Stirling Road Sketch Walk - along Margaret Drive

Stirling Road Sketch Walk , 24 Nov 2012 - along Margaret Drive.

My first sketch was Queenstown Library at Margaret Drive, the library is one of the oldest in Singapore ( built in the  60's ). Margaret Drive was a busy New Town in the 60's to early 90's. Now most of the flats have been demolished for future development except a few buildings left in the area.
The 2nd sketch is the empty land in front of the library and the 3rd is the Old Wet Market which is now a restaurant.
All my works are prewash the day before the sketch walk and sketches are done on location using Hero, Lamy and vintage Mont Blanc pens with Hero Ink.

Old Wet Market - Prewash at home and sketch on location.

result of today's sketchwalk

Stirling Rd is not just a road where I worked 20 years ago when Temasek Poly first started at the current MDIS site. The type of 2-storey house block from 44 to 47 is also the same type that I stayed at Margaret Drive during the 1964 riot in Singapore. It was also quite close to Hock Lee Bus Depot where the riot started in 1955. Two separate riots but I only remember going through one. Now you know my growing up story. Happening!

I sketched the hospital where I was born here.

I sketched the flat where I first stayed although it was very short period of time, then we moved to Margaret Drive in the 2-storey house like this at Stirling road in this sketch. The first flat I stayed was here, which I believe is was around Dawson Road.

Stirling Rd sketchwalk

Van dyck brown (from kremer pigmente or Straits)  + black ink

Van dyck brown + black ink

G-nib + Van dyck brown + black ink

G-nib + Van dyck brown + photoshop