vibrant colours Seok - what a traveller, you've been everywhere!

Posted by Pat Thompson on Mon 11 Jun 16:17:54

Very warm and inviting, lovely scenery Seok.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Mon 11 Jun 17:40:31

A wonderful painting Seok! Love the warm colours of the sand and the beautiful sky. You really have been everywhere!

Posted by Satu Vartiainen on Mon 11 Jun 18:42:24

This scene must be either a very old one, Seok, or around the back of the pyramids in the desert - there's no sign of the confusion of buildings which have crept up onto the Giza plateau in recent memory! Love the sky, Seok, and how very different this is to your recent one of Cuba! You are indeed a talented artist. And have you any plans to revisit Egypt? Maybe next winter - then we could paint together! Now there's a thought...

Posted by Jane Adams on Mon 11 Jun 19:02:42

Lovely painting, like the colours and the sky is just beautiful

Posted by Glennis Weston on Mon 11 Jun 20:12:03

Another interesting painting Seok, I've never been to Egypt but my father was there during WW11 and brought back a photo album which I used to love looking at as a child. This reminds me of those photos.

Posted by Christine Davies on Tue 12 Jun 09:21:08

Thank you very much, everyone! Jane, it's a fairly recent photo (about 2 years) - I edited out the ugly buildings, lol! Took quite a lot of artistic licence with this one - I was inspired by one of David Roberts' paintings of the Sphynx at Giza and used a sunset photo taken in Myanmar for the sky. I doubt I'll be back in Egypt in the near future but I'd certainly like to make another visit in a few years' time and would certainly entertain the thought of painting together!

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Tue 12 Jun 10:17:56

Very atmospheric Seok :)

Posted by Sarah Bottjer on Tue 12 Jun 21:26:21

Seok, thank you so much for taking the time to add some comments to my postings - you must have had to trawl through loads on the gallery to find them, and I really appreciate it. By the way, this one is still special!

Posted by Jane Adams on Thu 13 Sep 08:11:47

this is is amazingly beautiful, captured perfectly :-)

Posted by Rebecca Louise Saunders on Mon 24 Sep 10:03:13

Thanks Sarah, Jane and Rebecca!

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Mon 15 Oct 08:58:05

Hang on Studio Wall

31/03/2015

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Egypt was really not on my bucket list of travel destinations, and I went there only because some friends invited me to join them on their tour. It turned out to be a wonderful tour, and I was immensely inspired by its landscape and its people. I find myself constantly returning to my Egyptian photos for painting fodder.

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