Urban Art Association

Vietnam / Cambodia, by Dan Kitchener on May 23, 2016 5:40:34 GMT 1, Just returned from an amazing trip across Vietnam, and Cambodia and fired up with huge amount of inspiration for new work on canvas and walls, so here's some of the sketches and my first speed painting!

Sketching in Angkor Thom / Siem Reap - Cambodia



sketching in Hue - Vietnam



Sketching 100's of metres underground in the worlds largest cave, Han Son Doong in Vietnam. We trekked through 40 degree dense jungles and many rivers over 65km in 4 days to spend 4 nights within the caves themselves as they are so vast. With a 9km main passage deep in the bowels of the earth. More people have been into space than have been in these caves! Only around 800 have visited them since discovery a few years back. Steep, slippery roped descent 80metres from the entrance and then scrambling for hours down deeper over huge boulder fields only lit by head torches to reach camp within the cathedral like caverns. Fast flowing rivers, huge chasms and pitch black drops, ghostly shadows from torchbearer light and ceilings so high you could fit skyscrapers in. The most epic and life changing experience ever. I was sketching at every opportunity, a true step back in time 400 million years to this cut off world. Amazing. Here i am sketching a 70m high stalactite at camp 2. 





'Distant Futures' - Speed painting / freehand digital painting - no image or photo manipulation, pure life drawing study as always! 

Just returned from an amazing trip across Vietnam, and Cambodia and fired up with huge amount of inspiration for new work on canvas and walls, so here's some of the sketches and my first speed painting!

Sketching in Angkor Thom / Siem Reap - Cambodia



sketching in Hue - Vietnam



Sketching 100's of metres underground in the worlds largest cave, Han Son Doong in Vietnam. We trekked through 40 degree dense jungles and many rivers over 65km in 4 days to spend 4 nights within the caves themselves as they are so vast. With a 9km main passage deep in the bowels of the earth. More people have been into space than have been in these caves! Only around 800 have visited them since discovery a few years back. Steep, slippery roped descent 80metres from the entrance and then scrambling for hours down deeper over huge boulder fields only lit by head torches to reach camp within the cathedral like caverns. Fast flowing rivers, huge chasms and pitch black drops, ghostly shadows from torchbearer light and ceilings so high you could fit skyscrapers in. The most epic and life changing experience ever. I was sketching at every opportunity, a true step back in time 400 million years to this cut off world. Amazing. Here i am sketching a 70m high stalactite at camp 2. 





'Distant Futures' - Speed painting / freehand digital painting - no image or photo manipulation, pure life drawing study as always!