Spoilt for Choice

Paintings that tell a story have a special kind of magic about them. This is a captured moment in time with the lady doing her shopping (and probably haggling as well!), all done with your usual skill and sympathetic palette.

Yes, again I agree wholeheartedly with Thea, delightful.

Juicy, spicey and delicious

What an interesting shop front. The lady balances the composition nicely and you've managed the fruit and veg so well without going into too much detail. Well done.

Agree with Diana, the lady makes the composition interesting. Very beautiful and well done.. Seok Yam,.We went to the Mojave Conservation Area, Death Valley National Park and the Red Rock Canyon Conservation Area. The spring wild flowers were plentiful since we had so much rain this year...

I do so admire your watercolours..in fact no matter what medium you choose...you do so well. Once again another wonderful painting.

A very interesting little building, I do envy your travels around the world. Keep posting your beautiful scenes.

An other beautiful painting Seok! You have traveled a lot and did I understand that you are now living in Singapore? This is such a wonderful way to meet people from all over the world and we are all looking at the same pictures sometimes at the same time. Amazing!

It is a lovely composition and interesting too!

This is beautiful Seok, lovely composition and palette colours.

Lovely scene, both interesting and intimate, as Thea says, you have really captured a moment in time.

Well done Seok, a wonderful composition, and is the customer on her mobile, sign of the times eh! And thankyou for saying I was an inspiration for you I' m vey flattered.

tres belle aquarelle...tres vivante!!

Gorgeous

This is beautifully observed and painted Seok , shall we see more of Singapore ?.

Thank you very much, everyone! I am always so encouraged by you. Satu, in answer to your question, I was born in Singapore and now live here. I spent a number of my school years in Europe and the States. And yes, this is a nice forum where many of us may be from countries divided by a common language, but we still share a common interest in art! Carole, I don't travel as much as I would like, but before I learnt to paint, I was an avid shutterbug. Therefore, though it looks like I travel all the time, many of the paintings are from my photos taken over the years. Fred, your paintings are very much an inspiration because they caused me to revisit some places I would have overlooked with a fresh eye. And William, not sure you will see more of Singapore anytime soon, because while I am full of good intentions, I hate sitting in the sun with passers-by gawking at my half finished paintings!

Lovely to read all about your travels and I agree about painting on site! White paper that blinds you and paints that dry in two seconds not to mention passers-by!! This is a beautiful little work - so full of colour and interest, I love it.

A beauty! - so you just went to Little India and did some work! wow! I would love to know how long it takes you to do one of your paintings as you are so prolific and the quality of your work is so good. Did you complete this on site? most interested.

Thank you very much, Avril! Avril - I am soooo with you on plein air painting! The blinding white paper that obviously blights artists whichever part of the world they're in, the paint that won't behave and the unwanted passersby who are oblivious to my best death stare! The only difference in Singapore is that, because of the humidity, the paint that won't dry for 20 hours! Annette, thank you very much for your very encouraging comment! It took me about 4 hours for this one. I find that with plein air painting, sometimes I "get it" and sometimes it's a total disaster in the making. Yesterday was a good day, when everyting seemed to fall into place and I finished the painting on site. I adjusted the intensity of the blue on the awning when I came home, but that was it. However, I am just totally inconsistent (probably because I don't paint outdoors consistently) and there are days when I spend 7 hours out there with nothing to show for it.

Well Seok you definitely "got it" in your four hour session in this painting and am impressed that you completed it on site despite the gawking passers by which would certainly send me scuttling away to finish at home! And everyone has good days and bad days whether with plein air or back in the studio but whatever time we spend painting (even with nothing to show after 7 hours!) is never a waste of time - there is always something to take away from it!

Another lovely work!

Thank you Annette and Tony! Annette, I usually have more bad days than good when it comes to plein air painting! And as for those dastardly passersby, I now usually go with another artist so I don't scuttle away when they inevitably make their appearance. It's called finding false courage in numbers!

What a gorgeous little painting Seok and having only just discovered it and read your write up to it! How typical as that that we can completely miss great subjects that can be local to us until something or someone does or says something that makes us open our eyes to the local possibilities!