HarbourFront Centre soon to be demolished

I bought a few packets of normal A4 cartridge papers 135gm when I teach at Brahm Centre. So I just brought a few to the official sketchwalk and did the splashing for the sky on the spot. I love the blue by Talents Van Gogh watercolour set. The rest are Winsor and Newton watercolours.

Cartridge papers 135gm
Size: 297 x 210mm

Vivo City

Its my Sunday duty to accompany dad and while waiting for him, I have some time to enjoy my tea break and sketch at VIVO city. I can see cable car far up in the air and bulb decorations nearer to the restaurant. They all become dots in my sketch, HA!

Good food and good beer

Brotzeit German Bier Bar and Restaurant at Vivo City serves very good pork knuckles, beer and sausages. The pork knuckle is very crispy, deep-fried on the outside and juicy on the inside. We ordered different types of beer too. The guy sitting in front of us was wearing a shirt with the big word "SWE10" and I had to sketch him. The table next to him had a baby and a stroller blocking the passage but it was OK, the place was very crowded anyway and I did see a few babies and their strollers. It was quite a complicated scene for a sketch but I liked the challenge.

Result of ad-hoc Sketchwalk at Vivo City

Architect for Vivo City is Toyo Ito. The building is basically a square box, so with the cladding outside, I feel that it is too decorative and heavy in its building typology. Interior with his signature linear curves features in bright green is comparatively more elegant that the exterior. The sky light cast a nice shadow to the otherwise white floor. Our design graduation show is right in the middle here in the sketch from 5 to 7 April, 2012.

sketching with friends

Sketching with friends at Vivo City, we had lots of fun. The sketch below was done at the crowded food court called Banquet in the basement floor, may be it was Good Friday holiday too. There were two ladies at this table then it came another two more senior ladies with their food. I added the lady on the left so you see lines on her head. Banquet is a halal food court so there are many Muslim women wearing hijab, or the headscarf. We later moved to Pacific Coffee at the upper floor of Vivo city. The European man with the beard was nice to let us share the sofa seat with him. I sketched him while he was reading the newspaper. He left his newspaper behind and our friend, Ban Pang said it's the sign to say "I will be back!" Benedick was sitting next to him so I sketched him to give the sketch a foreground.

X'mas Eve Sketchwalk on 24 Dec 2011

This morning, we had a X'mas eve sketchwalk at Vivo City, I did three sketches. Two on the giant X'mas tree and one on the ship "Logos Hope" - a one-of-its kind ship which sails around the world as a floating library and book store. The piece was presented to Drewscape as a X'mas sketch exchange among sketchers. He promised to give me a scan of the sketch of the ship later. The video is by Parka.

size : 254 x 178mm (10 x 7")


and here it is!

Christmas 2011 sketchwalk at Vivo City

Dear fellow Urban Sketchers and friends,

In conjunction with the closing of the Urban Sketchers Singapore: Volume 1 Exhibition at the URA Centre and also to celebrate this festive season the way we know best (through sketching, of course!), we have lined up a series of sketch walks for you!

1) First of all, we shall make a special return to Vivo City as we did for last year's Christmas sketch walk.

Venue: Vivo City's Sky Park Amphitheatre

Date: 24 Dec 2011 (Saturday)

Meeting Time: 9.30am

Show-and-Tell Time: 12.30pm

This time, we'll explore the Sky Park area, and sketch-able subjects include the giant Christmas tree, the huge rooftop wading pool, the various outdoor sculptures and installation artwork (including the Elephant Parade!), and also the nearby cable-cars, cruise liners, waterfront and ferry terminal facing Sentosa Island, as well as St James Power Station. And that's just the outdoor ones!

At the same time, we would like to reprise the "Sketch Gift Exchange" game that we had last year, in which every sketcher who turns up would participate by drawing a special piece (in any of your own preferred style, paper and size), submit it into a box or bag, and during the show-and-tell session, randomly choose ANOTHER fellow sketcher's work as a Christmas gift to bring home!

So please remember to bring along your own single-sheet sketch paper (or card) in preparation for this special exchange.

We could also buy your lunch and bring it over to the Amphitheatre for the show-and-tell session at 12.30pm sharp, and picnic at the same time.

After that, we should then all make our way back (by bus *) to the URA Centre by 1.30pm to have a special closure of the exhibition, and also to help remove and collect back our sketches on display, as well as purchase any of the frames used in the display if so wish.

There might be special announcements after that, so do keep yourself available till around 2.30 or 3pm if possible.

* We could take the public bus services 80 and 145 to URA Centre, or alternatively, if we could get around 30-40 sketchers, we would hire a special charter bus via URA, for S$40 and split the bill. Do leave a comment under this post with your name to indicate your interest to share this charter bus.

2) Some of us who might not be celebrating Christmas at home and might like to do it with fellow sketchers, could join a special Christmas Day sketchwalk!

Venue: Orchard Road (from Ion Orchard to Tudor Court)

Date: 25 Dec 2011 (Sunday)

Meet: 1pm at Orchard MRT Station (Ticket Office)

Show-and-Tell: 3.30pm at Tudor Court

3) With the Monday (Boxing Day) being a public holiday too, some of us would like to take this opportunity and sketch over at Pulau Ubin.

Venue: Changi Point Ferry Terminal
Date: 26 Dec 2011 (Monday)

Meeting Time: 10am
Show-and-Tell Time: 3pm and beyond.

4) There will also be a final and official last-Saturday-of-the-month sketch walk on New Year's Eve. So while keeping an eye on the updates, do keep that morning free to join us too!

WATCH THIS SPACE!
In the meantime, see you all there, and have a Merry Christmas!!!

For "watch this space", check USKSG blog for update!

Chocolate Bar

Max Brenner, the chocolate bar at Vivo City, has the warm and yummy chocolate fudge called Souffle that cost S$16.00 - expensive but just right for three of us with Macchiato Double and Cappuccino Frappe served in Alice cup, hug mug and kangaroo cup; aesthetically pleasing and well designed mugs. Like most of my cafe and people sketches, people came and gone so I had to sketch in quick lines and completed it with memory. My daughter sitting right in front of me became the model in this sketch.

X'mas Sketchwalk at Vivo City

The upcoming sketchwalk in December will take place on X'mas day!

This will be our last sketch walk of the year! All are welcome to join us for our upcoming sketchwalk happening next saturday, 25th Dec, 2010. We will be meeting at the main lobby of Vivo City between Bakerzin and National Geographic stores at 11am. Interesting locations to sketch will be the water fountain area, Vivo's main facade, the cruises, the view of Sentosa and the roof top pool garden where there is a huge Xmas tree! Finally, we will meet 2pm at Harbourfront's 3rd floor Food Court for a show and tell session plus food and drink of course.

For this special X'mas sketchwalk, Edric Hsu will be in-charge and if you are lost in the city on the X'mas day, call Edric at 96358132.