Urban Sketchers Singapore : January 2012

30 January 2012

result of Jan sketchwalk

National Museum exterior and interior. It was another great turnout for the urban sketchers Singapore group. We were there at 10am and visited the Dream and Reality Exhibition which featured the collection of the world renowned Musée d’Orsay. Most of the exhibits were small paintings, photographs and drawings by the realists, impressionists and post-impressionists artists whose names were rather unknown to us in Asia. The only take away for me was to see the original paintings by my favourite artists, Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin. Even Van Gogh's famous "Starry Nights" only caught my attention for about 2 mins and I left quickly for sketching. Perhaps I should spend another day just to go through the exhibits again without sketching in mind. Then again, I had been to Musée d’Orsay in 2004 whereby the setting and ambience was entirely different.

sat sketches + photoshop

After scanning, the drawings, I usually use photoshop to crop and use "levels" (under image/adjustments) to darken the darks and/or brighten the whites. It makes the drawings more crisp.

drawings on sat

national museum. parallel pen

water colour + hero

Singapore, a large Buddhist temple in the middle of Chinatown, I am not sure on what street/square, but I am sure Singapore locals will know where this is. I was told Buddha's tooth is supposed to lie here.
I was nearly run over while sitting at the roadcurb on the other side of the street, while drawing this.

28 January 2012

National Museum 2012

Sketchwalk at National Museum (28 Jan 2012)

Photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teohyc/sets/72157629065771779/detail/

25 January 2012

Giveaway contest for the Jan 2012 Sketchwalk

That's the sketchwalk at the National Day Museum on Jan 28.

Criteria:

You must be attending to be eligible for this giveaway. I'll announce the winners during the sketchwalk.
Just post a comment on which prize you want to win. You can choose all, but you can only win one.
If you've won a prize within the last six months, then I'll skip over your name.

Urban Sketchers em Lisboa - desenhando a cidade
This is the sketchbook from the Lisbon Symposium 2011.

Color Mixing Recipes For Watercolor

sketchwalk January

This saturday 28 Jan, we will be sketching inside AND all around the National Museum of Singapore. we will also cover the fort canning park which is just behind the museum. It's free and easy so you can chose just the museum or both locations. We will meet at the museum's main porch (or around the front) at 10am. We will then spread out to any part of the musuem we want. It is the museum's open house that day, so you may also visit and draw in any of the galleries for free (see below). We will meet back at the museum's main porch at 1pm where we will gather for "show and tell" and then head for lunch. See you there!

chinese new year sketches

my grand parents, my mom driving, and my uncle on chinese new year. parellel pen on brown paper + photoshop to take out the brown colour using "levels" and to add flat colours. I could have used white paper but the brown paper had nicer texture.

24 January 2012

Still a tourist after all (2) these years

Lots of time in my hands over the Holiday, headed over to touristy destination.

3rd International Urban Sketching Symposium

22 January 2012

Happy Dragon Year to all!

Gong Xi Fa Cai

So I went back to try and finish what I had started the previous Saturday. The washes were added at home. Glad I participated, albeit unkowningly, in the 34th Worldwide Sketchcrawl Day.

Sketching Dragons in Chinatown

In conjunction with the Lunar New Year and the 34th Worldwide Sketchcrawl Day on the 21 January 2012, some of us from the Urban Sketchers Singapore group headed over to Chinatown to capture the festive mood on paper.

And here, I have attempted to capture my sketching process on video, which was entirely shot, edited and posted with an iPhone 4, together with the iMovie application.

Hope you'll like it!

Gallardo

While walking from the promenade metro station to the Millennium bridge, I suddenly found myself on a parking lot in front of a shopping mall. There were eight Lamborghini Gallardo's parked among minor stuff like BMW 7 series, Mercedes S-class and Maserati quattraporte. Not a view that I am used to.
I drew this white beauty while my colleagues were patiently waiting for me; I painted it later in the hotelroom.

19 January 2012

Orchard road

I found this traditional wooden house in the middle of beautiful vegetation on Orchard road, just opposite my hotel. I woke up too early that morning due to a huge jetlag, so I made a little walk before breakfast, and painted this little drawing in the early morning sun.

18 January 2012

lavander dried goods market

Drew this from my car. parallel pen 3.8 + photoshop. parallel pen draws pretty well if you treat it like a flat brush and not like a pen.

16 January 2012

sketchwalk drawings in chinatown

For the coloured ones, i was trying putting down the colours first. Then drawing in the lines.

14 January 2012

No sketchwalk for me

Unfortunately I was unable to join the sketchwalk, I was on the plane back to Europe this morning (I didn´t even know there was one).
But last Thursday I happened to make a sketch of the same dragon that Parka drew, on the entrance road to Chinatown - I don't know the name. So consider me as a virtual member of your sketchwalk today.....

Chinatown Sketchwalk (14 Jan 2012)

9 by 12 inch.

Second sketch on my new Ebony sketchbook from Daler-Rowney. It's not easy to stand and sketch with the book. Perspective is a bit off for the left piece.

More photos at:
www.flickr.com/photos/teohyc/sets/72157628864134651

Sketchwalk 14 Jan 2012

I was a bit too ambitious with my first drawing of The Majestic (I'll have to go back), so for the time being I will settle for these "thumbnails", where I've included my so called "signature" white.
Very impressed with visiting sketcher Steve's drawings, it's good to have the chance to talk face to face with a great artist!

11 January 2012

Ad-hoc Chinese New Year Sketchwalk

We will sketch with Steven Reddy from Seattle this Saturday. Steven is going home from China via Singapore from 10 to 18 Jan. Check out his blog full of beautiful sketches. Before his trip to Singapore, he sketched with the Bangkok sketchers so now he is egar to meet the Singapore Sketchers.

Meet 9.30am at McDonald's Lucky China Town Point located at 211 New Bridge Road. We will explore the New Bridge Road, the big dragon, the bridge and the row of beautiful heritage buildings aka Majestic Hotel, Yue Hwa Emporium. Here is the map.

10 January 2012

POST YOUR DRAWING TIP

Post your drawing tip (following the format below) and I will collect them in our new

"drawing tip" page. http://urbansketchers-singapore.blogspot.com/p/drawing-tips.html

Post any personal tip from drawing tool to techniques. Keep it short and simple.

Title it "TIP FROM YOUR-NAME"

TIP FROM ANDREW

My own personal rule of thumb. Every drawing should these 3 parts. Highlights, mid tones and darks. Highlights can be the white of your paper or a very light colour. Midtones are your greys or any colour that becomes grey when you convert it to grey tones. Darks are your solid blacks or very dark colours. With these 3 tones in your pictures, you will bring out the shapes of objects more clearly. (some exceptions just have highlights and darks)

I find that the more contrast I have between each of the 3 tones, the more crisp the picture becomes.

Squinting your eyes when you are on the streets can help you see the 3 tones more clearly.

07 January 2012

Zhu Hong's studio

9 by 12 inch, Hero pen, Noodler's Ink, Graphitone

This is Zhu Hong's studio. I was there to attend the Telok Kurau Studios 14th Annual Exhibition and he was one of the artists featured. This was drawn before the exhibition.

I wanted to put in two vanishing points but failed.

Keppel Harbour

9 by 12 inch, Pilot Parallel pen, Noodler's Ink, Graphitone

That should be Keppel Club at Keppel Harbour. I reached there by walking from Labrador MRT station along side Berlayer Creek Boardwalk, and then Bukit Chermin Boardwalk.

The buildings are more majestic than I've drawn them here.

I drew this really quick because the sun was scorching and places with shade were also warm. I'll probably revisit this place in the evening in the future.