More to the point - I've never posted my sketches of Bali as a series!
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| The Japanese waiting for a plane Ary's Warung, Ubud, Bali 5 May 1997 pencil in Daler Rowney hardback black sketchbook copyright Katherine Tyrrell |
This was morning and lunch on the last day.
5th May 1997 Taxi down to masseur (Metari). Bought shirt for J and T shirt for me. Changed money. Thai calamari salad, lemon grass tea and white cocolate cheescake at Ary's Warung. Sketched interior.Venice has Harry's Bar and Ubud in Bali has Ary's Warung.
Looking at what it's like today, I'm rather glad I visited it back in the 90s before it introduced chrome and the starched linen! It looks as it's changed a lot.
Back then it was cane, cane and rattan on the verandah which contrasted with the lush greens of vegetation outside where I sat, watching the world go by. There was a constant stream of customers - although some waited rather longer than others such as the Japanese couple in the centre of this sketch who were obviously killing time before the journey to the airport.
This is what I wrote when I first posted on Making A Mark about this place
I sat in Ary's Warung on the main street in Ubud in Bali and started to draw some people while I had a pot of their lemon grass and ginger tea. And it just turned into one of those sketches where you order another pot of tea and then lunch as your sketch keeps creeping across the page until every last bit is filled. People came and went - which was a bit of a challenge - and the Japanese couple with their suitcases that I had started sketching originally finally left for the airport to catch their flight. 27 April 2006
What I do remember - across the years - is the lemon grass tea. I think it had a sliver of ginger in it as well. When I think of Bali now I think of the lemon grass tea - and I've never been made able to make it the way I had it there. Must be something to do with the freshness of the lemon grass....
I'll see if I can get my sketches about Bali posted before I get my new post-operative glasses at the beginning of next month - at which time sketching can return to normal.
Address: Ary's Warung, Jl. Raya Ubud Kedewatan, Ubud, Gianyar, Bali 80571, Indonesia
Contemporary Reviews of Ary's Warung on: Trip Adviser | Lonely Planet | Frommers.
You can see other sketches from this particular travel sketchbook on my website at:
You can also see other sketches from different places in the Travels with a Sketchbook galleries on my website "Pastels and Pencils".
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