A Salubrious Venue

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Sounds like you really suffered for your art and what a super result painted so quickly and all the better for it.

Posted by Michael Edwards on Fri 20 Jun 14:25:17

Beautiful watercolour Seok!

Posted by Louise Naimian on Fri 20 Jun 14:38:08

Wow, a painting with a story. I agree with Michael, you really have suffered. Beautiful subject, composition and a wonderful variation of greens (always my weakest point). Stunning work and I love to read about your travelling to so many different places all over the world!

Posted by Mia Ketels on Fri 20 Jun 14:59:30

Super, quickly painted watercolour, I love the light tree surrounded by the dark conifers. Hotels that were formerly soviet run still have not really caught on with the idea of the customer always being right, have they?

Posted by Stephen Slater on Fri 20 Jun 15:33:37

You do see the world in most wonderful places Seok! Not so exciting about the food but you survived and painted this beautiful watercolour. In 45 minutes!!!! Incredible! Your pine trees are superb!

Posted by Satu Vartiainen on Fri 20 Jun 16:44:46

Fantastic waercolour, lovely composition Seok

Posted by Petra Palmeri on Fri 20 Jun 17:02:01

Your paintings are an education Seok for those of us who aren't so well travelled! My eldest son is living and working in Sofia, Bulgaria at the moment. Whilst he and his family are enjoying a very good expat lifestyle we are well aware of the legacy of communism when we visit. Thank you so much for taking the trouble to look and comment on my recent postings.

Posted by Christine Davies on Fri 20 Jun 18:22:28

This is lovely Seok, and that negative tree on the left is marvellous.

Posted by Frank Bingley on Fri 20 Jun 19:52:43

Great painting....amazing in what you achieve in so little time. I seem to take forever! Well done you!

Posted by Stephen Michael Law on Fri 20 Jun 20:14:08

Beautifully done Seok, especially so in the limited time scale. The trees are super!

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Fri 20 Jun 22:12:55

45 mins!! Now you're showing off, lol! I am amazed that anyone could produce such an accomplished and finished work like this in such a short space of time and it is testament to your talent that you can do this with ease. The little gazebo is beautiful and the trees.... ah, the trees - they are superb.

Posted by Thea Cable on Fri 20 Jun 23:22:07

You have certainly made the most of your time travel. Beautifully done and so much better than just taking a photograph.

Posted by Pat Harrison on Sat 21 Jun 06:22:19

I like your commentary - which made me snort into my gin and tonic - almost as much as I like the painting: I shall avoid that travel agent!

Posted by Robert Jones, NAPA on Sat 21 Jun 18:11:33

Lovely plein air

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Sun 22 Jun 15:57:44

Beautifully painted as always. Lovely greens.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Sun 22 Jun 17:09:57

Thanks so very much, everyone!

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Mon 23 Jun 13:36:37

Really smashing Seok, just a bit mystifed about the pile of something in the right foregrond - logs? Love your notes and the travelogue

Posted by Derek Snowdon on Tue 25 Nov 13:15:34

Hang on Studio Wall

13/04/2015

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A little gazebo surrounded by conifers on the grounds of the Okzhetpes Hotel in Borovoe National Park, Kazakhstan. The hotel was a former sanitarium in the Soviet era, used to treat patients with tuberculosis as it was believed that the aroma of the pines and other conifers was conducive to healing. The hotel was pretty dated and the food tasted like it came from a Soviet gulag (all courtesy of a dreadful Singapore travel agent which someone in our travel group used and which I would recommend only on pain of a slow and tortuous death). The only thing to commend the place was the pristinely beautiful surroundings, so I tried to make the best of it. Painted in about 45 minutes, en plein air.

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