Dharma Ashoka: Sketches from the Shoot

We had a photo shoot for our teaser for Dharma Ashoka at TFA Singapore. It was the weekend before the 6th International Urban Sketchers Symposium. A few sketchers from all over the world who arrived early for the symposium stopped by to sketch the scene.  Welcome to TFA (front row) Marc Holmes, Liz Steel, Laurel Holmes, Amber Sausen, Daniel Green, (back row) Chris Ng, Dawn Lo and Andrew Yeo!

These are by Marc Taro Holmes, from Montreal, who was one of the instructors at the symposium. Marc is an amazing sketcher and teacher who taught sketching People in Motion. 

Liz Steel is an urban sketcher from Sydney, an architect and is also one of the instructors at the Symposium. She taught pointless perspective and is the online teacher behind Sketching Now! 

Marc's wife, Laurel Holmes, is a professional photographer who took fabulous shots! Here are some of them that she has graciously shared with us.

Here are sketches by Amber Sausen and Daniel Green from Minnesota. Before they left Singapore for the next leg of their journey, they allowed me to take some shots of their work. Thank you! 

A very fast and prolific sketcher, Andrew Yeo from Singapore came a few minutes before we finished and yet whipped this out in time when we were shooting the monks. 

Thank you so much for sharing your work!

DHARMA ASHOKA: A Transformative Journey 

27-29 AUGUST 2015, 8PM

TRCC Republic Poly

To collect invites, get in touch with TFA SG: 

6535 0509

admin@tfasg.org

www.tfasg.org

20 Havelock Rd, 01-01 Central Square 059765

Dharma Ashoka. 7 Days to Go!

Counting down the days before the production goes up on stage.
7 days to go.. A peaceful sandstone Buddha from Orissa.

Invitations are available upon request.
This show has no admission fee. Donations are welcome. Invitees are encouraged to give generously in support of the arts.

You may reach Temple of Fine Arts Singapore at
6535 0509
20 Havelock Rd, 01-01 Central Square 059765
www.tfasg.org
admin@tfasg.org

Musings From an Urban Sketcher

This year's international symposium was in Singapore, the country where I currently reside. I had a unique view of the symposium as I was recording what's happening at the event in sketches.

From a trigger happy photographer to sketching what's going on, I saw the importance of each perspective as we all see the world one sketch a time. urban sketchers style, i gathered what was shared via the #usksingapore2015 hashtag to show some of the posts from everyone in one go. with different media, different paper formats and different hands contributing to the experience, it's one big sketch party at the little red dot!

Enjoy! See you online and at the streets :)

*credits to everyone who shared their sketches via the symposium fb page with the #usksingapore2015 hashtag. I hope it's ok that I compiled them to show them side by side with others.
*music by Herbie Hancock, Imagine, The Imagine Project.

Dharma Ashoka: Sketch by Andrew Yeo Kh

The weekend before the Urban Sketchers International Symposium, a few sketchers from different parts of the world dropped by at our Dharma Ashoka photo shoot at Temple of Fine Arts. Andrew was one of them. He is a very prolific urban sketcher from Singapore.  He arrived the latest during that day but whipped this out in less than 30 minutes! Thanks for sharing your sketch, Andrew. Appreciate it. 

Urban Sketchers Symposium!

It was an amazing experience being one of the correspondents for the 6th International Urban Sketchers Symposium that happened in Singapore last 22-24 July 2015!

Here are the posts that I did in the four days... 

http://www.urbansketchers.org/2015/07/usksingapore2015-day-1.html

http://www.urbansketchers.org/2015/07/day-2-usk-singapore-2015-fun-continues.html

http://www.urbansketchers.org/2015/07/day-3-usksingapore2015-time-flies.html

http://www.urbansketchers.org/2015/07/usksingapore2015-its-wrap.html

Dharma Ashoka: How Graceful Can A War Be?

 

Yesterday I went to a rehearsal of Temple of Fine Arts Singapore's Dharma Ashoka dance drama. They were working on the war scene. It's amazing how movement can be so poetic and graceful even in the context of war. Must give it up for these dancers working out their routine and how their action/reaction and personal exploration of movement become the choreography.  

This production is happening on the 

27-29 August 2015 at 8PM, TRCC Theatre, Republic Polytechnic. 

If you haven't gotten your invites yet, you can get them at 

Temple of Fine Arts Singapore

6535 0509

20 Havelock Rd, 01-01 Central Square 059765

admin@tfasg.org

www.tfasg.org