Museum Affandi

Another small sketch at Museum Affandi. I believe these people I sketched were connected to Affandi family. The hanging butterfly was red but I forgot to add in the correct colour later.

You can read all about Affandi at https://www.affandi.org/

August Sketchwalk this Saturday

We are going to meet at Singapore Art Museum's entrance as the starting point for Saturday's sketchwalk. Similarly we are meeting back at the same place for our show and tell at the end of the sketchwalk.

Since we are still in the month of Aug, entrance to the museum is free. You may choose to browse SAM for things to sketch or you may sketch the museum itself. For anyone who is more adventurous, you may wander along Waterloo Street and pass Middle Road to sketch at Sri Krishna Temple and Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple too. Or head straight to St Joseph Church located along Queen Street. At the junction of Waterloo Street and Middle Road, you may find the Courtyard and the building of Sculpture Square interesting too. There is no short of subject to sketch.

The suggested route can be seen on the map attached below.



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Hari Raya Aidilfitri

Watercolour is not allowed in the museum, only pencils/pen. I added some quick shades to record the lighting before our show and tell and went back to the museum to add more lines. Darker watercolour shades were then added at home. I also added the stories on the artifacts in the sketch plus the entry sticker which read "Treasures of the Aga Khan Museum, Architecture in the Islamic Arts". With that, I wish all my Muslim friends Hari Raya Aidilfitri!

result of January 2012 sketchwalk

National Museum exterior and interior. It was another great turnout for the urban sketchers Singapore group. We were there at 10am and visited the Dream and Reality Exhibition which featured the collection of the world renowned Musée d’Orsay. Most of the exhibits were small paintings, photographs and drawings by the realists, impressionists and post-impressionists artists whose names were rather unknown to us in Asia. The only take away for me was to see the original paintings by my favourite artists, Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin. Even Van Gogh's famous "Starry Nights" only caught my attention for about 2 mins and I left quickly for sketching. Perhaps I should spend another day just to go through the exhibits again without sketching in mind. Then again, I had been to Musée d’Orsay in 2004 so the setting and ambience was entirely different.

From the website, it said "The exhibition explores the reaction of man towards modernity at the turn of the century from 1848 to 1914. The changing social and industrial landscapes of Paris in early modernity forced artists and photographers to rethink their approach to the visual world around them. Their varied responses generated new ways of depicting reality and a proliferation of styles."

Jan 2012 Sketchwalk this Saturday

This saturday 28 Jan, we will be sketching inside AND all around the National Museum of Singapore. we will also cover the fort canning park which is just behind the museum. It's free and easy so you can chose just the museum or both locations. We will meet at the museum's main porch (or around the front) at 10am. We will then spread out to any part of the musuem we want. It is the museum's open house that day, so you may also visit and draw in any of the galleries for free (see below).

We will meet back at the museum's main porch at 1pm where we will gather for "show and tell" and then head for lunch. See you there!