Jennifer Lawson

These Balinese roosters get going very early in the morning (sehari pagi-pagi). They crow all day long along with cooing doves, croaking toa...

We eat out a lot. Food is fairly inexpensive here and quite delicious, as long as I can manage the amount of chillis and sambal in the dishe...

Our only holiday decoration was this bouquet of flowers I clipped from our tropical garden and stuck in a water glass. Quite beautiful sitti...

We ventured to Canggu for a late afternoon and most delicious Balinese meal with Detlev and 25 of his friends, two German Sheppards and a fe...

Looking at the pool and pavilion from the open-air great room. Just beyond are rice fields and the beach.

At the far end of the beach path, there is a grouping of small warungs (food stalls). They are thatched roof, open-air, bamboo buildings wit...

A few sketches from Saturday afternoon life drawing. It was so humid that tiny droplets of sweat were dripping onto my sketch paper. I was a...

We spent a day and a half in Jakarta. It was hot, humid, smoggy and crowded. I could hardly wait to get back home to Bali. I was not at all ...

We had dinner at a beach cafe last night—fresh fish grilled over coconut husks. When we looked up at this streetlight there was a swarm of s...

Our feral bobtail cat stops by every other day for a snack. The menu doesn't change much—sardines or Friskies. However, yesterday he spe...

I bought some oatmeal soap a while back to keep in a dish by the sink. About a week ago we saw a few teeth marks in the bar. Thinking whoeve...

I jumped on the scooter and spent the morning in town. Sketched quickly and discreetly at the Cafe Batu-Jimbar while enjoying a Bali Kopi. Y...

The Balinese use every part of the coconut tree. The husks are used for coir mats and ropes, the inner layer is used for buttons and a lot f...

I have seen Made many times on my beach walks. I was surprised when he came and sat for us in life drawing on Saturday. He spoke no English ...

An expat artist I met asked if I had seen any Bali dogs dressed up or painted. Thinking back, I actually had seen a dog wearing a t-shirt, ...

I found this paper at Hardy's called Kertas Pembungkus Makanan which means wrapping paper for food. I have noticed many people on the be...

This was not easy and thank god for my new kacamata (eyeglasses). Now this was multitasking—sketching in very low light, trying to capture t...

The salsa dancing contest was in a bar at a big hotel on the beach in Sanur. It was very low light so the woman at the table next to us had ...

This is Mamis and her daughter Melody. Mamis is an amazing seamstress. She and her husband have a shop across the street from our villa and ...

This is my best friend Jerry. It is his seafood business that has taken us from Portland, Maine to the island of Bali. It is his birthday to...