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The final one from near Sihanoukville, Cambodia. I loved this little fishing village, and I painted several views here. This day, I had packed a lunch, which I left in the bag on the ground, and a bunch of little kids came by and quickly started rifling through all my things and grabbed my food. They also grabbed some paints and brushes, which were basically irreplaceable, in that place, (I would’ve had to go back to Bangkok or Saigon). I managed to get the art supplies back, but the food was a loss. I yelled at them, and insisted that they share it equally. I’m sure they were hungrier than this rich westerner. Because it’s funny, my financial position is quite modest where I live, but in Southeast Asia I was wealthy. I probably spent $1000 in the month I was in Cambodia, which was literally 15 or 20 times the average monthly wage of most Cambodians. I know this because while I was there there was a strike at the Old Navy clothing manufacturing plant. I remember that they were agitating for a raise from about $45 a month to $55 a month. Mind you, it’s possible as a native to survive on that kind of money, but it’s not very much, still. Westerners always pay much, much more in a place like that. The usual price of my hotels was between five and $10 a night, meals $2 or $3. Probably more expensive now. 5 x 9” or 13 x 23 cm., Oil.#pleinairpainting #cambodia #fishingboat #indianocean #stolenlunches

Otres Beach, Cambodia again. a beautiful beach where I spent a long week in 2010 on my four month southeast Asia painting trip. I was standing on the other side of a little river, and several times during that day a small herd of cows went back-and-forth looking for their grazing, bells jingling. I had never seen a cow on a beach before! From what I understand, and judging from the satellite view maps I looked at, it looks like this beach has been pretty much destroyed as a place of beauty. It looks like a construction zone. Oh well, that’s what we do, as a species, isn’t it? Muck things up! The comments I read on tripadvisor blame the Chinese, the new boogie men of the world. 5 x 8”, oil on prepared card stock. #pleinairpainting #cambodia #cow #beach #travelart

More Cambodia. I’m not sure where exactly this was painted. I think it was near Sihnoukville and they just called it Otres town, But it might’ve been Nong Khiaw, Laos. Probably a good idea to write the location on the back of a painting when one travels! But a really nice thing happened while I was painting this. This was just a dusty little road that I happened to wander down and decided to paint. Certainly the people in that little town had never seen anyone painting plein air. And some nice cambodian man came up to me and gave me a soda, that he had purchased for me. Ice cold on a very hot day, and in beginners English, thanked me for painting their town. I wish I could just give it to them, maybe they would put it in their town office. 5 x 8“, oil on prepared card stock. #pleinairpainting #cambodia#redearth #laos

Cambodia again. This is one of the huts I stayed in at Otres beach , and that’s the Indian ocean! This wonderful establishment, called Shanti-Shanti, was a small restaurant and a few beach hut’s run by some French hippies, Sophie and Matthew. They had tent like walls that you would roll down at night and comfortable mattreses. It was basically glamping, a word I don’t think even existed then. Sophie made terrific quiches and coffee, and for the week I spent here I would wake up, and wander into the bathwater temperature ocean, and take a morning swim and contemplate the subfreezing weather in Chicago, where I lived at that time. Then I would wander over to the restaurant and Sophie would serve me up a delicious French breakfast, and I would think about where I was going to go paint that day. It was actually probably the most pleasant week of the whole trip. Sadly, this establishment no longer exists because Otres Beach was developed in the last 10 years. The couple who ran this place, I think, went down to somewhere in Malaysia to open up a new establishment. I donated a few dollars to them when they were fundraising for it couple years ago. I’m really glad I got to enjoy it pre-development. Like there aren’t enough beautiful beaches with hotels and casinos on them in the world? Painted on my 2010 four month painting trip to Southeast Asia.#pleinairpainting #beachhuts #cambodia #glamping

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