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I’ve been going full steam with my watercolors ever since the Chinatown sketchwalk with Urban Sketchers (Thanks for the photo Tia!). I had an extreme sense of deju vu upon entering Minju and Jeff’s living room after the sketchwalk when I realised it was the former Casual Poets cafe! Was sad to hear it had closed down as it was such a cosy little space, but it was just perfect as this couple’s home.

Anyways, I’m finally posting up a selection from my first almost fully watercolor sketchbook! More to come! I’m doing quick sketches and practicing rendering skin tones on the bus/train these days, it’s really tough mixing accurate colors but I’m having lots of fun trying! Please click on the images to view them at full size.

I was just looking through the B6 sized sketchbook I kept from August to October last year, and I was struck by how much more interesting the drawings in it were compared to the ones I’ve been doing on the train these days..

The drawings on the left are from that sketchbook, and the rest from my current one. Somehow it seems like the element of fun has been lost, and I think it’s largely due to the fact that I switched from using a pen to pencil instead.

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