watercolors and illustrations by April Y.
I just came back from Hong Kong but I already want to go back again! :D Managed to do quite a few things, including visiting the Studio Ghibli layout designs exhibition (It was awesome!!). Also joined Sketch Hong Kong for a culture and heritage sketchwalk around Causeway Bay. I did more than 30 sketches during the trip, most were done while eating or waiting for food :)
Went to KL and Seremban for a short trip last month. We arrived at the Larkin bus terminal around 2:30pm on that day, and bought tickets for the 3pm bus to KL. However, the bus didn’t take off until almost 4:45pm!! It seems that there were too few people on the bus so they keep delaying while trying to get more people to get on the bus… They even pretend to count the number of people on the bus and took our tickets so that we cannot get off the bus or get refund! How ridiculous…. I drew the bus terminal building and the bus next to us while waiting…
Drawing on the road… only managed 1 page…too tired and irritated after waiting for 2 hours…
Delicious Thai dinner in KL the next day
Sketching around Seremban old town for an afternoon…
On the bus from Seremban to JB, there was only an Indian lady other than us. We were relieved that the bus took off on time, only to find out later that we were happy too early – the driver didn’t take the usual route to highway right after leaving Seremban, instead he took some weird route and we ended up at Rembau! Funny thing is, the Indian lady was originally from Rembau, and her family drove her all the way from Rembau to Seremban in early morning so that she can take the bus to JB! As there were no one at Rembau, the driver took us to Tampin, where he was able to pick up 1x passengers finally. Buses in Malaysia are just too unpredictable… Draw this at the Tampin bus terminal.
Little India is one of the liviest places in SG, it is so sketch-able that I keep going back… I sketched these back in May when parents were in town and we took them to shop and sketch around Tekka market, I finally found time to add in the color earlier this month..
Sketched the Central Fire Station from Funan Mall with a brush pen… the ink bleeds badly when watercolor was added…
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This is a cafe near the Sculpture Square at Middle Road, these wooden boxes outside the cafe caught my eyes…they grow all kinds of herbs there…
This is the David Elias building at the junction of short street and middle road. It was built in 1928, repainted in 2002! Read more here.
This is the Presbyterian Church on Prinsep Street near LaSalle. I sketched with a blue watercolor pencil and added the color later at home.
It was very hot last Sat, Dad and I joined the USKSG to sketch at Queenstown.. We went late and only managed to sketch the church right outside the mrt station.. as we missed the morning briefing, we didn’t know they changed the show-and-tell location to the community center until Pat came to get his car and kindly offered us a ride to the CC! We did another sketch outside block 47 after show-and-tell before heading home…
Finally managed to join the April sketchwalk at Bishan… I was drawing the Bishan Park from the McDonald .. in the comfort of air conditioning.,,
The highlight of Feburary is my first ever oversea sketch trip with the UrbanSketchers Singapore members at Bangkok, Thailand. It was a 2-day event organized by the Bangkok sketchers as part of the community festival that celebrate a heredity area next to the Chao Phraya River. I am impressed by the hospitality and the organization of the BKK sketchers. I enjoyed the experience very much and would sure be back to BKK!
