One of the most popular Thai foods in Damnern Saduak Floating Market is "gluey tord" which means fried bananas in English. Thai people are well familiar with gluey tord and usually enjoy them as a snack. The finished fried bananas taste delicious, crispy outside but tender inside.Most vendors shout loudly in Thai when their boats came close to you, "gluey tord mar laew jar", or fried banana is coming! They keep repeating the same phrase over and over to draw attention.

In the painting, the center of interest is the middle boat. This particular boat had two vendors, one working as the cook while the other steered the boat. The cook's action especially appealed to me as being suitable for a painting. She was facing the bank and shouting to draw the customers' attention. At the same moment, one of her hands was holding a bowl of the coating, while the other hand was dipping a piece of banana into the mixed ingredients.

I painted her hair with Payne's gray, which I also used tinted for painting the shirt as well. Cerulean blue was used for the bowl in her left hand, with a few touches of cadmium red and viridian green for the ornaments on the pan placed near her knee.

The frying pan filled with hot palm oil was in front of her with two pieces of banana sizzling in it. The pan sat on an old homemade stove followed by a strainer, the other vendor, with a gas tank and a hat at the end. All of them were painted in more detail especially the vendor's shirt, painted with darker Prussian blue, who sat in front of the gas tank, to push them back and provide contrasts between them. I painted the boat with a mixture of burnt sienna and a slight bit of Payne's gray, while leaving some white paper space for the hanging rags at one side of the boat. Then I added a few touches of Payne's gray to depict the folds and shadows of the rags.

I painted some wavy strokes for the canal water around the boat to get a sense of deepness and provide more contrast to the boats that are the focus of this painting.