quiet street on a hot Sunday

Too busy at work as the new semester has just started. I have been sketching but have not been posting on USK blog for a while. Oct sketch walk at Clarke Quay was fun last Saturday and it gave me energy to continue to do this sketch on Sunday in the Singapore River vicinity. It was a hot Sunday and a very quiet street on the weekend. However, I am sure this place would come alive at night with the nightclubs and bars in this area.

The corner iconic building was built in 1938 by Ho Kwong Yew, a local architect in an art deco modernist style at that time. Archipelago brewery now occupies the ground floor with a very open concept. I also love sketching the colourful city car parking signs on the right.

photos of "Scenes, Seen" exhibition

Nearly a year after the debut of our book Volume One and its companion exhibition, Urban Sketchers Singapore returns this year with a very compact, super-casual exhibition only six days long. The exhibition is at Galeri Utama as an Archifest 2012 fringe event, the exhibition will let fans of the book and the group see what We had been up to since last October. Thanks to Parka, here are more photos of the exhibition from 26 to 31 Oct 2012.

all are welcome

October Sketchwalk

Archifest 2012 sketchwalk group

We had an ad-hoc sketchwalk organised in conjunction with the Archifest2012 at the Fort Canning Foothills or Viridian House. It was a hot and humid day but we had fun sketching together. Thanks Parka for this group picture. You can see other photos here.

Boon Tat Street

Corner of Boon Tat Street and Amoy Street on a quiet Sunday morning. So quiet that there was not a single car in front of me. Near the lone tree is the icon of this area with its "karang guni" meaning "knick knacks" corner. Huge recycle items covered with big canvas laid quietly next to the end wall of the old shophouses within the chain-linked compound. Even old bicycles are stacked and chained to the fence. Old rag and bone men and women are seen carting pile and pile of corrugated cardboard to this corner on weekdays - a century old and dying breed of merchant in Singapore.