It was more than 10 hours flights from Los Angeles to Schiphol and another 2 hours to reach Budapest. It’s tough to fly more than 5 hours. I never enjoy it.

This time, I was in a big hurry and things were messed up that I forgot to bring books nor movies to kill my flying time. Luckily I had a van Gogh’s pocket box with me. This is a gift from my friend in Enschede. The box consists of a set of quality water colors and postcard size papers. You just need some water then everything is set to make sketches.

So, I used a cup of water I got from KLM flight attendant to sketch. The first sketch I made (since this kit is called van Gogh’s pocket box) was inspired by van Gogh, so it was entitled ‘Sunflower’.

The second was made while I had my meal. So, it was a ‘flight meal’ and the third, I don’t know why, was the sketch of London’s parliament building with the Big Ben and the bridge.

I used only one cup for mixing all colors, so the water quickly became browny. It was ok, didn’t do any harm on my sketch. Meanwhile, while I was drawing, I took a cup of tea offered by a flight attendant and started drinking it. Later I was amazed to find out that the watercolor cup had much less water and the tea cup had some blue and yellow color. It took me sometime to realize that I had drunk from the watercolor cup and stirred my brush in the tea!

Too late…. I got van Gogh’s in my throat and tea on my sketches! Guess that makes me sounds like a real artist… hehe.