Watercolour Landscapes by Thai Artist Direk Kingnok

Hi ya! How's it going today. Pull up a mug and enjoy a Thai Cafe Buran (traditional, sweet, dark coffee, strained through a contraption that looks more like a sock than anything). Never mind...it adds to the flavour. Accompany it with a banana muffin, why don't'cha? 

A few weeks ago, I bought a copy of Watercolor Artist - one of my longtime favourite mags. At first, I didn't even realize that the cover (shown below) was a painting of Bangkok. I just loved the colours, style and hustle and bustle of the scene. It was only when I got to the article on Direk Kingnok that I realized the subject was Chinatown in Bangkok. Anyway...read on while you sip your cafe buran and munch on your muffin.

Direk Kingnok is moved to paint by the beauty that surrounds him, and he finds it everywhere. Fresh off a trip to Turkey for the International Watercolor Society’s International Watercolor Biennial, the Khon Kaen, Thailand, artist is flooded with inspiration. 

Yet, while he could choose to paint any exotic or extravagant view from his recent travels, the scenes he finds most intriguing for his watercolor paintings are the places and people he encounters every day—Bangkok at sunset, fishermen in Vietnam, rush hour traffic, a street market bursting at the seams. “Common people in common places,” he says, are the fuel to his creative passion.

In the October 2014 issue of Watercolor Magazine, Direk shares the secrets to bringing busy street scenes to life in luminous, flowing watercolors. He truly captures the essence of Thailand in his paintings. The cover is a delightful capturing of the bustle of Bangkok - people, buses, cars, street vendors, street banners and signs. Marvellous!

Want to see more of his amazing watercolours? Go to http://images.google.com and search for "direk kingnok artist"

See ya, eh!

Bob