Saturday 30 April 2016

April Sketchwalk - Bukit Pasoh

Official sketchwalk for April was held at Bukit Pasoh yesterday in conjunction with Singapore Heritage festival organised by National heritage board and National Museum. Lovely architecture along the street with bright colours of the old as opposed to the neutral and grey hues of the present. Limited palette of mine with Cad yellow, Cad red and Cerulean Blue.






Wednesday 27 April 2016

Follow the light

Tried to capture the dappled light on the shed, however could have used saturated color in there. I used a limited palette of Cad yellow, cad Red and Prussian blue......always remind myself to use more paint, should be bold with the values.....lot of things to learn, that's what keeps me going :)






DIY Stay Wet Palette

My DIY Stay Wet Palette for Gouache........as everyone knew Gouache dries very fast, it's a difficulty in misting the palette every now and then throughout the painting session.....I first tried the normal watercolour palette with sponges and stay wet palette paper, squeezing my paints over...... but it didn't serve the purpose, the palette sheet got crumpled, hues got mixed together..........finally found this plastic palette with deep wells for paints.....don't need to use the stay wet palette paper, directly squeeze paints on the sponge, works for me, paints stay fresh even after 3-5 days inside the palette :)


                                  

Work in Progress


Wednesday 20 April 2016

Void deck

A typical void deck in Singapore apartments, an open space in ground floor with benches, bicycle parking racks and tables, some apartments even have small shops. This is the front pick-up/drop area of our apartment void deck. Often those who live in the ground floor have the option of setting up a nice mini-garden like this. I sketched this from the pedestrian walk, the only difficulty being the big red ants from the mango trees.