Outdoor Painting - Plumer Road, Singapore

Javier is 4.5 months old now and he likes to put his hands into his mouth... a natural habit of babies but with the saliva and heat, rashes have developed around his cheeks and mouth since Sunday :(

I haven't done any outdoor/plein air painting for about 3 weeks as I have been busy with work where our whole department was required to work over 2 weekends for our company's annual reorganisation project.

Now that it's over, I went out for plein air painting last Sunday with a group of watercolourist friends. We chose this old shophouse at the corner of Plumer Road in Singapore, just a stone throw away from Little India.

I painted this building about a year ago but at a different angle. So, I thought I'd choose another angle to paint this time.... and I think the composition is much more interesting.

This is where I'm seated.

I chose to paint a tighter composition to fill the buliding into 3/4 of the paper,
to give a more intimate closeness between the viewers and the painting.

... and here's the finished painting where I took 3 hours to paint most of it on location, and finished off the detailed bits and pieces at home.

It's half sheet of Fabriano Artistico (14" x 21"),painted with Winsor & Newton,
Rembrandt and M.Graham Artists Watercolour Paints

Here are some close-up shots of the painting.

Hope you like it... comments and critiques welcome as usual. :)

At last, I got to paint something....

I've been pretty busy at work for the whole of October especially the last two weeks as I was involved in a project where I had to worked everyday including Saturday and Sunday. I'm glad it's finished now, over...completed! yippee!

Now, what will a mad watercolourist do when he reached home, tired from working his socks off? Well, of course he played with his 4-month old son, rocked him to sleep and then took out his watercolour gears and painted away....

This is done at home - a riverside scene at Boat Quay in Singapore. I've painted this area many times but never at this angle, so I thought I'll give it a try.

It's half-sheet of Fabriano Artistico Rough, using mainly W&N and Rembrandt Artist Paints.

Here's the final painting.



... and here are a few close-up shots.






Comments and critiques welcome as usual.

Well, to thank you for reading up till now...here's Javier looking rather happy...
I think he's trying to say "Daddy, give me that brush!" :D