165. SKETCHING IN SEKINCHAN

Sekinchan is Chinese, I know this place by its Malay Sabak Bernam

Sekinchan is a rice bowl with a small fishing port. It's rustic and picturesque - about 1 1/2 hours drive from Kuala Lumpur

Location for the day's sketch

The family kindly accommodated us as we parked ourselves around the compound. At the end of the sketch, they were rewarded by sale of their coconuts, cut fresh from their trees which we poured down our throats as there was no straws!

I parked myself under the house, the most shady spot!
...and got to 'work' (or it appears) sketching the banana grove in front of me...
















 

This would make a nice sketch as the shadow on the ground makes for an interesting study

A study in solitude, in quietude - focused, meditative - even when one is engrossed in one's mobile - in the latter case, is one aware of one's surroundings? Somehow, onlookers respond differently to a painter and to one fixated on a phone

What most people see as reflections (if they notice at all), artists see that as an interesting study of colours, shapes, form

The light changes, shadows too, as the sun goes down...

Beautiful renditions by Chankerk who runs My Art Space in Istana Park, Singapore. I adore the studio as it's surrounded by the elements, there's a pool outside the studio and a lotus pond nearby with lots of greenery all around. The studio is rustic with order in its chaos - true artists find inspiration in that












The good luck charm tree to lure visitors, many come from out of town to check out this town and for the food...

The chillax corner where the workers hang out...

Driving into Kuala Selangor from Kuala Lumpur, I spotted this mosque with its 2 neighbours, a Hindu temple and a Tamil church next to them - and I went, hey! this town is cool. It's only in small tight communities that one encounters this unity in diversity. City slickers in Kuala Lumpur can learn from their small towns...

The noonday sun casts interesting shadows on this shapely incense burner...

Such concrete structures are a common sight upcountry - erected specially to attract swiflets to make their nests after which those nests are harvested for their spit to process into bird's nests delicacies. In some other areas, abandoned warehouses/factories are used for like purpose

at this rice packing factory there was a small museum with a few dusty exhibits, the one item that caught my eye was this woven raincoat made from some rope fibre, perhaps gunny sack - makes a good Halloween costume or a scary scarecrow in the padi field

Rescued this little guy from a playground - moved him to a tree before he gets squashed

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