January 2016 Sketchwalk - Chinatown

HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR TO ALL MY FRIENDS!!

With Lunar New Year commencing next week, the official Sketchwalk for January was organised at Chinatown.....the place is festive with people and lots of goodies, me and ritu went to sketch the Mariamman temple.

The temple has a banner in front with wishes for the coming Lunar new year and was bustling with people of all races and religion. When we finished sketching and about to move, the Lion Dancers reached the temple and were ready to start their performance.

 Anyway we had to move on to watch Woon Lam Ng's watercolor demo. He stressed on to have a good, strong structure first before building up on the details over. We couldn't stay for the Show and Tell, rushed back home.

Kampong Buangkok

Kampong Buangkok, Gouache, 3.5" X 11"

Kids Art @myartsandcreatives 2015 - Introduction class

A colourful start of my Art & Craft lessons for the current batch that started in the mid of 2015.......I have many excuses for not sharing these promptly, but for now stay inspired by the wonderful name art.....

Water Sports Centre, Anchorvale

Water Sports Centre, Anchorvale.....A4, Gouache.....the foreground was too big in the original sketch, I cropped some of the foreground here.

Pongal Kolam 2016

Happy to be a part of the Pongal festival celebration at Cheng San Community Club with respected Prime Minister of Singapore as the Guest of Honour......many kids and adults of other races enjoyed looking at the Rangoli, all eager to learn about this thanksgiving (to Sun and the cattle) harvest festival. I included as many elements as I could within the allotted time of 1 hour.

My try,

Pongal Kolam, Rangoli, CC, Singapore

Pongal Kolam, Rangoli, CC, Singapore

On "Vasantham"......

Pongal Kolam, Rangoli, CC, Singapore

Sengkang Hockey Stadium

Sengkang Hockey stadium is a part of Sengkang Sports and Recreation Centre, two important events have been held here in the past few years - Hockey tournament of 2010 Youth Olympic Games and SEA Games. I sketched this in two sessions, this was the result after 1 hour for the 1st day...

After going to the location the next day, realised I forgot to bring my brushes and water pail.......then came back home and sketched the remaining from photo.

Happy New Year!

Rangoli, kolam, Singapore