Watercolor Painting @ Buangkok Kampung

The last kampung in Singapore...

The atmosphere in the village was amazingly familiar...neighbors greeted one another...greeted the visitors...left their doors open...I am so thankful that I got to grow up in a kampung and I really rutted the day I was old enough and I told my mom no more going to the kampung..."I don't want to feed mosquitoes anymore!!!" were my actual words.

Ok ok...back to my work....

Before

I have to admit that the colors on the house came out very strongly because the first wash, I used a wrong color. After I got home, I used the correct color and tried to cover my mistake as much as I could.

Anyway, what I am satisfied with myself this time is:
1) Tried working with more details in the foreground.
2) Hinted details in the background and inside the house.
3) Exerted patience in waiting for the paints to dry and added a few shadows successfully.
4) Avoided using the same shadow color for the entire house.

After correction from Mr Ong

1) Top right corner, I left an irritating out-of-place shade of blue. (Kanna scolding from Mr Ong but I am SO HAPPY I made the mistake cos I got to watch Mr Ong paint the branches in from scratch!!!)
2) Mr Ong added more effective shadows on the house,
3) More shadows to the plot of green on the left.
4) Ground shadows from the plot of green on the left.
5) Darkening the wooden plank on the leftmost to tone it down and stop it from vying for attention from the house.

Wonderful. Many lessons learnt. Mr Ong also lent me a stack of children illustration booklets from the 80s. I am so going to scan them in and learn. You will be amazed how closely those drawings resembled the late Mary Blair. Illustrator for Disney's classic hit Alice in Wonderland and It's a Small World afterall.