The sketching day started on top of the Chinatown Complex car park which provided a superb view of the morning's laundry activities in the purple and white Kreta Ayer Heights HDB block. I should come back at the weekend where there will be even more pants and socks on display.
I strolled through the market to New Bridge Street for a hasty scribble at the Art Deco building which belongs to the Poon Yue
Association. Once the sun comes over the roof,
there is no shade, so to avoid turning into a pork scratching, I
wandered a few paces to the People's Park complex for a third scribble.
Although I was out of the sun, the humidity in the pedestrian bridge meant that that moist patches appeared on the paper from dribbles of sweat. Sometimes I disgust myself.
The last sketch of the day was in Keong Saik Road where the Tong Ah Eating House has re-opened as the 'Potato House' bar and restaurant. No more kaya toast, runny soft boiled eggs and luke warm coffee - it now includes a burger bar, a lounge called Studio 1939 and a rooftop garden. Just what the area needed.
A very nice lady stopped to chat as she descended from a taxi and told me to go inside to look at the decoration which is the work of the Australian artist David Bromley.
As I was soaked in sweat, I decided to leave that for another occasion. I was hot, clammy, hungry and thirsty but I'd had another lovely day pottering around Chinatown.
Tomorrow, I have plans to sketch from the top of the Pinnacle on Duxton Hill.
The last sketch of the day was in Keong Saik Road where the Tong Ah Eating House has re-opened as the 'Potato House' bar and restaurant. No more kaya toast, runny soft boiled eggs and luke warm coffee - it now includes a burger bar, a lounge called Studio 1939 and a rooftop garden. Just what the area needed.
A very nice lady stopped to chat as she descended from a taxi and told me to go inside to look at the decoration which is the work of the Australian artist David Bromley.
As I was soaked in sweat, I decided to leave that for another occasion. I was hot, clammy, hungry and thirsty but I'd had another lovely day pottering around Chinatown.
Tomorrow, I have plans to sketch from the top of the Pinnacle on Duxton Hill.
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