recent works
One is on ginger inspirations, one on the wetlands and the third on my travels in Thailand.
Photobooks November 14, 2009
One is on ginger inspirations, one on the wetlands and the third on my travels in Thailand.
Another fun medium for landscape sketching August 4, 2009
Mudflat at Main Bird Hide
In this sketch I did at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, using Letraset markers. You will note that a variety of gradation and texture quality can be achieved. The pigment ink from a marker pen is somewhat difficult to modulate and one has to be careful about the duration and pressure of contact between pen and paper. I managed to produce enough variety of strokes and intensity of pigment by deliberately controlling the contact time and pressure. Try these two aspects out separately before working on your painting.
Happy sketching.
Tham Pui San 4 August 2009
Wetlands Alive October 31, 2008
It will showcase 40 oil paintings of this mangrove environment, depicting glorious perspectives of this habitat and presents a message of hope and encouragement for nature and us. Two paintings will be auctioned to raise funds for the Garden City Fund and Rainbow Centre, a charity with a mission to enhance the lives of children and youths with special needs by providing early intervention programme and special education schools to help them develop to their fullest potential.
Tham Pui San 24Nov.08
The Fallen shall Thrive May 3, 2008
About four years ago I did a sketch of this fallen Sonneratia Alba, apparently struck by lightning on Christmas Eve 2003.
The old sketch was executed with a 2 B graphite pencil, showing details of the fresh breaks on some roots and masses of earth still clinging stubbornly to the tips of the roots. Clumps of foliage on the higher branches laid so helplessly on the ground still attached, waiting perhaps to continue its wondrous food making process of photosynthesis. It attracted my attention then simply because of its unusual state brought about by an act of nature and I wondered if the tree could overcome this seemingly cruel strike.
Four years on it has found a new way to survive and thriving well. My faith in Nature held strong.
Two large clusters of lively green foliage now grow on its prone trunk, like a fish with 2 large dorsal fins in tandem. How it will continue to grow would be an interesting phenomenum to know and I wonder if it can still bear fruits like the others do.
This present charcoal sketch is dedicated to those who need to make do with changes caused by the inevitable.
Take heart, Nature and Time do wonders when we have faith.
Pui San 3 May 2008
Paint along with Pui San March 15, 2007
The next session will be on 27Dec2009. This is the last session for the year and we will sketch at the mangrove boardwalk shelter 3 from 0830 to 1130.
The view at this location has Johore in the background and our wetlands in the opposite direction and the migratory birds are around so there are lots to see as well.
The session will also cover basic water colour, and pencil sketching. You can bring any material you like.
See you on 27 Dec 2009 from 0830 to 1130.
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For details please call the Visitor Centre at 67941401
Tham Pui San, 28 Nov 2009
Come September February 21, 2007
Come September
11” x 15”
Pastel on sanded card
While seeking out interesting elements to compose this scene, I came across this group of egrets busy foraging the mud bed for food. Ordinarily their appearance would not mean much. But on reflection we can take comfort that a year has passed and they made a comeback to the reserve despite untold disturbance to the natural environment caused by us humans.
Pui San
Sep 04
Path to somewhere February 19, 2007
Path to somewhere
11” x15”
Pastel
I discovered this path after a year’s service with the reserve and fell in love with it the very moment I set eyes on it.
It’s a classic composition, directing movement towards the bend to somewhere promising, and an essence of a place where you might have been before.
Pui San
May 04
