A 2-hour event (1pm-3pm) at Singapore Art Museum (SAM), Glass Hall.
Initial booking was from 2pm - 4pm.
The management decided to start my session 1 hour earlier few days ago.
Good too. I can go home earlier, to get ready for the Christmas dinner at home later.
The title of this event is Christmas Open House.
Usually they won't open the Glass Hall (or SAM?) to the public, except public holidays (just like the Istana). That was what the management told me.
The last time I sketched in Singaproe Art Museum was for their SAM 5th Anniversary Bash. Can't remember how many years back, and that was about 6 hours per day, and 2-3 days in a row. I still have that T-shirt the event organiser gave me.:)))
In fact, I only saw this program list when I was about to leave.
Didn't notice that there were 2 sessions of Xin Yao (新谣) performance.
Those songs like 細水長流, 戀之憩, 秋心赋, 水的话, 讓夜輕輕落下, 你的倒影 brought back many teenage memories (yes, almost 20 years back), though not sung by the original artistes. My drawing speed was slightly slowed down because of these nice songs. So much memories flashing in my mind suddenly.
The venue - Glass Hall.
My table was on the left side, not setup yet though.
One of the highlights - Finger print art.
Before I finished sketching this boy, the queue list was filled up.
That was fast!
If you do notice, I am back to sketching in ink.
More comfortable with it, though I didn't bring my caricature samples in ink again. Hahaha....
Don't think they mind or whether they notice the difference in medium in the first place.
(I displayed caricature samples in pencil, instead of in ink )
I enjoyed sketching her features. Pretty distinct!
He's easy to sketch.
This lady too.
The nice songs made these caricatures turned out good. Or was it that my mood was good because of the songs. Could be.
The last one for the day.
Should be a good ending, if not for a woman making a fuss.
She complained that I shouldn't let them write down their names in the queue, if I cannot take in so many. I told her I have written down on the queue list that it 'ends at 3pm', and I have told those people who wrote down their names subsequently. If I have time, I will draw more, but it was not confirmed that they will get their caricatures drawn.
In addition, my job today was to sketch , and not to manage the queue. I can't be telling everyone that, when I need to concentrate on my drawing.
She complained to the management eventually, but thank goodness, the latter ignored her.
The management (lady) later apologised to me for the fuss.
Wah! Not her fault in the first place.
Told her it was not the first time. I have seen so many such people in my 14 years of doing live sketching for events. There will always be the last one. The following one either disappointed, asked me to draw more, or kicked up a fuss like that woman. There has to be an end somewhere. Best cut-off time is to end at the time when I am engaged till.
She told me that she didn't expect the response was so overwhelming.
Previously, their Open House events were quite quiet.
If she expected of such response, she would engaged 2 caricaturists, as proposed by me initially.
Finally, I have a glimpse of the 2 Xin Yao singers, whom brought back my long neglected teenage memories.
Nice encounter at SAM.
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