Which one?

Which one you like? old vs new......Glad I captured the old look last year in it's brink of change.

December Sketchwalk - Hill street

A wonderful sketchwalk to end this year! :)

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Working steps

Steps in my gouache painting of "Bore well truck".

Bore well truck

Bore well truck, Gouache on paper........these trucks are very busy nowadays since rain is scarce here. (Nov 30th Erode).

Laying Road

Laying road was used to be a very long and tedious process in the past....now it has become much faster than I expected, still the smell of tar gives me headache. Today morning sketch(Nov 29th in Erode).

Signalling Robot

Automated signalling man has been in operation since a few weeks in the nearby the construction site. The robot is dressed up quite convincingly to look like a traffic controller, everybody slows down to take a closer look. First time seeing like this.

Values

Here's a detail from a sketch (in progress) I did yesterday.....among the two traffic cones, one has a change in tone from light into shadow (showing convincing turning of form) and the other has a single tone throughout (can't see form and structure), this is why I think tones are very important. Any other views on this?

At Changi beach

At Changi beach last Sunday..........

September Sketchwalk

Sketched The Yoga Shala and Singapore Chao Ann Association with The Pinnacle@Duxton at the back. And friend Eve is also sketching here.

Sketches

Some random sketches...... Sengkang west waterway.

Sentosa, Palawan Beach

Not so crowded on mornings, it's a pleasant day. Be careful of oil spills everywhere in the water, my son got them on his skin and dress. We're seeing too many ships very near the beach.

Sentosa, Siloso Beach

Stay-cation in Sentosa..........Siloso beach in Gouache, 9" X 12"

View from my Kitchen window. I've done the same view before in charcoal, details in the link below:
http://myartsandcreatives.blogspot.sg/2015/05/urban-sketchers-singapore-volume-2.html

Reason for sketching this again in Gouache is, the construction materials have arrived in the nearby vacant land and I'm pretty sure this view will be gone forever. I have planned to sketch the progress in construction stages from the same view, it may take 2-3 years, but I'll try to document the slow changes as seen through my window. Let's see how it goes!!

August Sketchwalk- Niven Road

August sketchwalk at Niven road....A4, Gouache on Arches watercolour paper. My first sketchwalk was three years before, August 2013 at Bukit Timah Railway station :)

July 2016 Sketchwalk - Wessex Estate

After some episodes of migraines and vertigo, finally I could start sketching again. Ritu joined me for this month's official sketchwalk in the charming, quiet Wessex Estate....he was thrilled to see roosters and hens in Singapore!! We went late and bad I couldn't stay for show and tell session, looking forward for the next sketchwalk :)

Morning Gossip

Morning Gossip, India.....9" X 12"......Gouache on paper.

 Details......

Our backyard

Our backyard in India, 4" X 11", Gouache on paper.

Row of shops , 4" X 11", Gouache on paper.

Back from India with a couple of sketches..........a row of shops opposite to my house, in the middle is a typical south Indian petty shop. People gather here to have tea, coffee and discuss local village issues to international matters. This petty shop is owned by a "bhai", we here commonly call all our Muslim friends "bhai", meaning brother. 

I usually block-in with a warm orange tone for all my sketches especially for the foliage, here I started sketching the focal point first and as I moved on either sides, felt the sketch was complete by then and decided not to make it too busy.

The Door

It was very interesting to sketch this unused door in the material storage place...but my motto was to show convincing light and shadow across the patch of grass.As often said, it is important to have a clear objective to sketch or paint a scene in technical/artistic terms that you wish to capture on the 2D surface, it can be like an interesting shape, convincing light, colors in shadow, temperature difference, depth in distance/atmosphere, turning of form etc. rather than just liking the scene/subject.

Mother's Day

I'm not a fan of the much commercialized celebration of "Days" like teacher's day, mother's day etc., instead I wud advise my students to make handmade cards or gifts if they want to gift their loved ones....but last week my son bought an artificial rose from his bookshop for me(with the extra money he had), he said everyone bought gifts for their mums too......and I shud admit, that moment of receiving a gift from those little hands is very exceptional, he later promised to give me a handmade card too :)
And what I did with it? as usual............Gouache (Cad yellow, Cad Red, Alizarin Crimson, Cerulean blue).