Watercolor portrait of a Singaporean woman.

A3 size individual portrait done from photographs.
Medium used: Watercolor on white paper.
Client's purpose: Personal gift.

Portrait & caricature artist in Singapore

Water-colour portrait of an Indian couple.

A2 size portrait of a couple done from photographs.
Medium used: Watercolor on white paper.
Client's purpose: Anniversary gift.

The client requested a portrait for his parents to be done with water colour.

Portrait & caricature artist in Singapore

Portrait of a little girl.

A3 size portrait of a little girl.
Medium used: Watercolour on white paper.
Client's purpose: Birthday gift.

This piece of A3 size artwork was scanned using an A4 size scanner. That's the reason why there is a joint line in the middle. Of course the original hand-drawn artwork was a perfect piece.




















Portrait & caricature artist in Singapore.

Portrait painting done from photograph.

A4 size portrait painting.
Medium used: Watercolor on white paper.
Client's purpose: Personal collection.

The client did this portrait to keep as she thinks that a painted portrait can last longer. I would say it's true if she frames it up properly...

Portrait of an Indian movie star.

A4 size portrait of an Bollywood Star done from picture.
Medium used: Watercolour on white paper.
Client's purpose: Birthday gift.

A birthday gift from a father to his grown up daughter. I supposed this Indian actress is her favorite star. The father, Dilip, likes my watercolour portraits & had done quite a number previously. He told me that his daughter was studying abroad & would like to send this special gift to bighten her up.
Upon collecting this artwork, he told me that I got the resemblance of the actress spot on.

Portrait of Dr Balaji.

A3 size portrait of Dr Balaji, the Health Minister of Singapore.
Medium used: Watercolour on white paper.
Client's purpose: A gift from the Ministry of Health.

The client wanted a 'Black & White' portrait with some backgrounds but requested the ribbon to be in red colour & the Ministry's logo to be in blue so that they stand out. They liked the watercolur medium after seeing some of my previous watercolour works at my shop.

Individual portrait done from photograph.

A4 size portrait of a young lady.
Medium used: Watercolour on white paper.
Client's purpose: Birthday present.

My regular client Dilip loves my watercolour painted portraits so much that he did 5 pieces of himself on the first time he engaged my service.
The subject of this portrait is his daughter who was studying abroad then. I would say he's very demanding in terms of quality. Whenever he comes, I would feel very pressurized to produce what he thinks is good enough to his expectation. Thank god, he is happy with all my works so far & I will continue to give him the best of me as long as I'm still able to draw...

Couple portrait.

A3 size portrait of a couple done from photographs.
Medium used: Watercolor on white paper.
Client's purpose: Anniversary gift.

This portrait was done from 2 separate photos merged into a portrait b'cos the client couldn't find any photo of them taken together & it was meant as a surprised gift.

Watercolour painted portrait done from photo.

A4 size portrait of a girl done from photo.
Medium used: Watercolour on white paper.
Client's purpose: Personal collection.

This portrait was done from an old black & white passport photo. The client wanted it to be done in colour & willing to pay 50% more so that she could keep it as memory of how she looked like during her childhood.
The colours used were based on my imagination. The difficulty level of this type of work is of course higher than those done from coloured photos. The imaginary skin tone is important & must be accepted by the clients, especially those who are very particular in skin colour. Definitely not an easy job...

Individual portrait done from photograph.

A3 size portrait of an Indian lady.
Medium used: Water-colour on white paper.
Client's purpose: Birthday gift.

The water colour medium is not among my range of mediums being offered in my website.However,special request for it can be arranged if you are interested.To many people,water colour seems to be an easy medium to master.In actual fact,it's quite a difficult medium to handle especially for painting portraits.A lot of patience needed in order to come up with a good art piece.When I started learning it a few years back,some local artists who were with me then tried to discourage me by saying it's very difficult simply b'cos they failed.I went ahead anyway as I've succeeded in learning so many other mediums such as soft-pastel,acrylic & oil paint which were far more difficult than this.I took only a short time to explore the character of water colour & produced paintings that I considered good enough for me to recommend this particular medium to my clients although it is still not up to world standard.It had somehow upset those so called artists who were trying to discourage me initially, b'cos to them my ability to handle so many mediums is a threat & has made them feel small or lousy although it was never my intention to do so.They hated me ever since & one of them even indirectly criticized & insulted me in many of his blog posts recently.I'll go more into this issue in my coming posts soon,it's quite lengthy.But to me,my latest water colour medium has added to my variety of mediums used for my clients to choose from. Business minded ma...

Watercolour paintings done from black & white photographs

Size: A3
Painting depicts: Son of Mr & Mrs Matthews.
Medium used: Watercolour on white paper.
Client's purpose: For rememblance of their beloved son

who passed away during WW2.




Size: A3
Portrait depicts: Parents of Mrs Matthews.
Medium used: Watercolour on white paper.
Client's purpose: As a surprise gift for her sister Mrs Gilmore.

The Matthews came for holiday together with Mrs Gilmores & made an order at the same time.This was their second order.Fully paid for them before moving on to other destinations & finally back home to England. After completion of the paintings, I sent them via registered mail service together with Mrs Gilmores' painting in a postage tube. Upon receiving,they sent me the above letter of appreciation(shown above) & of course they were extremely happy with the result, especially the transformation from their 'black & white' photographs to coloured paintings.

Individual portrait

A4 size portrait of a guy

Medium used: Watercolour on white paper

Client's purpose: A bithday gift.

Individual portrait

A4 size portrait of Mr Edward Ng,Design Director of KKS International (Interior Design firm).
Medium used: Watercolour on white paper
Client's purpose: Personal interest

Individual Portrait

A4 size portrait.
Medium used: Watercolour on white paper.
Client's purpose: Personal.

Individual portrait

A3 size portrait of a pretty lady.

Medium used: Watercolour on white paper.
Client's purpose: Birthday gift to his girlfriend.