Marvin's Watercolours and Stuff: Glorious 39

Just wanna share with you some of the photos taken during Singapore Watercolour Society's 39th Annual Exhibition 2008 - Glorious 39 held two weeks ago from 26 to 29 September 2008.We had quite a good turnout, good crowd on the opening and over the weekend, the standard of watercolour works are getting better and better each year, and we also organized the 2nd Singapore National Junior Watercolour Competition for children aged between 10 and 18.

On 27 Sep, my former teacher and mentor Mr Loy Chye Chuan did a 1.5 hours watercolour demonstration showing the audience how to paint a sliced watermelon, a bananna, a tree, a crack on a concrete floor and ended the demo with a quick seaside scene painting.

The following day on 28 Sep, while the whole Singapore is witnessing the first Formula 1 night race, we're busy with another demo where Mr Seah Kam Chuan, did a 1.5 hours watercolour demonstration. He painted a rural riverside scene, showing how to retain the white of paper using masking fluid and creating texture using salt.

Here are some of the pics...

The exhibition venue at Ngee Ann Cultural Centre, Teochew Building

The crowds on the opening day

Guilding the VIPs while they view the artworks on display

Explaining my artwork to the Guest-of-honour, Dr Cheryl Baumann

Dr Baumann with the winners of the Junior Watercolour Competition

Paintings by winners and finalists of the Junior Watercolour Competition

Mr Loy Chye Chuan's demo

We used a video camera to shoot and show what he's doing onto a projection screen

Mr Loy answering queries from enthusiastic watercolour fans

Results from the 1.5 hours demo

Mr Seah Kam Chuan's demo

Using hair dryer to speed things up...

Notice how he used salt technique for the background trees and masking fluid to leave out the white paper for the poles, leaves, boat etc.

The finished demo painting in 1.5 hours...

This is the only photo I have taken with my painting as I was too busy attending to the guests on the opening day, and the next two days I was the assigned photographer for the 2 demos.... therefore only managed to snapped this one.