May 1, 2024

Sketching in Thailand

Artist Thainlin Tay shares his supply list and photos from a recent trip!

By The Art Toolkit Team

A sketchbook lays clipped open with a pen sketch of a temple on a hill with the title Wat Saket and an open pocket palette beside it.

We featured Thainlin Tay and his urban sketches last year, and are excited to have him join us for a live demo this spring to share about travel sketching and to reflect on a recent trip to Bangkok, Thailand.

About Thainlin Tay

A man sits on a bench in a brick court yard filled with plants, sketching.
Thainlin sketches on a bench.
A close-up of a sketch of a statue and various sketched desserts, labeled coconut juice, mango sticky rice, and coconut pancakes with a palette barely visible in the background.
Desserts from Sook Siam in Bangkok by Thainlin.

Thainlin Tay lives on the tropical island of Singapore. As an avid urban sketcher and artist, he enjoys visiting the city’s older historical areas to sketch buildings and places of worship that harken back to when Singapore was a trading port for the old British Empire. His goal is to capture these architectural gems to represent a part of the new and old city with his artistic input.

Vacations and trips are great times to take a few minutes and sketch what you see in a place you aren’t familiar with. Earlier this year, Thainlin and his wife took a trip to Bangkok, Thailand, and he wanted to share his sketches with us! 

Views from the Trip

A sketchbook lays clipped open with a pen sketch of a temple on a hill with the title Wat Saket and an open pocket palette beside it.
Wat Saket (Bangkok’s Golden Mount Temple) by Thainlin.
A photograph of a temple on a hill in white with gold accents.
Wat Saket
A busy street filled with cars, people, and signs in Chinese.
Busy streets in Chinatown.
A busy street filled with people and vendors with colorful umbrellas and lots of power lines.
Narrow streets full of pedestrians and vendors in Chinatown.
An open sketchbook showing a pens ketch of a train in a station with the train in the background.
Thainlin’s sketch of locomotive 278 in Bangkok.
An open sketchbook of a pen sketch of a temple, pictured in the background.
Wat Pho Temple sketch by Thainlin.
An open sketchbook of a pen sketch of a market with trees and buildings.
Chatuchak weekend market sketch by Thainlin.
An open sketchbook of a market sketch held up with the market in the background.
Sketching on location!

Thainlin carved out two to three hours for himself a couple of times on the trip but would also sketch in the pockets of time while waiting or while his wife was enjoying shopping.

Thainlin’s Supplies

To hear more about Thainlin’s sketching process, be sure to join us for our live demo on May 7th at 5pm! You can see his art on Instagram and on YouTube.

All photos courtesy of Thainlin Tay.
An artist sites on a rock, dipping a paintbrush in a Pocket Palette.

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