Hoi An Cafe 海安咖啡室

I arrived at Hoi An Cafe quite late and only managed to finish the sketch without putting any colour on it. I went home and coloured it before I forgot how it looked like and here's the result. Hoi An Cafe is one of the few remaining old Hong Kong style cafes which still retains its original decoration inside. Not spectacular but deifinitely nostalgic.

到達海安咖啡室已是下午兩點有多，畫完幅畫未上色但咖啡室要關門了，唯有回家趁未忘記畫面前上色。

A Quick Sketch at the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences 半小時速畫香港醫學博物館

Wall Trees, Sketcher and Stairs 城皇街上的樓梯、畫家同石牆樹

A fellow sketcher at work took advantage of the shade of the wall trees in Shing Wong Street.  These wall trees are magnificent!

一位畫友安坐城皇街石牆樹下作畫。

Sheung Wan Graffiti Artists 上環塗鴉高手

I went sketching with Urban Sketchers Hong Kong in Sheung Wan this afternoon.  Stuffy with occasional rain but the weather didn't affect our high spirit at all.  I walked around the neighbourhood of Sai Street and met a group of graffiti artists at work in a narrow alley.  Great sketch material so I settled down and did two quick sketches of them.  Rookie, a graffiti artist from Taiwan posed with my sketch of him.   Great work of art they were making!

今日下午我同一班香港速寫人去上環西街一帶寫生。行到西街附近一條小巷見到一班塗鴉高手獻技就坐底畫咗兩張速寫。畫完後來自臺灣的 Rookie 重賞面同我畫佢張速寫影相。多謝Rookie!

Painting Old Hong Kong 繪畫老香港

It's a quite a challenge to paint so many people scattered on the stairs.  Based on an old photo, the scene is probably Ladder Street, Sheung Wan.   Currently, I'm building the under layer of the painting.

根據舊相新畫的！地點應該喺上環樓梯街。今日正上緊畫的最底層。畫面人物眾多，睇怕都要分多次畫！

Sketching on Ladder Street 樓梯街寫生

I visited Ladder Street once more with a sketcher friend today.  This charming old tenement building here is vacant and no one knows what would be it's fate. To be refurbished or to be demolished just like so many others in Hong Kong?  

今日同畫友再到樓梯街寫生。此空置唐樓名運如何無人知！保留定拆卸?

At the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences 香港醫學博物館

Despite the cold weather, a group of 20 sketchers got together to sketch the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences today.  The building was of Edwardian style and was built in 1906 as a Pathological institute.  The building was declared monument in 1990 and in 1995 it was converted into the current Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences.  As I was late today, I saw my fellow sketchers already working when I arrived and I decided to include them in my sketch.  

今日天寒地凍，二十人齊集香港醫學博物館，齊畫這座建於1906年的愛得華式大樓。前身是香港細菌學檢驗所，大樓於1990年列為法定古蹟並於1995改為香港醫學博物館。今日到達時見大家正畫得興致勃勃，於是走到幾位畫友後方，順便把他們畫入畫中。

Old YMCA Headquarters, Hong Kong 必列者士街青年會

A merry group of sketchers assembled in front of the old YMCA building in Bridges Street this afternoon and sketched whatever they found pleasing.   I chose to sketch this handsome building which was built in 1918, the oldest of any YMCA premises in Hong Kong.  

天寒地凍，一班畫友齊集必列者士街青年會一帶作畫。我選了青年會大樓寫生。青年會大樓建於1918年，為全港最舊的青年會建築物。

Wall Tree at Pound Lane 磅巷石牆樹

This wall tree (Ficus microcarpa) thrives on this old masonry wall in Pound Lane.  However, its future is uncertain as the government is proposing to build the second escalator along Pound Lane linking Queen's Road and the Midlevels.

此石牆樹 （細葉榕）緊緊地抓住磅巷的一石牆。闊大的樹蔭為路人遮陰。可是政府如建造第二條行人電梯，石牆樹恐怕劫數難逃。

A Sixty-Year-Old Hong Kong Style Cafe 海安咖啡

An afternoon well spent! The cafe has been serving Sheung Wan for sixty years! The old wooden furniture, the high ceiling and the local delicacies brought back a lot of memory! Thanks Hoi On Cafe!    紅色木卡位、高高的樓底加上海安獨有的美點，就是一個悠閒的下午!

Centre Street Old Tenement Building 正街唐樓油畫

Oil painting with texture paste, foam boards and acrylic!

Day 1: Building up structure and volume with model paste and foam materials.
Day 2:  The coloring process took a whole day to finish.

Centre Street Tenement Building is an icon at the junction of Centre Street and Des Voeux Road. On the ground level there is also an old-fashioned wine seller, a gem in this part of the city.

上色用上一日。
正街與德輔道交界的地鏢唐樓。唐樓地舖是一間老酒行。每次路經必停步細看。

Painting in Progress: Sheung Wan Tenement Building 上環唐樓製作中

I spent a whole afternoon working on the modeling paste and foam materials that gave the painting a more three-dimensional feel.  Now I am waiting for the paste to get dry before I can start working with the colors.

上環唐樓製作中！待平底槳乾後就可以上色。

Construction Workers Resting in Shade 下午小休

A group of construction workers resting in the shade at Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, escaping from the hot summer sun.

一班建築工人坐在路邊陰涼處小休片刻。

Urban Sketchers: 30th World Sketchwalk, Hong Kong

This post was originally posted by Paul Wong, an urban sketcher from Singapore who is now stationed in Hong Kong


Below are sketches by Gary Yeung, Me & Jamaika

Today was our very 1st successful urbansketchers' sketchwalk here in HK and we were also glad to be sketching with everyone around the world on this World sketch day. We had 7 very excited sketchers gathering at the HK university east gate. We ploughed through a very old estate, looking at some very early walkup apartments and back alley. I was told the streets (Water street, eastern street, western street...) here are also one of the earliest roads to be named. Weather was cloudy and rather chilly but we had a good time sketching and getting to know each other.




 More from Paul on his Urban Sketcher Page

Sketches from Hong Kong for 30th World Wide SketchCrawl 七人上環四圍畫

Thanks Paul for initiating the activity.  All together, seven urban sketchers went out to sketch at Sai Ying Pun, an area populated with old Hong Kong buildings on a very steep slope.  

High Street Motorbikes 高街 電單車

A line of motorbikes lining quietly along High Street, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong

Many bikes are put on protective coats, seems like they are wearing raincoats.

Old Church on Steep Slope 西邊街 救恩堂

We gathered on this very narrow and steep Western Street, air was foul as large trucks stopped next to us from time to time but still we had a good time sketching.  A sketchbook, a pen and good company are enough to transform anything around into good sketching materials:)

Very Old Laundry Shop at Centre Street 餘樂里洗衣店

Possibly one of the oldest common residential building in Centre Street, it still bears the sign of a now closed laundry shop.  

Christmas Meets Fantasy! From Hong Kong

This one isn't a real urban sketch or drawing, but the street scene is based on photos I took in the Sai Ying Poon area over the Hong Kong side.  I added the bank of China tower as backdrop as well.   

Wish you all a Merry Christmas!