Last Saturday I was sketching near Sengkang Floating Wetland, it’s our family’s weekend routine going to Sengkang west riverside park for a short outing. We have the waterway nearby home,…
Posted on February 23, 2021
My artist friend Alvin Mark Tan was exploring about the history of Nutmeg trees in Indonesia & Singapore and when I told him about a few Nutmeg trees along Sengkang…
Posted on December 31, 2020
Here are the studies together, all done with the same set of hues – Lemon yellow, cad red, Quinacridone rose, Pthalo blue, Burnt sienna, raw umber + Permanent white. Though…
Posted on September 30, 2020
Studies of waterway in gouache, size 2.5″ x 3.5″, which one do you like, why?…
Posted on September 6, 2020
Pond at Sengkang Riverside Park!…
Posted on August 4, 2020
“Overgrown!”, a quiet morning at Sengkang Park Connector, 5″ x 7″, gouache. Bushes & grasses overgrown during circuit breaker days! sketched this from a photo taken during our morning walk…
Posted on June 4, 2020
Testing gouache in Strathmore visual journal provided for my workshop last week, it takes gouache very well, get such high quality materials for free when you sign up for 2…
Posted on November 21, 2019
Kampong Buangkok…… full of charm, Gouache on Hahnemühle sketchbook.…
Posted on May 15, 2019
Legend Cafe, Anchorvale CC. The swimming complex is closed every Monday, so the place looked quiet yesterday. Love the pastel coloured chairs and the row of trees …
Posted on April 30, 2019
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Posted on April 29, 2019
Sengkang floating wetland in yesterday’s rain, 1 hour sketch.…
Posted on April 27, 2019
Beadembroidery centrepiece in detachable beadwoven rope embellished with swarovski crystals, handmade.…
Posted on March 28, 2019
Probably my first sketch of the year, settling down slowly after home renovation followed by eye infection etc.…
Posted on February 20, 2019
Ritu’s Handmade presentation journal for MakeX Robotics competition 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcb7B7spWPw&t=15s…
Posted on January 18, 2019
Kids are in their swimming lessons and this is my-time 🙂…
Posted on January 12, 2019
A blissful morning at Kampong Lorong Buangkok, the last surviving village in mainland Singapore. Kampong Buangkok Sketch, Gouache on paper Kampong Buangkok Sketch, Gouache on paper…
Posted on August 29, 2018
Sengkang West Park Connector Sengkang West Park Connector sketch in Gouache Sengkang West Park Connector sketch in Gouache…
Posted on August 21, 2018
Punggol-Sengkang Riverside Park….…
Posted on August 16, 2018
A community garden in Fernvale, Singapore. The aunty taking care of the garden told me she comes in morning and evening everyday. She is still here now (10:30am) when I’m…
Posted on August 16, 2018
Some more Light study series……. Landscape sketches Sengkang, 2018…
Posted on June 1, 2018
Sharing about my painting experiences in MOE Kindergarten @ Springdale!!…
Posted on March 7, 2018
Study in gouache, 5″ X 7″.…
Posted on March 1, 2018
Sold!…
Posted on March 1, 2018
Bamboo and Red ribbons both bring good luck, a very common sight here in Sg……… Block 325B, Anchorvale Link.…
Posted on February 20, 2018
Lovely atmosphere and festive mood in the air….. today at Chinese New Year market, Rivervale Plaza……A4, Gouache on paper. GONG XI FA CAI!! 😀…
Posted on February 14, 2018
Workshop on “Electronic lantern making” on saturday 10th Feb at LINK@AMK, 9:30-11:30am for kids aged 6-12 yrs. Learn to design a simple working electronic circuit with an On-Off Switch and…
Posted on February 6, 2018
today while waiting to fetch my son from school……..…
Posted on February 5, 2018
Wishing a very happy new year 2018!!Here’s a tiny bite of what my little friends created in 2017!!!…
Posted on January 4, 2018
A tiny tonal sketch at Swimming complex.…
Posted on November 14, 2017
Some of my recent Gouache sketches and Oil paintings (including on location and studio sketches) are on display at Sengkang Public Library’s “Community Wall” from November 1st to 30th. please…
Posted on November 6, 2017
“Three Men Show”, an art exhibit in Sengkang Public Library by Mr. Leong Chye Chye, Mr. Phua Koon Tong and Mr. Paul Ting is going on currently in the library’s…
Posted on October 29, 2017
A Gouache sketch I did two months ago………Anchorvale Drive 319A.…
Posted on October 6, 2017
In kids art workshop at Sengkang Public Library yesterday,…
Posted on September 24, 2017
Can’t resist sketching this little flower pot. I was watching these tiny red sparkles complementing with the green foliage and was waiting to give a try.…
Posted on September 22, 2017
A corner of the garden in Anchorvale Swimming Complex. Sketched for an hour there when kids were in their swimming lessons, completed later at home.…
Posted on September 18, 2017
This sketch for me was a challenging game of tones……..…
Posted on August 21, 2017
Tried a sketch of our flats here in Sg. Block 314A, Anchorvale Drive…
Posted on August 7, 2017
Testing the pen gifted by Ritu on Mother’s day. He said roses were finished in his bookshop and so he bought me a pen to sketch 😀…
Posted on May 21, 2017
A well-maintained community garden at Sengkang East Way near Block 325C, with lots of herbs, Spinach varieties and flowering plants.…
Posted on May 18, 2017
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Posted on May 6, 2017
This for today…….…
Posted on May 4, 2017
Lemon yellow, Cadmium Red and Cerulean with Titanium White.…
Posted on April 29, 2017
Todays’s……….…
Posted on April 27, 2017
An unconventional upcycled garden near Block 314b, Anchorvale Drive.…
Posted on April 25, 2017
A Sunday morning……..…
Posted on April 23, 2017
A sneak peek of yesterday’s work at location. The sketch needs one more visit to call it completed. It’s raining here now, so waiting for the day to get it…
Posted on April 21, 2017
My kids have swimming lessons here every Friday. I definitely need more practice in drawing people, this for now.…
Posted on April 13, 2017
Another study outdoors while waiting for my kids from school…….I like the cool green hue of the leaves, there are plenty of these trees around my neighborhood with pretty purplish…
Posted on April 10, 2017
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Posted on April 7, 2017
Steps in working with Gouache. I used Cadmium yellow, Cadmium Red and Cerulean Blue with Titanium white.…
Posted on March 25, 2017
I don’t know why I’m always interested in sketching trees and foliage 😀 Tropical Palm in Sengkang West Riverside Park, done last month.…
Posted on March 23, 2017
Which one you like? old vs new……Glad I captured the old look last year in it’s brink of change.…
Posted on March 23, 2017
The Sengkang Compass Point Mall had been closed for renovation for nearly a year and came back with a fresh look with a new name, Compass One. With more residents…
Posted on March 22, 2017
Community garden near block 324D, had an hour before picking up kids from their schools.…
Posted on March 21, 2017
“Foliage”, 6″ X 8″, Gouache on Saunders Waterford CP(NOT)…….done from a reference photo. I have limited my colours on my palette to three plus white for all my sketches/paintings since…
Posted on February 6, 2017
Kids Art @myartsandcreatives 2017: Wish my friends a very Happy and prosperous Lunar New year 2017!! A handmade pop-up card using old/unused Ang baos 🙂…
Posted on February 1, 2017
I’m proud to design and collaborate the Pongal-Jallikattu themed Kolam/Rangoli with fellow residents during the “Pongal Harvest Festival 2017” jointly organised by Fernvale IAEC and Anchorvale IAEC. Thanks to all the…
Posted on January 21, 2017
Wishing you a very happy and prosperous new year from all of us!! Kids floating Rangoli with lights, Singapore…
Posted on December 31, 2016
Little hands at work,…
Posted on December 30, 2016
Automated signalling man has been in operation since a few weeks in the nearby the construction site. The robot is dressed up quite convincingly to look like a traffic controller,…
Posted on November 8, 2016
Here’s a detail from a sketch (in progress) I did yesterday…..among the two traffic cones, one has a change in tone from light into shadow (showing convincing turning of form)…
Posted on November 3, 2016
Some random sketches…… Sengkang west waterway.…
Posted on September 12, 2016
View from my Kitchen window. I’ve done the same view before in charcoal, details in the link below: http://myartsandcreatives.blogspot.sg/2015/05/urban-sketchers-singapore-volume-2.html Reason for sketching this again in Gouache is, the construction materials…
Posted on August 31, 2016
It was very interesting to sketch this unused door in the material storage place…but my motto was to show convincing light and shadow across the patch of grass.As often said,…
Posted on May 10, 2016
Tried to capture the dappled light on the shed, however could have used saturated color in there. I used a limited palette of Cad yellow, cad Red and Prussian blue……always…
Posted on April 28, 2016
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Posted on April 27, 2016
A typical void deck in Singapore apartments, an open space in ground floor with benches, bicycle parking racks and tables, some apartments even have small shops. This is the front…
Posted on April 21, 2016
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Posted on April 16, 2016
Started our drawing lessons with Dinosaur subjects – Brachiosaurus and Stegosaurus…….also learning how to add depth and volume with charcoal shading……..then came the interesting texturing lesson on getting realistic skin…
Posted on March 24, 2016
Houses near Gerald Drive have wonderful backgardens facing the little canal that extends from the Sengkang waterway, these are just on the opposite side of kampong Buangkok…..completed today (2 sessions…
Posted on March 9, 2016
We frequent Sengkang Riverside Park and Mushroom Cafe on Sunday afternoons and went last Sunday too. After lunch, kids and hubby headed to fly kites and I hopped from tree…
Posted on March 7, 2016
“Compass Point” mall in Sengkang is undergoing renovation currently and temporarily closed for about 1 year. People here miss the Public Library, Supermarket and other eateries. This is how it…
Posted on March 2, 2016
Implementing the colouring techniques(blending, gradation, scratching, layering) learnt so far…………. This was given to the students as home assignment and I was very surprised to see that they combined some…
Posted on February 25, 2016
Fire and an Ice dragon in chalk pastels!! It’s rather easy to blend colours with chalk pastels….though a very messy medium, chalk pastels are remarkable in portraying the glowing light…
Posted on February 19, 2016
Houses near Gerald Drive have wonderful backgardens facing the little canal that extends from the Sengkang waterway, these are just on the opposite side of kampong Buangkok…..here is one I…
Posted on February 17, 2016
Oil pastel lesson 1 is all about colours and blending….in contrast this lesson combines the technique as well, each student has to choose different colours for each layer and I…
Posted on February 11, 2016
A colouring lesson in Oil pastels……..…
Posted on February 10, 2016
Water Sports Centre, Anchorvale…..A4, Gouache…..the foreground was too big in the original sketch, I cropped some of the foreground here.…
Posted on January 21, 2016
Sengkang Hockey stadium is a part of Sengkang Sports and Recreation Centre, two important events have been held here in the past few years – Hockey tournament of 2010 Youth…
Posted on January 14, 2016
School holidays and I’m going walks with my kids around waterway……saw a couple of monitor lizards, Kingfishers and everyday I’m sketching 360 degree views from the same shady spot under…
Posted on November 26, 2015
Today’s morning walk & study………Sengkang floating wetland, Gouache.…
Posted on November 24, 2015
Sengkang West Floating Wetland, 9″ X 12″, Gouache sketch……..this was done earlier this month when the air was clear for a day between continual hazy skies 🙁…
Posted on October 27, 2015
“We Draw Singapore Together” exhibition jointly organised by Temasek Polytechnic and USKSG is officially open now, the exhibit runs till 12th August in Glocal Connect Village, Temask Polytechnic. Displayed are…
Posted on June 26, 2015
Sketched this in 3 sessions of 45 mins each, this Methodist Church is besides my HDB block….it has nursery and kindergarten classes, my son studied here for the past three…
Posted on May 26, 2015
View of Sengkang West Avenue overlooking The Seletar Mall, Fernvale……..from the lift lobby of my HDB.…
Posted on May 14, 2015
Morning light, Sengkang West, 9″ X 12″, oil on canvas.…
Posted on May 4, 2015
Painting in Oil after almost 1 year, again my favorite subject, the hues could have been subdued little more, definitely need improvisation in colour handling, ……..”Couple”, Oil on canvas, A4…
Posted on April 29, 2015
Tongkang LRT, Charcoal on paper………sketched this from the walkway connecting nearby HDB and carpark. The word “Tongkang” refers to a kind of boat, most of the places in and around…
Posted on April 9, 2015
A glimpse of me and my Rangoli in Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council Newsletter (Issue 44 Jan-March 2015)……..I thoroughly enjoyed creating this “SG 50 & Pongal” themed Rangoli single handedly 2…
Posted on March 30, 2015
A storage unit in Sengkang West Avenue.…
Posted on March 30, 2015
A Happy accident! I sketched my first session of St Anne’s Church on last Friday and kept my charcoal sketch on the table…..my 2 yr old little daughter has sprayed…
Posted on March 21, 2015
My Charcoal sketches and Oil paintings are on exhibit in Sengkang Public Library “Wall of Art” from 1st March to 31st March, I welcome you all! Please drop by to…
Posted on March 2, 2015
Sengkang Riverside, Charcoal on paper…
Posted on February 25, 2015
Sketch of Arulmigu Velmurugan Gnanamuneeswarar Temple, Sengkang East……..Charcoal on paper. We go there often and the sounds and smell of the place make my mind relaxed and peaceful. This is…
Posted on February 24, 2015
Uncle Lim’s shop, Tongkang LRT…
Posted on February 13, 2015
My “SG 50 and Pongal” Rangoli today at Sengkang CC SG 50 Rangoli, Singapore SG 50 Rangoli, Singapore SG 50 Rangoli, Singapore SG 50 Rangoli, Singapore…
Posted on February 1, 2015
Sketch of Puat Jit Buddhist Temple in Sengkang, Charcoal on paper, A4 size. I did this sketch for 5 days, 1 hour per day. The architectural details are a treat…
Posted on January 30, 2015
Landscape Sketch in charcoal, A4 size…
Posted on January 28, 2015
Sketch of my neighborhood tree when my daughter is in her playgroup, charcoal medium on paper.…
Posted on January 20, 2015
Sketches of Sengkang Riverside, 9″ X 12″, Charcoal on paper.…
Posted on January 6, 2015
View of Compass Point mall from Sengkang CC.…
Posted on October 12, 2014
Charcoal sketch of Park connector near Tampines Expressway, enhanced the darks later at home.…
Posted on October 6, 2014
Very refreshing to sketch this lively place in between two high rise flats, Anchorvale Street, Sengkang West.…
Posted on August 1, 2014
Sketch of void deck of my flat where I wait to pick up my son everyday. Charcoal and pencil on paper.…
Posted on July 23, 2014
Plein air painting yesterday at Sengkang west Park, 9″x 12″, oil on canvas. Ng Song Hoy Theresa’s painting! We missed our painting group, Madhavi and Vivian.…
Posted on May 26, 2014
View from my kitchen window, shows AnchorvaleCC/stadium, Sengkang west waterway and LRT overhead bridge. I managed to sketch this before any new construction suddenly sprouts up in between! Charcoal on…
Posted on May 23, 2014
Plein air oil painting in Sengkang West Riverside Park….. Madhavi, me, Vivian, Theresa!…
Posted on April 10, 2014
Sparkles, Sengkang Floating Wetland, 9″ X 12″, Oil on canvas This is a studio painting from a previous on location study to capture the white herons, as seen from Sengkang…
Posted on March 19, 2014
Anchorvale CC Swimming Complex, Sengkang.…
Posted on February 26, 2014
Waterway, 9″ X 12″, Oil on canvas…
Posted on December 27, 2013
An 1 1/2 hour study ( on Saturday) in oil in the bird-watching spot of Sengkang Floating Wetland, can see lots of White Herons on the trees. They keep coming…
Posted on December 9, 2013
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Posted on December 3, 2013
Here is the plein air painting I did today, the sky is overcast, so the light is cool and no much sharp or crisp shadows. en plein air 17/11/2013, 9″…
Posted on November 17, 2013
This plein air painting is done today morning along Sengkang west riverside, comfortably in shade under a bridge. en plein air 16/11/2013, 9″ X 12″, Oil on canvas…
Posted on November 16, 2013
Monochrome Study, 11″X 16″, Watercolour…
Posted on October 29, 2013
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Posted on October 29, 2013
Sketch of Puat Jit Budhhist Temple in Anchorvale Walk.…
Posted on October 16, 2013
Riverbank, 9″ X 12″, Oil on canvas…
Posted on October 12, 2013
Study of temple in Jalan Kayu in oil paint, four temples are here together one Buddhist and three Taoist temples, got only 1 1/2 hours to paint there, done with…
Posted on October 8, 2013
Sketch of Brewbaker’s in Anchorvale CC Sengkang.…
Posted on October 8, 2013
Sketch of ice cream uncle in my neighborhood when having a leisure walk with my kids, means I now take my sketchbook along wherever I go, thanks Urban Sketchers for…
Posted on October 3, 2013
Kampong Buangkok, 9″ X 12″, Watercolour on paper …
Posted on September 22, 2013
Summer, 9″ X 12″, Oil on canvas This…
Posted on September 22, 2013
These are the studies done in Sengkang West Riverside park.…
Posted on August 25, 2013