City Hall area sketchwalk (30 Jul 2011)

This is probably the most intense sketchwalk ever.









Some photos from the day:


If you need the actual photo for whatever reason:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teohyc/sets/72157627191762005/detail/

ALL-DAY SKETCHWALK this saturday

We will have a special sketchwalk this saturday. A crazy one! An all-day one! And everyone is invited.

The sketchwalk schedule is as follows:
1) Meet 9am at City Hall MRT (Starbucks entrance)
2) St Andrew's Cathedral
3) Old Capitol Building
4) Stamford House
5) Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce
6) Armenian Church
7) 12.30pm Lunch at Funan Digitalife Mall 4th Level Food Court and "show and tell"
8) Central Fire Station
9) Peranakan Museum
10) The Substation
11) MPH Building
12) CHIJMES Chapel and Courtyard
13) 5.30pm Dinner at Raffles City Shopping Centre 3rd Level Food Court and "show and tell"
14) Head over to One Fullerton or Esplanade for NDP rehearsal fireworks for more sketching!

We are keeping it informal. So you may drop in and drop out at any time. If you can only make it for a few hours, to make it simple, choose either the morning session (9am onward) or the afternoon one (12.30pm onward). Tia won't be around this time. So Don, Edric and me will be the organisers. If you get lost or can't find us, please contact Don 84183032. Edric 96358132 or me, Andrew 91070735. Dress breezy, travel light, bring your own drawing materials and we hope to see you there for a fun sketchwalk!

ps. It would be helpful if everyone keyed in the above schedule into their phones.

Changi Broadwalk

Ola from Lisbon!

 
Its nearly 1am here in Lisbon. Before I go to bed, I just want to let you all know that it is been a great 1st day at the symposium. We had hot but wonderful weather, great friends, good company and an awesome city waiting for us to explore. Keep a look out for more of our updates and sketches tomorrow! Night......

Little India in squares

Drawn with the Safari Lamy fountain pen and Noodler's ink. Great combination.

These are 10cm squares which are quite small, and hence difficult to draw on. I cut the 12 by 9 inch Daler Rowney watercolour paper to this format.

I drew the lines there (about 30-45 minutes each) and coloured at home.









Line art:

brown paper sketchbook $3

Hi sketchers,

   I've bought quite a lot of brown paper at home which I use to draw on. More than enough. So I've decided to wrap them with a nice cover, staple and razor trim them so they can be used as sketchbooks. There are 9 folded brown paper sheets in total (that gives you 36 pages to draw on) around 135gsm thick, I think. A5 size. paper holds ink, pencils and paint pretty well. And they are good for techniques that use whites on a darker surface. 

   If anyone is interested in owning one, I'm gonna sell them for $3 each. (the price of a plate of hawker fried kway teow). Since I will be making them one by one and by hand, I'd like to take a pre-order in the comments section before I start production. I will make one for you only if you put your name down in the comments section to confirm your purchase. I will hand you the sketchbooks at our next sketchwalk.

Giveaway contest for July 2011

Here's July's giveaway contest. The prizes will be given out during the end-of-month sketchwalk, wherever that may be. You must be attending to be eligible for this giveaway.

There are three prizes. You can choose all, but you can only win one.

Just post a comment on which prize you want to win.

Make sure you leave clues on how to contact you. E.g. If you're posting using a Blogger (Google) profile, make sure your profile page has your email address.

I'll announce the winners one day before the sketchwalk. If I'm unable to contact the winners, I'll give the prizes away randomly during the sketchwalk.



Prizes:

• Drawn In: A Peek into the Inspiring Sketchbooks of 44 Fine Artists, Illustrators, Graphic Designers, and Cartoonists
• Watercolor Secrets: An Inside Look at the Techniques of Award-Winning Splash Artists
• Derwent Inktense Blocks

Merlion crowded with tourists

I can't believe this place is more crowded than a market.

The tones were added with the Derwent Graphitone. The background was done too hastily. I should not have applied the graphite to the paper since it's not totally soluble. And I forgot to bring a bigger brush, hence the background isn't very even.


I'm into square composition nowadays.

sketch-sailing and sitting.

Sailing with Li-en and Vince. On the way to St John's island.

Wet market at Ghim Moh. The hawkers were staring suspiciously at me while I was drawing.

BBQ at Yvonne's friend's condo. It was Clarissa's birthday party. (the little girl top left)

Me at my desk.

My mom. And scenes from Tanglin Halt area while drinking Teh-O.

Result of Community Sketchwalk at Tiong Bahru Pt 2

Result of community sketchwalk on 9 July - first location. Second location on my blog.
Size 210 x 290mm, ink and wash.

Supreme Court Building from the Padang

Drawn while (not) watching my friends playing a soccer match a couple of weeks ago.

Sketches of Tiong Bahru

Participated in the second Tiong Bahru Sketchwalk organized by White Canvas Gallery in conjunction with the Tiong Bahru Revisited Exhibition featuring Tia, Don, Miel, Paul & friends (yours truly is one of friends with 2 sketches).

I decided to have a little change of style.  Instead of the usual ink and watercolour washes, I used 6B graphite pencil and watercolour (on Fabriano Artistico Rough 300 gsm), and I quite like the effect.

After that, a few of us went to Tiong Bahru Plaza food court for dinner, and I did a quick sketch the drinks seller and a customer with 6B graphite pencil .

Tiong Bahru Sketchwalk (9 Jul 2011)

Tones are rendered with Derwent Watersoluble Sketching pencils.

Below are photos taken today. Ong Kim Seng and his group were also sketching in the same area.

Sketchwalk at Tiong Bahru - Repost

Dear fellow Urbansketchers,

You are all invited to join TIA, PAUL, MIEL & DON this Saturday and the next for a sketchwalk at Tiong Bahru. We will meet at the gallery and start at 2.30pm. This is part of Tiong Bahru Revisit 2011 exhibition which opens today at Whitecanvas Gallery. Seeya!

Result of Community Sketchwalk at Tiong Bahru Pt 1

Result of community sketchwalk on 2 July - first and second location.
Size 210 x 290mm, ink and wash.

Thanks Kit Mun and Kelvin for the following pictures.