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Day 20 of #28daychallenge Theme: All Things Beautiful My piece from this morning at Labrador Park… our first outdoor sketch event in the last few months. So glad to see so many show up and having a ball! 🤗 Labrador Nature Reserve sits at the southwesterly coast of Singapore, and is a beautiful oasis amidst heartland housing estates to the north, and Sentosa island (super high-end real estate) to the southeast. The red structure to the right is a beacon to guide boats and yachts coming into the marina. The cement structure to the left is a decommissioned gunner bunker used all the way back in WWII. Labrador Park and Sentosa island (southern coasts) were lined with huge guns in bunkers just like this one, built by the English Armed Forces, ‘cos they had expected the Japanese Navy and Airforce to attack Singapore from the southern coasts, but the sneaky Japanese armed forces came from the north after also taking Malaysia. That is why Sentosa island used to be named Pulau Belakang Mati during the Japanese Occupation, which means “death from behind”. Today the emptied out bunkers sit as monuments from a time past. *Hero 578 fude nib FP, Daniel Smith Artist watercolors, Daler Rowney 300gsm watercolor paper #28daychallenge #AllThingsBeautiful #weekendsketchers #singaporesketchers #keepsketching #beatcovidwithart #sketchingthroughpandemic #sketching #sketch #sketchbook #sketchbooker #usksg #urbansketchers #urbansketch #gbtb #gardensbythebay #flowerdome #flowers #bloom #greatcompany #gratitude #sketchwalk #sketchers #labradorpark #historicSG *Instagram: @synchopat (at Labrador Nature Reserve) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTJcYCSHLWp/?utm_medium=tumblr