Sketch crawl..for the uninitiated, is this phenomenon started by Enrico Casarosa, an sketchboard artist at Pixar. In one of my older posts I had mentioned about this sketching marathon, and now I hope I get to be a more active participant.For those interested about the origins of this event, read here.
Last Friday evening I had roamed all over Siam Paragon, one of the local shopping malls and raided this place called "Read and Write". This extremely helpfull floor assistant had helped me pick out cheaper but damn good quality Folio and a raphael mini water colour box.
The next saturday morning, inspite of planning a day trip to the city I ended up spending a few extra hours in bed, trying to recover from something I had no clue about.To add to the pain, my digital camera stopped working.It just wouldnt respond to anything that I would do.There were these crazy red lines across the LCD which tore my heart.It has been only 3 years since I have bought it. I sat near the window trying to convince myself to get up and go out for wa walk and jotted down the birds eye view of the Hotels entrance from my window...and watched the tour bus, which otherwise would have had an excited me in it, leave. :(
Later in the day, I picked up some maps and decided to venture out on my own.I took a 'tuk-tuk' and asked the driver to take me to the Grand Palace . Soon, the extreme humidity and heat took its toll and I had to take shelter near a temple dedicated to budhdha, called 'The Emerald Budhdha'.
Unlike what I had expected, no one registered any curiosity at the sight of me with my sketchbook, eaves-dropping the guided tour narattions and sketching everytime id get tired.
Finally I decided to call it quits.Too much of grandios is not exactly entertaining.After a point the lavish castle and the gold roofs began getting on my nerves.
As a reward for my brave attempt ( :) ) the crawl ended with a nice sprawled out buffet watching the boats sail by.Tremendously relaxing, with Nityisa, a tiny waitress who had gotten used to me insisting on sitting on the same table near the pier every time I came down for breakfast, refilling cups of warm fragrant tea.Tea, incidently, is an excellent soother of confused tummies that have been treated to too many alien gastronomic delights.
