Please contact respective coordinator below if you have any queries on this course.

Dates: 14, 21, 28 August (Friday)

Location: Tiong Bahru Central Plaza, 2pm-5pm

Contact: Ruth – 9119 3212

This course empowers senior participants with creating their own postcards, festive greeting cards, as well as bookmarks using marker rendering. With the knowledge of colour theory that they will learn in the course, they will apply it to making their cards and bookmarks colourful and attractive. On top of that, they will also be encouraged to use their creations and share them with family members and friends.

Course Requisites

o  English course:

o  50 years old and above

Singaporean or PR

Must be able to read, understand and converse in simple English

Medium of Instruction: Onsite Course

Pricing:

$58.00 ((inclusive of GST and after NSA subsidy)

Material fee: $15 pay to trainer.

Your trainer:

Koh Kuan Eng spent 20 years in the advertising industry before making a career switch to social work. He graduated with a Diploma in Applied Arts from NAFA, and his creatives works have won international awards at The One Show, London International Awards, and The New York Festivals. Koh Kuan Eng is not only an avid backpacker who enjoys keeping travel journals in which he sketches and paints, but he is also an author who incorporates his drawings in a series of pictorial dialect books that has sold over 10,000 copies island-wide.  

Session 1:

• Trainer’s introduction

Participants’ introduction

Overview and introduction of POSCA markers

POSCA marker rendering techniques

Creating vibrant postcards with POSCA markers

Group sharing

Session 2:

Hands-on practice on drawing sea creatures

POSCA rendering of sea creatures on pouch

Varnish and group sharing

Session 3:

Hands-on practice on drawing local kueh

POSCA rendering of kueh on plates (as coin and keychain tray)

Varnish and group sharing

9 hours over 3 sessions

Interesting highlights of the programme include:

Session 1: Scenery Postcard making (Analogous Colour Scheme)

a) Exploring different ways of using POSCA markers through layering

b) Hands-on practise of rendering

c) Sharing of finished postcard with fellow participants

Session 2:

a) Marker rendering of stylised sea creatures on pouch

b) Sharing of finished pouch with fellow participants

Session 3: Local Kueh Plates

a) Review of kueh drawings

b) Fine-tuning and adjusting drawings in preparation for rendering

c) Final drawing of kueh

d) POSCA rendering of kueh on plate