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Title: good ole me

Medium: Linograph

time taken: approx. 10 hrs

i think that i waasnt sensitive enough to the details, and my strokes were sometimes rather uncontrolled. This piece is decent but not above average, although i do think that the positive/negative space was balanced out quite okay. (as mr lim said i think)

Title: Im.pulse

Media: Clay

Size: bigger than the rest.

Approx date: around 5 hours

This is the last one i made. it took about 5 hours, as well. And its a table, if you cant tell. i think she looks kind of haughty. Oh, i chose this picture because of the nice shadow. And you would NOT believe how much support this thing needed before it dried up. I was really afraid the wet clay will sag and become deformed. after ms yap and i finished placing the support, you couldnt even see the original one. 

I learnt my lesson from the making of chairisma that the support is really important, and therefore i placed extra emphasis on it this time. Making these clay furniture was really fun and enjoyable, and you never know what fun it is to put your hands into the clay. In fact, i enjoyed this process the best out of all my coursework stuff of different media, like pencil, digital etc. My only regret was not having enough time to fire my works.

Oh and another lesson i learnt was in kneading the clay! into the ox-shaped thingy, right, ms yap! It looked easy when she did it, but when i did it, well, let’s just say it needed tons of practice to get it remotely right

I’m so happy that this is successfully done. Proud to share my work with all of you xD

thanks for tuning in!

Title: Chairisma (go ahead, groan all you want)

Media: Clay

Size: around 20 cm by 25 cm

Approximate Date: arnd May/June/Sept period. (may, june prototype was conceived. 2nd one during sept hols)

This, my friends, was an extremely problematic design. Whether the design was even able to be put into 3-D form was cast under doubt. Because of the nature of the design, how it twists and turns, i had to redraw it a few more times to see it from all angles so that i was able to actually make it. It was painfully put together by multiple slabs, and I had to wait for one part to dry before joining the other side. (It was separated into 3 parts before joining).I took a little more than 6 hours i think.

And the most hateful thing is, it BROKE on me. It threw a tantrum and smattered into a thousand million pieces just because it wasnt fired. and i actually tried to join back the pieces by buying UHU glue. Sadly, the situation was regrettably irreversible, and i had to make another one. The second one lasted long enough till after the photoshoot to break, mercifully. I think the joints were too thin, and clay was just not a suitable medium for stable-ness as well as to show the thin lines of the furniture. When i designed it, i kind of envisioned it to be made with malleable plastic, that was all flowy and nice. I guess thats where it went wrong.

Along with all the tough work and mistakes, this is actually my favorite one, and my most beloved one, maybe because of the emotional attachment to it, but i really like the overall structure of it.It kind of challenges you, do you feel that? or maybe thats because i developed a habit of talking to clay. LOVESSSS <3

Title: Boldova (i thought it looked kind of like how those body-builders go ‘HURRGH’ and make their arms go all concave, showing off their biceps and stuff, and sometimes i go ‘hey, it reminds me of hulk’ and therefore out came the name BOLD, and ova is just a prefix.) Oh, i wanted to tag emotions to each of the furnitures too, like bold, haughty, blah, kind of attaching human feelings to each one of them.

Media: Clay

Size: 9cm by 8cm

Approximate Date: 16 May

This was made from one phlunk (yes, i know theres no such word)  of clay, which i later moulded into this. Nip and tuck, they say. Not exactly the same, but not entirely different either. As a result, the method/process of making this is largely different from the others, (the others were made by joining slabs together), and it has a rather blocky feel. Its supposed to be a table.

For closer inspection:

This belongs to the same series as the first one, as you can see by the consistent colour scheme of yellow and black. i like its simplicity, and how it manages to convey what our main idea is, which is the lyrics competition.

The spot is also needy for someone to fill it. The emptiness is evident, and i like how it invites the viewer to join the competition.

The one on top..some MRT station.

Oh the one below has interesting origins..

Let’s start with the background story

We were happily riding along in the car when my baby cousin grabbed my phone to play. In a last ditch attempt to get it back, i told her i would show her there’s a camera ‘hidden’ in the phone..she was so intruiged that i managed to get it back, just look out of the window and..TA-DA! somehow the settings were adjusted to sepia (must be her lah!) so i just clicked…

I like all these pictures, particularly the last one, because of the unusual lighting, and the rest because of its composition.

Title: Class tee design (front)

Medium: Pen

TIme: about an hour.

A kind of school badge, like an emblem or smth. Inspired from Harry Potter’s school thingy.

Was originally made for class tee, but wasnt chosen in the end. i think 401 class tee has a badge like that.

I liked how it was striking, and yet some might find it a little messy.

Overall, i like the regal feel of it.

i want to use this post to introduce a contemporary artist called John Robertson.

You can find his art portfolio (eportfolio HAHA!) from the URL below. He posts rather regularly.

http://www.whatartdidhemaketoday.com/

He is a very open minded artist, and produces great works in varieties of media. He also has a large range of themes, ranging from sports to political to portaits. He also has a great fascinations with dogs. Many of his works feature these lovely canines

I admire him in the way he uses his art to speak his voice. For example, in Immigration Assemblage, he says that

‘Tough immigration laws are made by those who are
having a better time. Roosevelt said that we are
all descended from immigrants. I know that for
me I’m lucky that there were no immigration laws
when my family came to this country. Of course
they immigrated from the Garden of Eden. –
Immigration assemblage by John Robertson“

and there is a strong personal voice that can be heard, making it unique.

another work i love is Wash away your Sins assemblage. Read this.

The box of soap has some great text on it.
On one side of the box it says: FOR LIARS, CHEATERS AND WRONG-DOERS – A SINNER’S NECESSITY! On the other side it says TEMPTING “DO-IT-AGAIN” SCENT.

On the back it says:
DIRECTION FOR USE
Open Box, Remove soap
Engage Water Supply
Moisten Oneself
Lather Vigorously
Rinse
Repent

INGREDIENTS: an exotic blend of Somalian Frankincense.

Indonesian Nutmeg & Ginger in 100% vegetable base

.
FOR VULGARITIES: Insert in mouth, scrub, spitout, flush with water

. May be harmful if swallowed.

WARNING: HABITUAL USE MAY STREGTHEN CHARACTER.

Nice.

I realised that many of his works makes very effective use of words. I was influenced by this guy to include words in my final, and since mine was a magazine advertisement, i couldnt really escape from words. Mine couldnt be as tongue-in-cheek as his, but there still can be some amount of playfulness in it.