Alright, today I went to a few art supply stores to get some new art supplies which I have not use before. These are the tools that I will be using for my up coming Asia cruise trip sketches in End November. Feeling excited! As time is tight, most likely I will just bring the pen and sketch books along and will do the water colouring when back home.
I am currently working on the sketch at one of the streets at George Town Penang. Pencil drafting is always easier to work on before overlay with pen and ink.It will help on placement of objects and I can easily make adjustment on the sketch and anything wrong in positioning , I can erase it with an eraser. In order to protect the fibre of the paper, normally I will use the artist eraser which come in dough which are soft to work on.
I will share more after the completed sketch with colour.
This was the second time we went to the Sushi Express outlet near our home. We brought our youngest son this round and it was a long queue though the dinner was a bit early. Fortunately the food were fresh and we didn’t have to wait for the food as we just grab the plate from the conveyor belt. Food was reasonably priced at S$1.50 per plate . I would say this was a good deal and worthy as ingredients were all air flown from Japan except the salmons were from Norway.
And now it is time to do another sketch and water colouring.Food illustrations always seems difficult as they are always full with details. I am not fantastic with details drawing and I try to be more careful when come to this kind of sketches.
This was a recent challenging sketch I had done especially for the rooftop and the wall sculptures.Chinese temple is always full of details and I had simplified them here and some were from my artistic imagination. By the way, this was drawn from reference photo.
The colours I used is from mission gold watercolour 12 colours set.As the set does not have cerulean blue for the sky ,I replaced it using another brand which is the Daley Rowney Simply Aquawatercolour. That is a student grade watercolour set. At the end, I used some splashing technique on the sketch to spice up the effect.This temple is actually from George Town ,Penang. The actual photo colour was not intense and looks abit run down.So for this sketch, I applied more water to the pigment instead.
I will be going for cruising holidays end of November and maybe stopping by Penang for a few hours excursion.Hope I will have time to sketch more.
Today I have tried out watercolour on the previous sketch that I have drawn using the preppy disposable blue fountain pen. The nib I used is the fine 0.3 .
Notice that after applying watercolour, the blue drawn line seems to fade. All the while, I thought that this is waterproof ink pen. But in actual fact, this is consider as water soluble.So if you are expecting the outline to be solid colour, you may not want to consider this pen with the existing ink cartridge that came with it. I am not sure if this pen work with other cartridge or not.
It was one of the rare experiences to be sketching on a Kelong ( off shore fish farm). The weather was nice but not windy as I would expect around December period. This Kelong was located at western Singapore and as what I understand, it is becoming stricter guided by coastal police and nowadays they will stop any trespasser who try to step onto the Jetty.
We were lucky to be guided by my husband’s friend who is one of the fish farm owner. The main transport for the fish farmer is basically just boat.Everything on the kelong is simple. There’s no electricity , no water and no wifi and the flooring are made up of connecting wood planks. This was my boy first visit and he was really thrilled . And take note most of the time, children are no allowed to stay on Kelong. This may be due to safety purpose.
These are some of the sketches I had done .
The kitchen is exceptional small with simple equipment and utensils
There were lots of blue crabs and they were so fresh !
The kelong can be as huge as a football field. Every steps on the plank have to be extremely careful as there’s a tendency to have your foot caught in between the gap. All sizes fishes are kept in different partition as when the fishes are outgrown , farmer will move them to next partition .And when they are grew to a certain size, they will be ready to sell to supermarket or exported overseas and that is when the farmer will be the busiest moment.
I sketched this quite fast using the preppy fine nib. This disposable fountain pen is easy to use and I bought this from Tokyu Hand . I intended to colour this sketch soon. And that explained the empty bowl at the foreground. There should also be some items at the background , but I intend to leave it empty as I wanted to focus more on the people eating their meal. I am using monologue portrait , A5 size sketchbook. This is a 140gsm paper, however this sketchbook does not contain cotton. It will be a challenge to apply wet on wet technique on this sketchbook. Light washes are still acceptable but you may expect the paper to warp after a few layers.
Hello everyone! Finally I had launched my first blog. I am still trying to figure out the features and am relatively new to wordpress. My experiences on setting up with things running isn’t too bad and glad to have my webhosting company’s swift assistance whenever I hit with some issues. Well while still finalising my menu page, here I am to say a big HELLO to you if you are first time visiting my website. It is still very clean and blank LOL .
What I will do in my next few days onwards is to upload sketches that I have and trying my best to share on how I did my sketches and thoughts . Stay tuned.
