The Young Locals
20"x 27.5"
Watercolor on Arches
In the winter of 2008, I was fortunate enough to travel to the temples of Angkor Wat located near Siem Reap, Camboda. Angkor Wat was built in the 12th century and is the largest Hindu temple complex in the world. One day while on a tour of the Bayon Temple, I was greeted by a group of three local boys who said they would be my tour guides and show me the temple where the movie Tomb Raider was filmed in exchange for some American coins. They led me down a faint path through the jungle and along the way we crawled through a ruin of an old temple where the sun shined through a small window illuminating the space. Inspired by the unique shadow pattern created by the fragmented light, I asked the boys if I could take a photo of them which became the reference for this painting.
2 comments:
Nice painting and great story. I love how painting things we know becomes so much more personal and how it shows in the work.
Wow, great stuff Dan! Really really amazing. Enjoy RRG and hopefully see you at PC or a veggie dinner sometime soon!
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