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Thursday, July 14, 2022

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Thursday, April 01, 2021

I was on leaves last weekend since it was Poly's vacation and I went to continue my sketch at Marina Bay Sands. This is work in progress from Oct 2020 when you could see the two towers at Liang Court. Today there are still there but much shorter.

Sunday, August 09, 2020

Happy 55th Birthday Singapore

I spent a family weekend staycation at Marina Bay Sands 45th floor to do a Singapore skyline piece to remember a special National Day 2020. It was done over 2 mornings.Happy 55th Birthday Singapore.
Size : 750 x 280mm
Medium : Ink and Watercolours on Arches

Monday, August 03, 2020

Process 2

Paper: Arches
Size: 750 x 285 mm

Sunday, August 02, 2020

Process 1

Sunday, March 29, 2020

Work in Progress

Work in progress. I had two weekend staycations at MBS and Sentosa. I locked myself in the hotel rooms and sketched. I will upload the final pieces when I get hold of a scanner.

favourite art quotes

"I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death." Degas

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." Albert Einstein

"The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting." Van Gogh

"I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious." Andrew Wyeth

"I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies." Le Corbusier

"If people knew how hard I have had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all." Michelangelo

"From the time I was six, I was in the habit of sketching things I saw around me, and around the age of fifty, I began to work in earnest, producing numerous designs. It was not until after my seventieth year, however, that I produced anything of significance. At the age of seventy-three, I began to grasp the underlying structure of birds and animals, insects and fish, and the way trees and plants grow. Thus, if I keep up my efforts, I will have an even better understanding when I am eighty, and by ninety will have penetrated to the heart of things. At one hundred, I may reach a level of divine understanding, and if I live a decade beyond that, everything I paint-every dot and line-will be alive. I ask the god of longevity to grant me a life long enough to prove this true." Hokusai, postscript to One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji [translated by Carol Morland]

"The artist is primarily a visual person. I have always believed that there is no essential difference between the basic visual relationships that concern the fine artist, the graphic artist, the industrial designer, and the architect. The difference is in the degree of complexity of visual organization demanded by each situation. Beyond that, there are the materials and techniques of each area. I am convinced that there is a visual discipline suitable for all of these areas. It is based on the exciting concept that there can be order and structure to the organization of visual expression." Rowena Reed Kostellow

"I've always rated doodles as a method to capture or generate solutions to a creative problem. I also doodle in meetings and although refused to be intimidated into giving up, I always felt very slightly guilty. No one ever asked me to actually stop. I suspect they were caught between the belief that I wasn't paying attention and the desire to enjoy the final results. Anyway its good that some scientist thinks it helps retain information. Why do scientists tot up the numbers and announce the result like they've discovered something new? . . . Most creatives I know are aware of the value of doodling and many have given thought to the mechanics and psychology behind it. None, that I know anyway, felt the need to publish an academic paper though." Alan Scott

Thursday, July 14, 2022

A sketch from MBS in June

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

A new piece

Thursday, April 01, 2021

It's Vacation!