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  • Finally uploaded my favourite sketches from my Malaysia trip joshnicholas.com/scribbles

    → 8:42 AM, Jul 19
  • (Probably) the final painting of the trip. Number 28. Kuala Lumpur skyline from the hotel. Sky looking a bit ominous.

    Kuala Lumpur skyline closeup
    → 6:19 PM, Jul 3
  • Bit of a wait for the plane

    Quick watercolour scribble of a family waiting in the airport
    → 12:58 PM, Jul 2
  • Langkawi is so beautiful and green I’m almost out of yellow watercolour paint.

    → 4:32 PM, Jul 1
  • Two tells that this hotel was built by Europeans:

    1. no sinks in the restaurant
    2. awnings don’t extend far enough for monsoonal downpours
    → 3:25 PM, Jul 1
  • Escaped across the bay to a new hotel

    Watercolour of a bay in Langkawi, Malaysia
    → 1:33 PM, Jul 1
  • Started pouring so couldn’t quite finish it :(

    Watercolour of Malaysian resort
    → 1:11 PM, Jun 28
  • For some reason beers are less expensive than coconuts at this resort (even though I am currently sitting under a tree with many coconuts growing on it)… so I don’t really see that I have a choice.

    → 4:15 PM, Jun 26
  • First morning at the resort

    Watercolour of kilos and an umbrella surrounded by dwarf coconuts
    → 11:36 AM, Jun 26
  • Coffee truck! Everything was double shots 😄

    Watercolour of a coffee truck at Penang markets
    → 2:04 PM, Jun 24
  • TIL Hansel and Gretel might not have been written if Norman Borlaug had been born earlier

    → 12:32 PM, Jun 23
  • A-plus sign game

    → 12:27 PM, Jun 23
  • My other morning scribble. Didn’t do the people’s proportions too well

    Watercolour of people eating breakfast in Penang
    → 2:27 PM, Jun 22
  • Very very sunny in Penang today

    Watercolour painting of Penang town hall
    → 12:25 PM, Jun 22
  • First job at breakfast every morning is to get two of each tiny drink to approximate a normal drink

    → 9:23 AM, Jun 21
  • It’s that kind of heat

    → 10:05 PM, Jun 20
  • Going to miss the coffee shops when I go home

    Watercolour of a coffee shop in Penang
    → 1:34 PM, Jun 20
  • Very hard to draw straight lines when you have to stand and draw/paint

    Watercolour painting of Georgetown dispensary in Penang
    → 10:33 AM, Jun 20
  • Still not quite getting enough light in these paintings

    Painting of a shop front in Penang
    → 12:34 PM, Jun 19
  • Had to retreat inside from the heat this morning

    Very bad watercolour of an intersection in Penang, Malaysia &10;
    → 11:09 AM, Jun 19
  • TIL McDonalds has a VIP program in Malaysia. Kept seeing these stickers on cars but finally got close to one

    A McDonalds vip car windscreen sticker
    → 11:17 AM, Jun 17
  • Last day in Ipoh for us

    Painting of an alleyway in Ipoh
    → 1:26 PM, Jun 15
  • The Thinker™

    → 1:43 PM, Jun 14
  • Wasn’t able to quite grasp the scale of the lovely train station here

    → 9:03 PM, Jun 13
  • Some lovely old buildings in Ipoh

    Old colonial building in Ipoh
    → 2:00 PM, Jun 13
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