It’s so hot! It’s summer 😑 Too early 😢

After church, my girls and I decided to have early dinner at the local Thai restaurant. We had the staple street food, not the ones we order in restaurants in Bangkok that required reservation.

It’s not as spicy as normal—it’s adapted to local palette but they left you options like if you want your Pad Kra Pao to be spicy, you have the red bird’s eye chili on the side and it’s up to you to mash it with the Thai holy basil mixture. Normally, you mix garlic, chilis, and shallots, make a paste by using mortar and pestle. In this case, the ground beef was stir-fried with the garlic-shallot combo (as you normally do with Southeast Asian cooking) and not as a paste. I asked to take home the dipping sauce for the chicken as I could use it for pork chops the next day.

Let me rest for a bit for my gouache trial tonight.

I now know why animators and illustrators use gouache for their art. Its opacity allows elements to pop out.

I want a studio so I could spread out. It’s hard to paint with my huge gouache tray eating too much table real estate; I had to hold my ceramic plate (as mixing plate) the entire time I was painting. It gets tiring.