Skulls, sand, and Garuda – Art from Cambodia

July 30, 2009 · by Todd · in Cambodia, Travel Art

I knew that I would find inspiration for artwork in the temples of Angkor, and I was not disappointed. Fantastic jungle trees twist around intricately carved ancient temples, slowly crushing them. Lauren and I spent three days biking around the archaeological park, and then I went back for one more day just to draw.

A Tangle of Trees in Ta Prohm, Cambodia
SOLD, mixed media on paper, 8″ x 10″

Angkor wasn’t the only place in Cambodia that got me wagging my markers. Scroll down to see drawings from a relaxing (if odd) stay on Otres Beach, and from Phnom Penh and the nearby sites of the Killing Fields and S-21, where so much tragedy occurred.

From the Killing Fields, Cambodia (2005), based on a photo by Joshua Berman, included in his his blog post about the Killing Fields
$15, marker and pencil on paper, 5″ x 7″

Skulls in the Killing Fields (2009)
$15, marker on paper, 3.5″ x 5″

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