SketchWalk ChaoPhraya, Bangkok. 22-24 Feb 2013

Wat Pho - Sketched with Hero pen and Calli Brown Ink on pre wash paper.

Santa Cruz Church - Sketched with Lamy & Hero pens on pre wash paper.

Wat Pitchaya - Sketch with colour pencils and Pantel Brush Pen on pre coffee stained paper.

Wat Prayurawongs - Sketched with Hero pen and Calli Brown Ink.

Sketched with Hero pen and colour pencils on pre coffee stained paper.

Street of Bangkok - Sketched with Hero pen & Calli Ink.

Wat Kalaya - Sketched with Hero pen & Calli Brown Ink

Wat Kalaya

Bang Luang Mosque - Sketched with Hero & Lamy pens

Memorial Bridge - Ink Wash

View from Central World - Sketched with Uni Pin pens

Suvamabhumi Airport Gate G3 - Sketched with Hero pen & Calli Ink.

February sketchwalk

For all those who did not join Tia and gang for the Bangkok sketch trip, you can still join those in Singapore for Thai-based sketchwalk. We will be sketching around Golden Mile Complex where they sell Thai products and good Thai food! We will meet at the Golden Mile FOOD CENTRE (see map below) somewhere on the 1ST FLOOR (not basement) at 930am. Just look for a bunch of sketchers gathered there. You can have your breakfast there earlier too. At 930am, we will spread out in all directions, free and easy style, to sketch.

Here are some ideas where you could go: 1) snoop around Golden Mile Complex. 2) draw behind Golden Mile complex where you can see the shoreline. 3) Draw the army market where army boys buy army gear. It's just above the food centre we are meeting at. You can buy foldable stools there too. 4) Climb up to the higher floors of the flats and building around for a fresh view of things.

We will meet back at the same meeting point at 1230pm to see each other's sketches. For lunch, you can try out the food stall at Golden Mile Complex or anywhere else you like. At the food centre, the claypot rice at the basement right at the corner is good. And so is the Fried Hokkien mee in the middle of the basement floor. If you are lost, you can call Andrew at 91070735. But we should not be hard to locate.

To get there, the closest MRT station is Lavander. From there, it is a short walk to the meeting point. See you there!

people sketch

Very busy lately with work and Chinese New Year preparations. However, I still tried to sketch if I could find time and a place to rest and chill. The big lady on the left in this sketch was talking to the old lady sitting in a wheelchair. I could not help but wanted to sketch them. I was having porridge breakfast at my favourite Hua Hua Coffee Shop at Marine Parade. Drawing people is so fun, I only see lines and shapes, no tones and colours.

cafes, concerts and commuting

Went to see my cousins on Yvonne's side of the family, Kevin and Jacq, perform. Many of Yvonne's uncles and aunties came to watch too. Kuretake brush pen.

Kevin is the one with the interesting hair. An old man in office shirt and pants suddenly jumped up and started doing a dance throughout a whole song. He danced very well and rigorously and then gave a bow. Kevin asked his age after the number and he said he was 67 years old.

They sound a like Beirut and Arcade Fire mixed together. They are called the Sapporo Safaris.

Hero pen + Pilot Falcon (modified) + photoshop.

Trying more disjointed lines. A kind of Sempe style. Hero pen + photoshop.

Parallel pen.

After church. Pilot Falcon with Private Reserve ebony blue ink. I like this ink! Not water-resistant. But flows well.

Coffee Joints - B&W Ink Sketches

Bedok South Block 18 Market - Sketched with Hero Pen & Ink

Wendy's at Liat Tower - Sketched Hero Pen & Hero Ink Wash

Mr Prata Family Restaurant - Sketched with Hero Pen & Hero Ink Wash.

Starbucks Coffee at Changi Airport T3 - Sketched with Hero pen and Pental Pen Brush.

Wang Cafe at Changi Airport T3 - Sketched with Hero Pen & Pental Pen Brush.

TCC Cafe at Changi Airport T3 - Sketched with Hero Pen & Pental Pen Brush.

January sketches

Got some new notebooks from Epigram. They don't take watercolour or fountain pen ink well. So I had to use my underused ballpoint pens in these. And I do like the look of ballpoint pens on this notebook paper. I have a few ballpoints which I like. 1) A uniball 1.0 jetstream 2) Parker with ballpoint quink ink 3)Zebra BA66-BK. These are the smoothest ones I've tried though most ballpoints feel more or less the same.

Monday night dinner.

drawing people at Shen Yi's wedding. He was my neighbour. And this is his mom pointed on in the picture.

Sketched this while waiting for Yvonne to arrive in a bus from Orchard Rd. Time isn't wasted if i'm sketching.

Found this restaurant on ieatishootipost and we hunted it down on a friday night.

It was good. We over-ordered as well. Noodler's Ahab + home-made tea ink.

The next morning, I joined the Urbansketchers for a sketchwalk along Portsdown Rd.

We ended the walk at Colbar along Whitchurch Rd.