Sunflowers and Heliconias

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Seok, if I lived up to 100 I wouldn't be able to do what you are doing now. This drawing is so beautiful and delicate and full of life. Graceful! How lucky also to have found your former teacher and he is lucky too to have such a talented pupil.

Posted by Satu Vartiainen on Tue 18 Mar 10:17:41

What a brilliant drawing, love it.

Posted by karyl Quigley on Tue 18 Mar 11:33:55

Very nice work

Posted by Harry Sullivan on Tue 18 Mar 12:01:15

A very accomplished drawing Seok, I am always surprised when you mention your art teachers and the classes you go to as, as far as I'm concerned, you are a natural!

Posted by Christine Davies on Tue 18 Mar 16:03:12

Excellent drawing Seok!

Posted by Louise Naimian on Tue 18 Mar 17:15:00

I agree with Satu this is so lovely Seok, fabulous detail

Posted by Ros Patterson on Tue 18 Mar 17:29:56

Thank you so very much, everyone!

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Wed 19 Mar 05:20:44

A real beauty - you show great skill at this and hope to see more.

Posted by Michael Edwards on Wed 19 Mar 07:05:18

A real beauty - you show great skill at this and hope to see more.

Posted by Michael Edwards on Wed 19 Mar 07:05:19

This is a beautiful drawing, Seok. Just like the rest of your work, I like it very much. You can do everything, it is always a success!!!!

Posted by Mia Ketels on Wed 19 Mar 09:43:59

Perfection Seok, this is brilliant! So pleased I trawled back to see all the paintings I missed this last few days, this was worth it!

Posted by Carole Swingler on Wed 19 Mar 10:16:42

This is an extremely accomplished drawing, Seok, so I should be content that your drawing skills are very well developed. I also think you should be teaching the classes rather than attending them!

Posted by Thea Cable on Wed 19 Mar 12:07:34

Thank you so very much, Michael, Mia, Carole and Thea!

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Wed 19 Mar 12:28:33

Lovely work Seok and thanks for the helpful advice about the diptych - I would not have thought of that!

Posted by Debs Jones on Wed 19 Mar 14:48:27

Seok boy! You can draw...you have always been able to draw. I've seen your paintings which are excellent. If you can draw with a brush you certainly can draw with a pencil. So glad that you have renewed an old relationship and your drawing skills are going to be even better. Love this, like I do most of your work. Happy drawing!

Posted by Stephen Michael Law on Wed 19 Mar 15:17:18

Very impressive! Like all your pieces ! The tonal values make this so exciting and all the different shading marks. You always manage to produce brilliant work with all your differnt teachers . I look foreward to your next "lesson"!

Posted by Avril Soldani on Wed 19 Mar 17:11:01

Thanks very much, Debs, Stephen and Avril!

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Thu 20 Mar 11:19:37

Seok, this is brilliant, why are you beating yourself up about it. You can draw and very well too. Carry on the the good work!

Posted by Fred Elwell on Thu 20 Mar 15:32:27

I'm so envious of your talent Seok you can turn your hand to anything and should be giving lessons not taking them :) This is an excellent drawing.

Posted by Val Kenyon on Thu 20 Mar 16:29:56

Thanks very much, Fred and Val! Fred, I wouldn't have been able to draw this as accurately if I hadn't gone through Daniel's lesson on checking negative spaces, so I'm very grateful for the progress I made as a result of his classes. Thanks again for the encouragement.

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Fri 21 Mar 06:02:40

Hang on Studio Wall

13/04/2015

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I'd been wanting to do something about my drawing skills (or lack thereof) for a while, but it's difficult to find a good drawing teacher here in Singapore. The only drawing lesson I'd taken was about 8 years ago, when I first took an oil painting workshop with British artist, Daniel Scott, in Barcelona. In those days, I could paint by making shapes on the canvas, but couldn't draw to save my life. Daniel took me through a drawing exercise one afternoon and changed the direction of my art completely. From not being able to draw a line, he got me up and running to draw the skyline of Barcelona. However, since that time, I'd been getting by on my own. I was therefore delighted, a couple of months ago, to find Daniel now based in my neck of the woods. We re-established contact and he's been taking me from where we left off 8 years ago. After such a long layoff, I found the gnome drawing, which I posted last week, really difficult. Our second lesson, which resulted in this drawing, was all about how to build a drawing using only negative spaces. It was excruciating, but I found the exercise immensely helpful. I tell myself that in about 40 years, I'll get the hang of it, lol!

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