Huge mural project

Photo Credit: Yuen Kit Mun

100% made in Singapore. We have the capability. Now everybody knows about it, this is my contribution. it's a huge mural panel at Basement 2, Centrepoint Mall. First of its kind in material and size because it is direct digital print on aluminium panels. No, I did not paint this on site. You can see it once you enter the mall from the MRT station via 313@Sommerset. I will need time to do the documentation on processes later.

Other artists who are involved in this are: Francis Theo, Ignatius Yeo and Tony Chua, all members of Urban Sketchers Singapore but this is not an Urban Sketchers project, it all started from a story line like this: Once upon a time, TIA met up with her old schoolmate from School of Architecture at Temesek Poly.......

October Sketchwalk

It's going to be a festive weekend with Deepavali/Diwali falling on Saturday, so we're going to visit the narrow and bustling streets of Little India looking for colourful scenes to put on paper.

MEETING POINTS

Start (Briefing)
9:30 AM
City Square Mall (above Farrer Park MRT station)
Kitchener Road entrance steps

End (Show n Tell)
12:30 PM
Indian Heritage Centre

See you there!

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Inktober #02

This is done with the Pental black brush pen.

My first Inktober

This is the first time that I take part in Inktober. I have so many different types of sketchbooks, pens and colours that I bought or gifted laying pretty on my bookshelves, I need to either give away or do something about it. It was last Saturday on 1 Oct that I took out the A6 size sketchbook I got from Royal College of Art in 2004 and doodled on it with a grey brush pen. I used to doodle underwater sea creatures during those office meetings in the day, all imaginative and nonsensical based on a grid. Let's do this again and see how far it takes.

September Sketchwalk announcement

For the session this coming Saturday, we visit Peck Seah / Tras Street, where some huge shophouses stand proudly against an ever climbing skyline.

MEETING POINTS
Start
9:30 am
Tanjong Pagar MRT Station
Exit A

There's a field like place by the side near the temple. And early birds can have their breakfast across the street at the coffeeshop or food centre.

Peck Seah and Tras Street, plus Tanjong Pagar Road, run parallel with lots of beautiful shophouses to catch your eye, and we'll move north towards Duxton.

End
12:30 pm
Flor Patisserie
2 Duxton Hill
Singapore 089588

We will end here, and those who wish to can enjoy Francis Theo's current exhibition of sketches done of Pulau Ubin.

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What I was busy with

Wood: Re-Purposed

Sketchwalk at Niven Road

Thanks Parka for the video of our monthly sketchwalk.

August Sketchwalk at Niven Road

This Saturday, we're visiting a quiet and lovely street, between Sophia Road, and Mackenzie Road.

MEETING POINTS

Start
9:30 AM
Wilkie Edge
- outside Starbucks

End
12:30 PM
Selegie Centre
- outside facing Mackenzie Road

The shophouses lining Niven Road are largely residences, with a few highlights such as Sophia Flats, the Khalsa Dharmak Sabha and a couple of intact Streamline Moderne Art Deco facades. There's also the David Elias Building just across from Wilkie Edge along Selegie Road, and the @Ellison Building at the Mackenzie end, slated for partial demolition.

Sketchers are also free to explore backlanes, and adjacent streets such as Wilkie and Mt Emily Road.

Architect and fellow sketcher Ian Tan has kindly volunteered to give a short background of the area and the mentioned landmarks during the session.

See you there!

National Day Sketchwalk at Esplanade

Coming Soon

Give these local tree trunks a life. Something brewing for the Art Gallery@GCV at Temasek Poly where I work. The next show will be on 21 Sep 2016, 7pm. Mark your calendar.

Harvest

 

I have another website on my pottery work but it was inactive for a long period. I am very pleased with the result of latest wood firing on 6 Aug 2016.

Manchester Symposium

Just came back to the office after a fantastic 7th International Urban Sketchers Symposium held in Manchester from 27 to 30 July 2016. Will be posting my sketches soon. Here are two group photos taken on the last day on 30 July at All Sanits Park just outside the Symposium venue, Manchester School of Art. Sadly I was not in the photo because I was still sketching on the 7th storey of the building capturing the skyline of Manchester.

Latest Happening at our Art Gallery

July Sketchwalk at Wessex Estate

While about 20 sketchers from Singapore are in Manchester to attend the 7th International Urban Sketchers Symposium, our local sketchers are going to Wessex Estate for the monthly sketchwalk.


START POINT
Wessex Village Square
9:30 am

END POINT
Blk 10 Woking Rd
Papergirl Studio
12:30 pm

The area only has one bus service – 191 – which has a frequency of 20 minutes, which may add a lot of time to your commute there. You can board it across the road from Buona Vista MRT Station, in front of The Metropolis.

BUS SERVICE 191
Timetable at bus stop:
http://goo.gl/pGCoL1
Route Information:
http://goo.gl/0uLzu9
Google Map of route to Wessex Village Square:
https://goo.gl/maps/cpax1C98SXC2

GCD2016

Cafe people sketch

I was on official duty last Saturday and yesterday evening. So I took a few hours time-off this morning to enjoy my brunch at my favourite cafe - Penny University at East Coast Road. I was facing this loving young couple with a new born baby and got an urge to sketch the people. Sketching really calmed my nerves and at that moment I really wished I could stay a little longer. Too bad I had to leave for work and left before the lunch crowd walked in. Oh yes, sketching helps us pick up details - the ladies including the waitresses were all having ponytail hair except one even if they come and gone.

LEGO-Themed Family Day at our Campus

I missed the monthly sketchwalk at Serangoon Garden because I had to be on campus for our next activity in conjunction with the LEGO exhibition. It was a fun-filled Saturday after discovering so many young budding LEGO artists. The LEGO character look-alike imitation contest was really fun with family coming together and created the characters such as Mermaid, Bandit, Wizard and Sailor. It was fun fun fun!

June Sketchwalk at Serangoon Garden

Sketch at the same spot again at Tiong Bahru

  

  

The top is the completed work and the next one was taken just before I apply colouring on location. I led a group of my colleagues and their families to Tiong Bahru and sketch. The ad-hoc sketchwalk was conducted in conjunction with the LEGO exhibition at the campus. Sum Kwan, the 5-year-old boy really impressed me with his drawing. He could identify shapes on the spot and drew with very confident lines. Paul's son who is nine, is also good and bold in his line work. I had so much to observe and learn from these children. The lease we can do is to encourage them to do more so they will continue to sketch, draw, paint and enjoy the process of mark making.

Featured on Tiger Tales Asia

I was featured in the latest article on the in-flight magazine of Tigerair called Tiger Tales Asia, May-Jun issue - http://ink-live.com/emagazines/tiger-tales-asia/2443/may-2016/#24

May Sketchwalk at Haji Lane

The Brick Collective - Tiong Bahru Edition

 
 
 
  

Everyone is talking about it, you have to see it at the gallery where I work. "The Brick Collective: Tiong Bahru Edition" a LEGO exhibition is at the Art Gallery@GCV, Glocal Connect Village at Temasek Polytechnic, come and be inspired. Three of them are Design graduates from different cohorts and I have the privilege of teaching two of them, Eugene Tan from Interior Architecture and Design graduated in 1995 and Andy Goh from Product and Industrial Design graduated in 2014. Wong Jun Heng, from Interactive Media Design graduated much later. LEGO brought them together. I am so proud of our TP returning talents.