宜蘭。縣。巷

我在宜蘭縣的巷子外，看見陽光的明媚，祂顛覆了我的眼睛。我想如果我有機會住在這裡的話，我會天天和祂聊天。

I am standing at one of the lane of Yilan county, where I can see the soft sunlight. If I have chance to stay there for awhile, I will stand there everyday, enjoying the warm from the soft sunlight.

MUNGYO OP on 12' x 8.5' white paper.

台湾，宜兰：名家檳榔

This is one of the corner of Yilan county at Taiwan. That is my friend's shop, which selling areca palm (檳榔), Taiwanese favorite's desert.

MUNGYO OP on 12' x 8.5' white paper.

Armenian Street in Georgetown, Penang

Armenian Street is one of the historical street in Penang, where it was preserved with various famous heritage buildings. Cheah Kongsi is one of the building located at Armenian Street. If you are interested in knowing the history of Armenian Street, check out this page.


Armenian Street, Buncho Oil Pastel on white drawing paper

I remember I bought some print Penang building sketch postcard for my friend as a birthday gift. The sketch was done by charcoal for the buildings outline and with watercolor for foreground and background. I love those building sketch, which it inspire me to try this sketch.

First, I sketch the building with gray OP, but I purposely paint the flag, the round signboard and the streetlight with brighter color for the contrast to the old building because they are all newly added in recent years. Then, I apply pearl color on foreground for the buildings and background for the sky and clouds. With some marking done in gray for the darker parts of the clouds.

At last, I work out the outline with black, as well as adding gray and pear orange for the blends and shades. This is consider experimental, because I uses pale color for foreground and background but I express the buildings with dark outline. And I use less than 10 colors for the entire sketch.

Acheen Street and the Malay Mosque

The Acheen St. Mosque in Georgetown, Penang, is also known as Masjid Melayu Lebuh Acheh (Malay Mosque) was founded by Tengku Syed Hussain Al-Aidid in 1808. The entire complex is historically and architecturally important as it reflects the earliest Muslim urban community in Penang comprising of the Malays, Indian Muslims, Arabs and the Achehnese.
Quote from http://www.hbp.usm.my/townplg/heritage/acheen.htm.

The Mosque is located at the place near to Khoo Kongsi, which is walking distance.

The composition of buildings and the street is a challenge for me, I have no confident to sketch it directly with OP. With the help of colour pencil, I have done my initial sketch. It is easy to correct the mistakes on colour pencil compared to oil pastel.


My focus is to express the historical view on entire street, which I do not concentrate on the details in very fine manner.


Finally, I had completed the sketch.