Sketchcrawl Results

The top is my sketch at the 5th location at the corner of Rowell Road and Kampong Kapor Road. Next are sketches at Norris Road (6th location) and Verdun Road (2nd location) near Mustafa. The pictures above were taken at the first location and the last location.

We had a great turn out on our very first 'organised' sketchscrawl on Saturday, 27 Feb 2010 to coincide with the 26th world sketchcrawl day. I had done sketch walk, sketch weekend, sketch trip, sketch tour but never sketch crawl. I was happy to see so many new faces. We started around 9am from a relatively new shopping complex called City Square Mall for breakfast and ended at around 1pm for a laksa lunch. We braved the extremely hot and humid weather, armed with sketchbooks and pens, combed the busy streets in Little India area. I did seven sketches and you can visit them on my flickr site here.

More sketch results from Singapore sketchers here.

Here are more pictures, enjoy!

Sketchscrawl 27th feb 2010 Saturday, 9AM-2PM

In conjuction with the 26th world wide sketchcrawl, and together with organisation of illustrators council, we will be doing a sketchwalk around little india area. Moving off time is at 9am (sharp!). Location is City Square Mall’s toastbox (just outside Farrer Park MRT). People who want to join us for breakfast can meet us at 8.30am at toastbox. Travel light and breezy. There will be walking, sketching, sweating, chatting, and lots of fun. We will conclude the sketchwalk with lunch. Just show up if attending. invitation open to everyone with an interest in outdoor sketching.

Sketches of Kranji Industrial Park

These sketches are the results of last Saturday sketch walk with Drewscape, Seiji and Don Low. Katherine, Don's wife waited in the van and worked on her laptop while we were sketching.

First, the scrap yard - it is very surreal to see different parts of the car stacked on top of each other.


Next, one of the many forklifts next to a big pile of exhaust pipes.


This location with the huge concrete silos was an instant favourite.


Do you think these look like flamingos?

Sketch Walk at Kranji Industrial Park

I join OIC members for a wonderful sketch walk last Saturday. We went to Kranji Industrial Park in Drewscape's van and we had one wonderful and fun roller coastal ride along the way when he made sudden right or left turn at almost every junctions. We also saw the most bizzard 'street art' on the tarmac road with fallen eggs in a triangular sunburst pattern.

We sketched at the scrap yard, concrete slabs production plant and another industrial plant with huge concrete silos structure. These sketchers are awesome and they are very, very good. They just could not stop sketching when we were having our yummy fish head curry lunch. Please visit urbansketchers-singapore for more sketches. Here are some pictures of our adventure. I have yet to find time to scan my sketches.

25th World SketchCrawl Day

The turn out for the SketchCrawl this morning was very encouraging, we have 7 people. One of them was Khoo from Penang. He was here attending the Singapore Watercolour Society 40th Annual Exhibition and it was timely for him to join us. Khoo is also an accomplished artist who knows Ch'ng Kiah Kien, USk correspondent from Penang, Malaysia. Both had met Asnee, USk correspondent from Bangkok with details here.

As many of us only met each other for the very first time, we spent more time networking at the cozy couch corner at BooksActually at 86, Club Street after first round of sketching around the vacinity. We were sharing sketching gear, tips and flipping through our sketchbooks. Thank you Kenny and Karen from BooksActually for allowing us to use their cozy couch corner for the sketchers' exchange, the Singapore style.

It was a good session that we made new friends who share the same passion about location drawings. The first sketch was done together with our new friends at Club Street. The second sketch was done at a street nearer to my house on my way home on this World SketchCrawl Day.

Please visit urbansketchers-singapore for more sketches. Here are some pictures.

lonely sketchcrawl

I only knew about sketchcrawl after joining USk. #23 sketchcrawl was last Saturday when I had to work on my clay pieces to prepare for the upcoming 3-day & 2-night woodfiring in early August. I still managed to find time to do one sketch at the dragon kiln. Another earlier piece of the dragon kiln was here.