Another plein air - Emerald Hill, Singapore

Together with an artist friend, we went to paint plein air again last Sunday

This is another location that I've painted many times. The most recent one which i did more than half a year ago was a quarter sheet plein air and it was snapped up at the first listing on eBay.

The weather was perfect today and the strong sunshine is casting fabulous shadows all over the place, although it may not be visible from the location pic I took using my camera phone below.



Here's the finished painting... half sheet of Fabriano Artistico, painted with W&N, Rembrandt, Schmincke, M.Graham and Holbein Artist Grade watercolour paints.



The foreground is my own use of "artistic license" as I felt the road is too empty, so I added the foliage... not sure if it works well but anyway... guess what?!! A guy who came over to watch us paint, decided to buy both our paintings. This place is beginning to turn into my favourite hunting ground now.... or so I thought...

You see, he was so interested in our paintings but didn't have enough cash with him, so he told us to deliver them to him the next day, and he will have the money to pay us, so we gave him our namecards and left with our paintings. However, he sent me an e-mail the next day...

"Marvin,

I've decided against buying the paintings.

Thanks anyway."

Just like that, our hopes are gone! Looking at his address, he's staying on the top floor (penthouse?) of a posh condominium in town... So, I think financially, he should be very well-off and able to afford the paintings... but who knows? may be the wife said no..... oh well... better luck next time.

Anyway, critiques and comments on the painting are welcome as usual.

Plein air - Singapore River

It's a beautiful sunny day last Saturday, so I went out to paint again... and I'm running out of location to paint in Singapore LOL... and didn't know where to go, so back to my old haunt - Singapore River.

This scene is particularly interesting as it blends together the old and new of Singapore, with the old represented by the old Supreme Court with the emerald dome and the Asian Civilisation Museum on the right and the spaceship lookalike new Supreme Court and the Parliament House on the left.

Here's the location pic



There are many people including locals and tourists gathered around from time to time to watch me paint, luckily I held my nerves and didn't destroy the painting... :P

Here's the painting... Half sheet of Fabriano Artistico, painted with W&N, Rembrant, Schmincke, Holbein artist grade watercolour paints.



I have a problem with that ugly spaceship structure... it looks too fat and thick in my painting compared to the real thing... may be it's packed with gas and about to burst and shoot up into space...LOL... now you know why I hate painting modern buildings.

Anyway, critiques and comments are welcome.
Thank you!

Plein air - Malay Village, Sarawak River

I went back to my hometown in Sarawak, Malaysia (in Borneo island) two weeks ago to attend my cousin's wedding and managed to do one plein air painting one morning.

The scene is a malay village at the opposite bank of Sarawak River which flow through the heart of Kuching city. I was seated at the waterfront, on the other side of the bank, looking across the river. This is what I see...



This is me with my painting...



and here's the completed painting...
Half sheet of Fabriano Artistico, painted with W&N, Rembrandt, Schmincke, M.Graham artist grade watercolour paints.



I took about 3 hours to finish this. I think it's OK, but definitely not one of my best as I struggled to get a focal point from this composition. Anyway, I'm just happy to have painted something. Critiques and comments welcome as usual.