February Sketchwalk - Rochor Centre

Sketched this soon-to-be-demolished Rochor Centre for today's sketchwalk.

Kids Art @myartsandcreatives 2015 - Colouring

Implementing the colouring techniques(blending, gradation, scratching, layering) learnt so far.............

This was given to the students as home assignment and I was very surprised to see that they combined some of the techniques here........exceptionally good!!

Kids Art @myartsandcreatives 2015 - Chalk pastel colouring

Fire and an Ice dragon in chalk pastels!! It's rather easy to blend colours with chalk pastels....though a very messy medium, chalk pastels are remarkable in portraying the glowing light on the lanterns and fire around the dragon.
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Backgarden

Houses near Gerald Drive have wonderful backgardens facing the little canal that extends from the Sengkang waterway, these are just on the opposite side of kampong Buangkok.....here is one I sketched today.

SG HEARTscapes Sketchwalk at National Library Board

Sketching from 10th storey at National Library Board for SG HEARTscapes Sketchwalk.

SG HEARTscapes exhibit at National Library Board

Come down to National Library Board from 29 January to 21 February 2016 to view Singapore's favourite places through the eyes of "Urban Sketchers Singapore". Sketches, paintings and photographs of Singapore are on exhibit for public viewing!!

More details here..... https://www.heartmap.sg/sg-heart-map-heartscapes-exhibition/

Ritu's Sketch of Botanic Gardens........

My sketch...........

Kids Art @myartsandcreatives 2015 - Oil pastel 2

Oil pastel lesson 1 is all about colours and blending....in contrast this lesson combines the technique as well, each student has to choose different colours for each layer and I made them test a small section prior going in with the final picture. This lesson is about scratching out patterns and marks over the layers of Oil pastels, so I drew a picture of Chameleon among the foliage and we studied the skin patterns and colours from many pictures.

Given the choice, some students chose to make the Chameleon blend in with the background, specifying it's unique feature and some chose it to stand out from the background. It was a hardwork but definitely very therapeutic to scratch out the patterns, the kids got surprised at the final outcome since they didn't expect the colour combinations to end up so well!!

Some close-ups.......depending on the choice of colours, the results will be amazing. Here are some complementary colour pairs,

And Analogous colour combos,

And some of our colour and technique explorartions in other drawings,

One of my student's creativity....I like the DNA-like pattern !!