Urban Sketchers Singapore : March 2011

30 March 2011

Sketchwalk Marina Bay (Mar 2011)

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Sketchwalk at Marina Bay Sands (Mar 2011)

24 March 2011

Ikea store on a weekday is not crowded but the cafeteria is full of working executives and retiring couples. The most popular dishes are the meatballs and chicken wings. My new lunch place, great for sketching.

23 March 2011

SKETCHWALK @ MARINA BAY BLVD - MARINA BAY WATERFRONT

Meet at Marina Bay City Gallery. A free standing building next to Promontory @ Marina Bay. Nearest MRT station is the new Downtown Station at Marina Bay Link Mall.

See map below for a clearer picture.

Show and tell will be back where we meet, then we decide where to go for lunch. Marina Bay Sands or the Link Mall for some good food. Please call Tia for directions if you get lost. Tel: 96968080.

Extra: Explore map of area here: Map here.
http://www.streetdirectory.com/asia_travel/travel/travel_id_52667/travel_site_1/?x=103.85407149269&y=1.2814551137504&l=13

21 March 2011

Ann Siang Road

I was missing sketchwalking, so I went to one of my favourite corners in Singapore and did this sketch.

20 March 2011

people at the clinic and cafe

Sketch on top: While waiting to collect my medication after consultation with the doctor at room number 10, I sketched the crowd inside the Marine Parade Polyclinic. People came and went very quickly so I had to do speed sketching. I put 2105, the number assigned to me on the calling screen on top of the pharmacy counter.

Sketch below: After leaving the students from Marina Bay Promenade, I went to Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf at Marina Bay Sands to have my meal and coffee. The "Wishing Well" called "Rain Oculus" which looks like an hanging inverted bowl structure is just outside the cafe. It creates a whirlpool motion above the promenade level with the water falling two storeys through a hole at the center of the Oculus. I was sitting in the cafe witnessing for the very first time, the water gushing down from the steel pipes and acrylic bowl above.

15 March 2011

A Visit to the last surviving kampong in Singapore & the KTM Station

Here are the results of the ad-hoc urban sketching trip to the last surviving kampong in Singapore, and a short trip to the KTM Tanjong Pagar train station all in ONE day!! Never have the urban sketchers done it before but we did! Surviving a full day of sketching and still have enough time to sit around to chat over coffee, teh tarik, and teh ping lime.

Tanjong Pagar Station / KTM

Kampong Buangkok

Buz's scratching and sketch of the kampong

Buz's interpretation of the KTM station

We had fun. I felt the strain at the end of the day but it was a good strain, mixed with satisfaction from sketching and from spending ample time with the fellow sketchers.

10 March 2011

Toddlers in Tram

It was a big tram that carried three toddlers, front to back. The pink dressed girl has a big sister hidden behind. I managed to sketch one kid before the tram changed perspective.

Watercolour was added in the office.

08 March 2011

Best Thing Ever Happened to Me in 2010

After sketching at Thow Kwang Jungle Pottery a fortnight ago, a few of us gathered for supper at Kembangan. Eric said the best thing that ever happened to him in 2010 was to meet this amazingly talented group of sketchers. I couldn't agree more!

It was the July sketchwalk at Joo Chiat that I first joined USk-SG. I knew nobody in the group then, but just a couple of sketchwalks later, I knew almost everyone (well, most of the regulars) and everyone knew me too... apart from sketching, we share techniques, tools, tips, etc. and encourage one another to keep improving.... with some jokes and banters thrown in, be it in real life or online (usually via facebook)!

Here's one of my sketches at my first sketchwalk in Joo Chiat