Arty logs

Thoughts, doodles & watercolour paintings

[scottlava]

“You're the original anomaly!”

[michelledesa]

Last year at around this time I visited Paris for the first time, what an amazing city! I thought it would be extremely touristy but it was so much more than that. Musicians and bookstalls by the Seine, crepes infront of carousels playing French nursery rhymes, more grand than I thought possible and so much art and history! So not to be cheesy but Paris will always be a good idea to me ;)

Back to the painting, I’m actually reasonably happy with this one, a painting of the Tridou Haussmann restaurant building which is very representative of a popular style of Parisian architecture from my observation.

[michelledesa]

Been swamped lately, so back to painting after quite a while! I’m not used to ink drawing with no pencil work, so a ton of mistakes with this one midway, but ran with it ... Ink and wash is definitely one of my favourite styles in watercolour but still figuring out how to get it right. This is from a photograph of the Musikverein building taken on my recent trip to Vienna.

[michelledesa]

Charming little winding side street in Rome, from a photo I took last year.

[michelledesa]

Trying to pick up tips from some process videos so here's a quick lamp painting I did following along with one ..

[michelledesa]

And another dutch house :D (the bottom of the page got horribly warped because I lazily painted without tape!)

[michelledesa]

A quick sketch and rough painting of a house I see from my window.

[michelledesa]

This week is a painting of one of the many nice building facades on Las Ramblas from my recent trip to Barcelona. 

[michelledesa]

Delft patterns

[michelledesa]

Random doodles last week from our recent trip to Barcelona, structures on the roof top of Gaudi’s Casa Mila (La Pedrera) 

[michelledesa]

Another quick street lamp i did last week ..

[michelledesa]

Missed last week, back to painting some street lampposts, here’s one of the nice ones all over Amsterdam. Details directly with a brush so pretty rough >.<

[michelledesa]

Did a fun, very quick, rough sketch & painting this week, this one is a house i see from my window. The trees coming alive with spring make Amsterdam’s streets so so pretty!

[michelledesa]

Last week’s painting is Tong Heng’s egg tarts and a traditional Singaporean breakfast of kaya toast, runny poached eggs and kopi at Ya kun kaya, to add to an illustrated city travel guide I’m working on!

[michelledesa]

For week 8 I did another illustration to add to my travel guide, this is the Singaporean special - Chilli Crab 

[michelledesa]

For week 6 & 7 I did an illustration and painting of Peranakan houses in Singapore’s ChinaTown, plan to use these in my long time pending illustrated travel guide project .. Next up will be some food illustrations to add to that guide.

[michelledesa]

This week’s illustration is Steve Harrington my favourite character from Stranger Things Season 2, which was awesome btw. The type turned out quite off, but  I am happy with the painting improvement!