Diaowocun farm house

We are at Diaowocun ( Diaowo village) in Pinggu District , 85km from Beijing city, China. A small farm house situated near HuangSongYu (Huang Song Reservoir) which was built in 1976. Diaowocun is a small village and about 50 families stay here, mainly growing fruits such as persimmon, apricot, plum, pear and hawthorn.

Mrs Shannon Bagel restaurant

Mrs Shannon Restaurant , famous for bagels, situated in Baixingzhuang. We have breakfast there mostly on Saturday where Darren & Almen will be there as well with their kids. I normally will order the cheese omelette with additional onion and mushroom. Leng will usually order the waffles and coffe get free refill. It wiill have to move to make way for developement and their new location will be in Roma Lakes, slightly far awat from us.

Raining Shanghai

It has been raining the whole day in Shanghai and all we could do was to watch online movie, taking naps, surf websites......these skteches are done in the dining room in my sister-in-law home in Puyuan Pudong Shanghai.

Trendy Cafe

 

Aroom Cafe in old downtown 120 Tai'an Lu , near Huashan Lu, Shanghai district. The owners, 2 couples, collects old things from their travellings and most of them are displayed as decorations in the cafe. Very cosy and coffee is quite good.
It was raining very heavily outside so we decided to stay a bit longer and makes some sketching.

 

Chicken

We brought some chicken for our studio few month ago. We start to rearrange our backyard garden for the chicken, order pack of dried corn bits, melon and cabbages. These chicken are called '贵妃鸡‘ in chinese, originates from England. We called them 'rock stars chicken' as most of them has this hairdo that resemble rock star singer. It has been 3 months and they have grow to be so pretty so I decide to paint them.
And we have a duck too.

Car Service Center

Went to a car service centre to check some noises in one of my tyre. The mechanic was test driving the car round and round trying to figure out what cause the noise. After 20 minutes, they decided to dismantle the tyre and its brakes to do a complete check. While waiting, I makes some sketches on the underside view of the car which very often we do not gets a chance to see....interesting details.

Old tea cups