Visiting my favourite Sketcher in Singapore

 My favourite sketcher from Singapore, Don Low, posted a blog entry about my visit to singapore and of me joining the ad hoc sketchwalk organized by him! Don is a great inspiration to me.


 I am soooooo happy! And grateful for the kindness of Don and Edric in bringing Kuan Yew and me around Singapore, searching for art materials, browsing in artsy shops, and treating us to noodle mee pok and coffee! Below is the blog entry :

A Cheerful Visitor & Sketcher from Malaysia

Posted on August 2, 2011

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Ru Hui was the cheerful visitor and sketcher from Malaysia, to be exact from Ipoh, Malaysia. She is a prolific sketcher who have just spent 3 months backpacking in New Zealand @_@. On the way home, she decided to drop by our tiny island with her boy friend Kuan Yew (clear throat… not that KY, you know who). We had lunch at Tiong Bahru’s one and only Fishball Noodle restaurant, Hua Bee. Then we exchanged sketchbooks. I was pretty eager to thumb through her NZ sketchbook especially when I have already seen the pages from Facebook. After lunch I requested Ru Hui to draw something on my sketchbook for keepsake. While she was still deciding what to sketch, I suggested her sketching the fishball noodle auntie while she is standing beside her stove. I did a similar one earlier on.

Ru Hui and her sketch of the mee pok auntie

While Ru Hui was sketching, I stole a shot of her. LOL! She looked like a kid doodling on her sketchbook.

Later in the afternoon, we brought them to some quaint bookshops to browse, then to White Canvas for the Tiong Bahru gallery show, and finally to Straits Co. to get some art supplies. Ru Hui has always wanted to try the Hero fountain pen so she bought one for herself, as well as a brush pen and a bottle of Hero fountain pen ink.  She would be able to try out the pen when she came for a sketching and painting trip at One Fullerton. Here’s a shot of the event.

Sketchers @ One Fullerton
(End of Don's blog entry.)


This is the historic issuu publication, posted on Urban Sketcher, that introduced me to the wonderful works of Don. I remember staring at the sketches, totally mesmerized by each and everyone of them. I believe that this might be one of the biggest push for me to start sketching on location! 

Meeting one's favourite writer, or childhood idol is a lot of people's must do in life, and mine is to meet my favourite sketcher and see him sketch. And I 

did!!!!!!!! Thanks to facebook. This is my dream come true.

 

I have three folders of Don's sketches in my laptop( which wouldn't start after 4 months of non usage. sob) and i'd open them to stare at the sketches when I needed inspiration, or just felt like it. 

I owe my passion for sketching to Don, and many other sketchers worldwide. I hope that this passion will not die. =)