Sketches of Yogya

I had a holiday with Nadya. We went to Yogyakarta, Central Java.

well, the trip itself wasn't too fascinating for common tourists, i supposed ... we didn't visit main tourist attraction. What we did was only shopping at Mirota Batik in Malioboro (my favorite place for shopping spree ! ), and walked for 45 minutes on foot - just to go to a goat soup deli.

I lived in Yogya during college. And the trip was my way to get back to the good old memories, more than 4 years ago. I'm sad that the sketches i made during my time there, wasn't survived - i lost them, somehow. And my trip couple days ago, wasn't long enough for me to capture places i want to re sketch. Phew.

nevermind, they say, in every dark clouds, there's always a silver lining (cmiiw).

so here it is :

batik painting lady @ Mirota Batik

first sketch, the lady who's painting batik.
Have you ever tried ? Batik painting (or in this term, pattern making using liquid candle, before goes on to colouring process) is a really relaxing activities. I used to join a short one day class of batik painting in Jakarta. Be it a handkerchief or scarf. I'm not an expert, unlike this Lady here, but surely, that is just so fun to do.
Oh and this is not a live sketch, Nadya took a pic of her, and asked me to make a sketch from it. So, thanks to her !

go on with this one here :

view from hostel room

we stayed at a cheap hostel, near tugu station. The facilities wasn't really ok, but we basically don't really care. they have a swing for two and a pretty nice little park full of trees in the inner court.
after making this sketch, i realized, i was never good at describing plants. haha.

a view at tugu station

Nadya insisted, that we must take trains. I don't mind, i always used trains as college student. so that's the sketch of view from our seat while waiting for our train to go back to Jakarta. It didn't captured the real ambiance, imho. But life must go on *sob* , i'll make better ones next time.

Nadya. on our trains to Jakarta

that's Nadya. sitting on our chair, on the way back to Jakarta. she was wearing a batik headband we bought at Mirota. She told me, she looked like the heroine on Ghibli's movie "Kiki Delivery Service" because of that headband.

So, that's all.

cheerio.