Joo Chiat

Last Saturday, together with Urban Sketchers Singapore, we went to Joo Chiat neighbourhood. This area is famous for its rows of colourful shophouses often featured in tour books for tourists. Instead of sketching Koon Seng Road shophouses, I chose to sketch from Mrs Morgan's popular Roti Prata stall which I waited for 45 mins for my breakfast. By the time I finished my breakfast and Kopi-O, I only had around an hour to sketch the corner of Joo Chiat Road and Koon Seng Road. I finished 7 pages of pen and ink work in a new Moleskine.

So today, I Went back to do the colouring on location with a good meehoon breakfast and kopi-o dilo. (coffee without adding water). I didn't know Mrs Morgan's Roti Prata was closed on every Wednesday.

I did a sketch of the same view in 2010 here. The corner was a coffee shop, then a retail store selling storage boxes, then it was converted into a hostel, a co-working space and now, Grafunkt, an upmarket lifestyle shop.

Moleskine Japanese Album Large.
Size: 910 x 210mm