I decided to make a quick self-portrait using pencil and charcoal and maybe use it as my profile photo.

The Gore iHotel is within walking distance to the Royal Albert Hall. Traditional British design tastefullly done and very well kept. The bar on the ground floor was made famous by the Rolling Stones where they launched an album. 

I've created some necessities: double sided canvas paper holder & canvas carrier protectors. Using corrugated plastic boards, I cut 2 thin strips of it and used double-sided tape to stick on both sides. I've used them during my painting holiday in Myanmar. Latest plein...

In December, my Philippine based Austrian friend Stefan Lowenstein and his girlfriend Nikko, came to Bangkok for work then leisure. He took me around instead, jajajajaa. I just did a little bit of Thai-speak from time to time...as Stefan said a "semi-translator" There...

Organized by Elsie Evans of Attic Studios, Bangkok. The trip was joined by Elsie Evans, Janet Shute Taylor, Caroline Austin & myself.  Six days of plein air painting! two, 2.5 hour sessions a day on 2 different locations.

Finished oil painting of Shanghai peach blossoms done in the rain, Feb 2014. Painting in the rain with Soltek easel and Easyl Umbrella....no plein air artist should be without! (Sold to Alex Syfu, Manila, Philippines)

Got my Soltek easel...I call it the "Ferrari" of all easels because setting and packing it up so fast compared to the traditional wooden easel. 

Went out on a rainy 9c afternoon in the park across where my husband & I live...not too many onlookers on a dreary February d...