Inside the temple - watercolour study with gold leaf

I loved the patterned floor, decorated walls, brightly coloured fabrics and the sunlit doorway - where I have applied some gold leaf.

Travel sketches from my recent trip to the Far East

First posting of 2014

 

 

 

 

Quick pen sketches from a small temple building at a Cambodian Monastery. Watercolour added later.   It was part of a small, quiet temple.   There was no-one in it when I looked inside.  Leaves blew into the open doorway adding to its deserted feeling.   The outside of the building was pale and worn with green shuttered windows.   Inside was a patterned, tiled floor and pillars and vividly decorated walls.  

When I went outside again, I could see a monk relaxing in a hammock.

For more on my trip see my travel blog 'Travels with my father'  http://onseaonland.blogspot.com