sketchwalk at siglap

Siglap

I wasn't particularly pleased with the composition of this which featured a straight frontal view. The tonal values aren't contrasting enough. The result is quite flat.


Sketching a sloping road is difficult.

Sketching at Siglap

It was a fruitful trip to Siglap area on the 25 Feb 2012 for this month's sketch walk, and we got to spend more time hanging out with the fellow sketchers while drawing around East Coast Road, and also later at Mdm Tia's BBQ party.

Here are my two sketches done at the old housing blocks at East Coast Road.

While sketching the above, a resident of that Blk 1, who also works at the clinic at the next block, came over to chit chat, and she told me these old flats would be gone in three years time and the residents moved en-bloc to Chai Chee estate...

Sketching at Siglap

A bit of colour, for a change.

Sketching A Piece Of SIGLAPore :)

I joined Tia and my other sketching kakis at Siglap. I tried to do a "demographics profile" of its inhabitants. So, I positioned myself at the bus stop. The objective of this particular exercise was to draw them fast and well enough before they can board their respective buses. The buses were in fact, arriving and leaving with the precision and regularity of a Singapore-made Swiss watch I have missed quite a number of very interesting subjects on the account of this. But anyway, here's my recent offering for the day:

Railway Station from Blair Road

The other day I drove by this place and took a quick glance out from the car's window. All I could see is a huge grass patch void of any human activity. The zinc roofed buildings are gone, the rails and the posts have been taken away. Its another piece of empty land awaiting for a condo or a shopping mall to be built on, or maybe a residential area. Who knows. Or they could preserve the land to turn it into a park. There are some talks about it but I don't have good feelings about these discussions.

Near Bugis and Waterloo Street

And other miscellaneous sketches drawn elsewhere...

February sketchwalk

Map of the meeting point HERE. Please note the special timing. See you there!

Restaurants & Cafe

Eating and sketching in restaurants give you the lots of opportunity to draw people dinning (I know its rude to stare) and chilling after food too. (Hero Pen & Watercolor washes).

Clarke Quay

Andrew

Sikh Temple

Happy to find something interesting to draw on Sunday.

Ghim Moh wet market 7am this morning.

parallel pen + photoshop. I had fried carrot cake at the hawker centre next door. But it wasn't so good. the more famous fried carrot cake store was closed today. We then bought chicken and vegetables at the wet market.

Sketching Toa Payoh

1 of the last 3 remaining dragon playgrounds left in Singapore. You can find this playground at Block28 Lorong 6. This playground must be at least 35years old now. It is wonderful to see it again. I even had a good at the slides. Newer gadgety playgrounds have replaced such simple and elegant play space. Such fond memory of trying to play 'make-believe' at these playgrounds. I hope they will keep this playground for as long as possible.

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Drawing my drawing tools...

Hero pen, Noodler's ink on watercolor paper. Ink washes. Sketching my tools is really fun.

sketches thurs to sat

 

Had dinner at Bukit Merah hawker centre.

(parallel pen + watercolour)

Went to the library to work.

(parallel pen)

Meet Seiji for dinner

(brush + watercolour)

 

sketched at Portsdown

(parallel pen + watercolour + photoshop)

Geylang sketchwalk with Tia, Zhu Hong, Eve, Tony, Many uncles were looking over our shoulders.

(hero pen + watercolour)

I drank ice teh-o while I drew this.

(new zebra ballpoint pen + watercolour + hero + crayon + liquid paper + photoshop)

 

 Signboards from another view from the coffeeshop. I could smell something good cooking.

(parallel pen + watercolour + photoshop)

Roadworks were happening just outside the coffeeshop.

(brush+ photoshop)

 

After Penang Asam Laka (with kampong fish) with Tony. We went to the industrial estate near Geylang. It was about 6pm+.

(parallel pen + photoshop)

Cars were whizzing pass, going up a highway bridge near the industrial estate. The sky was an evening sky.

 (noodler's ahab + watercolour)

Sketching at Lebuh Armenian with the Penang Sketchers (15 January 2012)

In January, I made a trip to Penang (my second time, after that sketching trip there last year), and managed to join the Urban Sketchers Penang group to draw around Armenian Street (Lebuh Armenian) in George Town.

Here's a video I made that day while sketching:

This was filmed in HD quality using an iPhone 4 and edited with its iMovie application. Added some royalty-free music by Jason Shaw.

Hope you'll enjoy it!

And here are my two sketches during this particular session...

On the left is the Penang Islamic Museum (formerly the residence of Syed Mohd Alatas, an Achehnese merchant of Arab descent who led the Acheen Street Mosque community during the Penang riots in 1867), and on the right is the residence of Narelle, the friendly owner of China House and a string of art galleries in Penang.

More photos and videos of this sketching trip to come! :)

Cheers,
Edric

Singapore Art Museum