Dating Cats on Rooftop 貓貓唐樓頂月下談心

I find rooftops of old buildings in nighttime always romantic, it's a place that you can breathe and overlook the city, everything busy and fast-paced is at a distant! 


Location:  imaginary location, somewhere over the Kowloon side, overlooking Hong Kong Island.

Vertical City 1 min 37 secs Central to Wan Chai 垂直都市 一分三十七秒 中環至灣仔

The photos were taken in a traffic jam on a double decker bus between Central and Wan Chai until my camera ran out of battery.

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.  

Street Theatre made with Bamboo 西貢天后廟戲棚

This one is an old sketch.  It was sketched at the Sai Kung Town Centre where the Tin Hau Temple (Sea Goddess Temple) is. At the time I did this sketch, a group of skilled bamboo scaffolding workers were busy constructing a huge street theatre using mainly bamboos as structural support. Every year, such theatre will be erected for a week and cantonese opera will play for several days, entertaining both the local public, the goddess of the sea and the spirits as well.   

A photoshop version based on the live sketch.

Marina in the afternoon 白沙灣的下午

Walked to a quiet residential area at Hebe Haven.  The Hebe Haven area has long been the docking place for yachts and boats.  

Sketching Boats

Location: Tui Min Hoi Village, Sai Kung, Hong Kong

Cold Day, Warm Cafe

Originally planned going out for a sketch session with a friend but the temperature plummeted, instead of going out, I went into a Starbucks, got a hot drink and just sketched what I saw in front of me.

Location: Sai Kung Starbucks, Sai Kung Town, Hong Kong