SKETCHWALK JULY

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”

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.

SKETCHWALK @ MARINA BAY BLVD – MARINA BAY WATERFRONT

Meet at Marina Bay City Gallery. A free standing building next to Promontory @ Marina Bay. Nearest MRT station is the new Downtown Station at Marina Bay Link Mall.

See map below for a clearer picture.

Show and tell will be back where we meet, then we decide where to go for lunch. Marina Bay Sands or the Link Mall for some good food. Please call Tia for directions if you get lost. Tel: 96968080.

Extra: Explore map of area here: Map here.
http://www.streetdirectory.com/asia_travel/travel/travel_id_52667/travel_site_1/?x=103.85407149269&y=1.2814551137504&l=13

SKETCHWALK FEB

We have 2 sketchwalk locations for you this month. Our sketchwalk at our usual time this saturday will be at the business district. We will meet at RAFFLES PLACE MRT station at 9AM. We can sketch around this quieter business district on the weekend. see map. I’m looking forward to exploring and sketching the Marina Blvd area with it’s new structures near to the water front. We will meet at Lau Pa Sat hawker Centre at 12pm for lunch and show and tell. Please call Andrew at 91070735 for more info. Me and Don will be meeting you there.

Tia will not be able to join us for Saturday’s sketchwalk. This is because she will be at the Dragon Kiln from Friday till Sunday doing pottery wood firing. She invites anyone who is interested to join her for a mini sketchwalk and BBQ at the tree house there. (no need to bring BBQ food but finger food welcome). The location is Thow Kwang Pottery Jungle. 85 Lorong Tawas (off Jalan Bahar). And please come on FRIDAY 6PM till late. (***the night before our saturday sketchwalk***) It may be a little far off to get to. But it is an interesting place. To Thow Kwang Pottery Jungle – Take MRT to Boon Lay Station. Hop on to bus 199 at the bus interchange. Alight the bus stop after the PIE flyover along Jalan Bahar, just before the turn to Nanyang Avenue (NTU). You can see a small road on the left side with huge pots at the corner before the bus stop.

Please call Tia for directions if you get lost or if you need more info about the dragon kiln. Tel: 96968080.

SKETCHWALK this saturday

You are invited to join us for our upcoming sketchwalk happening this saturday, 29th Jan. We will be meeting at the Dong Ya(東亞) building (Junction of Keong Saik Road/Teck Lim Road) at 9am, you may have your breakfast there and then spread out in any direction around the area to draw. At 12.30pm, we will have our “show and tell” at a sweet couple’s home at the nearby New Bridge Road! Thanks to Minju and Jeff for their hospitality. If you recall, both of them were at our recent special sketchwalk at Margaret Drive. Please call Tia 96968080 if you can’t find us or need more information. See you there!

Here is a MAP. The closest MRT to the area is Outram Park station.

there will be a special sketchwalk this saturday

You are invited to join us for a special sketchwalk this Saturday, 8 Jan 2011 near Margaret Drive in Queenstown. We are hoping to sketch and record the old estate before it is demolished by end Jan 2011. We will meet at 9.30am, Blk 27A Commonwealth Ave, at the bus stop nearest to Queenstown MRT Station. call Edric at 96358132 if you are lost at the station.

Alternatively, you can meet TIA at blk 40A, the hawker centre for an early breakfast before the sketchwalk. We will start sketching at around 9.40am from the hawker centre and explore the surroundings. Blk 38 has an unique roof structure – an icon in the rustic charming Margaret Drive neighbourhood. Call TIA at 96968080 if you are lost on the day of sketchwalk!

( Do note that there is another session on the last Sat of the month for Jan- this one is a special session- so mark the dates- don’t miss them! – added by mindflyer)

SKETCHWALK: DECEMBER

The upcoming sketchwalk in December will take place on X’mas day!

This will be our last sketch walk of the year! All are welcome to join us for our upcoming sketchwalk happening next saturday, 25th Dec, 2010. We will be meeting at the main lobby of Vivo City between Bakerzin and National Geographic stores at 11am. Interesting locations to sketch will be the water fountain area, Vivo’s main facade, the cruises, the view of Sentosa and the roof top pool garden where there is a huge Xmas tree! Finally, we will meet 2pm at Harbourfront’s 3rd floor Food Court for a show and tell session plus food and drink of course.

For this special X’mas sketchwalk, Edric Hsu will be in-charge and if you are lost in the city on the X’mas day, call Edric at 96358132.

SKETCHWALK OCTOBER

You’re invited to the upcoming sketchwalk this Saturday at Chinatown. We will meet at the McDonald’s across from People’s Park complex (see map) at 9am. From there you may spread out in all directions to sketch all the intricacies of chinatown to your heart’s content. At 12pm, please plan to conclude your sketchwalk at Maxwell hawker center (see map) where we will have lunch + show and tell. For more information or directions, please contact Tia 96968080 or Drew 91070735. See you there!

Sketchwalk Special October @ City Hall

Sketchwalk @ City Hall

You are most welcomed to join us, Urbansketchers, OIC for a special October Sketchwalk that is going to be held at the City Hall or the future The National Art Gallery, Singapore. In conjunction with the sketchwalk event, Dr Yeo and Sheau Theng will be there to give a historical introduction of these buildings namely City Hall and the Supreme Court. At the same time, Infocus Asia will be recording on video the entire process as we sketch.

Let’s meet along the City Hall steps at 9am. We will be sketching at both the mentioned buildings, including the Victoria Theater if time allowed and lastly inside the old Supreme Court if permissible. Finally we should have a sharing and coffee session.

Contact TIA @ 96968080 for more information or if you have any query.

Sketching weekend and a new pen

Weekend was a blast! Swam in the Infinity Pool, bought a new pen for myself – the second HERO fountain pen which cost SGD29. Sketched at National Library and read @ Basheer – didn’t buy any books – must save money for other thing….

View from National Library @ Hans Cafe

The above sketch was done with a Hero and colored back home. Here’s a sketch of the other Hero I bought @ Straits Commercial. The thinner version with a metallic grip. It has a stiffer nib but still gives a great variety of line thickness and quality. I loaded my older Hero with Polar Brown Noodlers Ink and now it is working much better. I think I have to work it more often in order to prevent clogging.

My new Hero Fountain Pen

Another sketch done with the fatter Hero fountain pen, and painted at home over the weekend.  The problem with this pen was the ink would once in a while stop flowing out of the nib. I have to give the ink converter cartridge a push to remove any trapped air bubbles to aid the flow. Or dipping into an ink pot may help too – that could be a little messy.

Changi Road Kopitiam Colored

Thank you! I hope it is okay to post these.

Traditional Wayang with Puppets

First and foremost, thanks to Carol who took this wonderful pictures, and informing me of the traditional puppet wayang up in Ang Mo Kio Ave 10. As of the reason to why there was a Chinese puppet opera and a wild celebration of worshiping the deities that night was unknown to me. I wouldn’t understand anything of that sort but would do my best to understand, though my objective that night was to attempt to make some sketches of the event.

Drawing a crowd.

My sketch of the puppet show stage

My sketch against the real deal

My sketch took about 20-30mins to complete, or maybe more as during the process, I stopped to talk to an elderly guy who came over to tell me that this is a vanishing trade. Well so much for vanishing trade. When first I arrived at the puppet show, there wasn’t anyone sitting in front of the stage to watch it. I thought the show was over but it wasn’t. The crowds were gathered at the getai and another opera a short distant away. There were no chair too. I have to pull a chair from somewhere so I could sit myself right in front of the stage. I was the only audience. Halfway through my sketch I managed to attract a small crowd standing behind me. They were not watching the show but looking on curiously why and what I was sketching.

I was having quite a lot of fun splashing colors – lots of it. The traditional puppet show was a great display of light and colors. Due to the nature of the medium and my lack of proper management of paint, I had a hard time replicating or representing it. But I think I did a fairly good job in making the sketch look really busy – that would easily be the noise, the smell of the incense, the crowds and so forth that invaded my space while I was sketching.