If there’s one thing I really hate to draw and paint … it’s landscapes. I feel like I can go crazy if I were to draw an outdoor scene. Whenever I look at a photo of a scenery, my brain goes into overload. My eyes cannot handle the various textures and details. I have yet able to extract simple, basic shapes from sceneries because I feel compelled to paint every single foliage, every single pebble, every single crevice on a rock. It’s insane!
Anyway, during recent weeks, I have been hiking on the trails of Lambir National Park. I thought, why not overcome my aversion to drawing landscapes, by attempting a sketch?
'Inoue Trail', 6" x 9" Pen & Watercolor on Canson Montval cold-pressed paper.
Inoue is one of the trails in the national park, which, when combined together with the popular Latak trail forms a 4km loop. The above sketch is based on a photo I had taken on a misty morning, when the sun shined through the foliage and the rays filtered through the mist.
I had used Winsor Green (Y/S), Hansa Yellow Light, Quinacridone Gold, Quinacridone Coral and Quinacridone Burnt Orange (all colors from Daniel Smith except Winsor Green). I finished the sketch with detailing using Lamy Al-Star fountain pen filled with Noodler’s Eternal Brown (the only waterproof brown fountain pen ink I know of).
Those circular plants that look like giant asterisks? They are called ‘fan palms’. Plenty of them in Lambir forest.
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