This is Oromo Coffee at Shaw Towers, Singapore. It's a nice place to chill. The air-con is very cold. There wasn't any customers when I drew this.

The ink lines were added after watercolour was added. I was using the Winsor & Newton Desert Collection of watercolours that mentioned in a previous post. It's good for sketching cafes because of the many warm colours included in the set.

The watercolour paper is Saunders Waterford 300GSM Coldpress.

This afternoon, I was drawing by the side of the Singapore Art Museum.

What attracted me was basically the silhouette of the sky made by the building. By the way, the sky wasn't that dark, although it was cloudy and going to rain. The shadow was added from imagination to give the sketch a bit more depth.

I'm trying out the Waterford watercolour paper for the first time and I really like it. The cold press surface absorbs water well, and brings out the texture of watercolour beautifully. The paper is a bit off-white which I'm still getting used to.

Sharpie Extra fine, Waterford watercolour paper, Schminke watercolour pan

Sharpie Extra Fine, WN watercolours, Stillman & Birn Epsilon sketchbook.

This is at one corner of Raffles Hotel from Seah St. It's a rainy day for sketching and the watercolours took a while to dry.

Colours used: French Ultramarine, Burnt Sienna, Perm Alizarin Crimson, Winsor Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Yellow, Viridian.

WN watercolours, Uniball Jetstream, on Fabriano 12.5 by 9.5 inch 200GSM watercolour paper

For today's sketch, I tried to use as few colours as possible for mixing. So I used

• Yellow Ochre
• Perm Alizarin Crimson
• French Ultramarine
• Burnt Sienna
• Viridian

Mixing green with French Ultramarine and Yellow Ochre results in a very dull green that's almost usable. Having Viridian is quite convenient. I also used Cadmium Yellow and Cadmium Red for the metal of the lifting crane.

I've a comment on Facebook asking my approach to this scene. With any complicated scene, patience is the key. The slower you draw, the more accurate your drawing will be. Of course, it will have to depend on the amount of time you have. As you can see from my lines, I was rushing quite a bit to finish this within 2 hours.