BELOW
Notre-Dame Cathedral
Basilica of Saigon, Ho
Chi Minh City, Vietnam,
by Tay Thain Lin
(Singapore)
Black waterpoof ink and
watercolour, 2018
TOP RIGHT
On board a two-week
Asian cruise, by
Zhu Hong (China)
Digital sketch, Samsung
Note 10.1 (S Pen), 2016
BOTTOM RIGHT
City Hall, Ormoc City,
Philippines, by Achilles
“Uhky Uhky” Estremos
(Philippines)
Watercolour, 2018
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tablet is so convenient to use,” the 49-year-old
says. “It is small, light and portable, and I love
the bright, solid colours of the ‘ink’. I can also
draw anywhere and at any time, even when it
is all dark around me.”
Oten, the objective of the sketchwalks
is capturing historic or disappearing scenes.
Recently, on 5 August, some members of the
Hyderabad group of urban sketchers in India
joined a two-hour heritage walking trip to
the Public Gardens (Bagh-e-Aam), the oldest
park in the city, built in 1 84 6 by the monarch
Osman Ali Khan. Sotware solutions architect
Faraaz Farshori, 30, comments, “As co-founder
of USk Hyderabad, I love organising activitiesre | asian artists
that add value to the artist community in
my city. Our collective aim is to make the
currently reclusive art scene here more
collaborative and inclusive.”
Occasionally, the artists band together in
the objective documentation of signiicant
events. During the Hong Kong “Umbrella
Movement” in October 2014, for example,
members of the Urban Sketchers Hong
Kong as well as the now-defunct Sketcher
Kee groups camped out in areas such as
Admiralty, Causeway Bay and Mong Kok
to record the events as they unfolded – a la
“camera people”, but with pencil and paper.
he Umbrella Movement was the period“The mobile tablet is so
easy to use. It is small,
light and portable, and
I love the bright, solid
colours of the ‘ink’.”
Zhu Hong