Blue

18 April 2012, Watercolour on paper.

I was disheartened at the start of this week and some how it got worse on Wednesday :| Nevertheless, this strong sentiment actually drove me to complete the drawing within lesson time (yay!). Despite the unfitting facial expression in the photo (taken on 8 April), I thought it would be fine to just practice with watercolour so I did it.

I wanted to base my drawing on turquoise and orange initially but it didn't work out very well (as seen from my forehead). Eventually I completed the rest of my face in arbitrary ultramarine.

The eyes are terribly unpleasant in the drawing and my smile is unatural even in the photo itself (-_-;;) will work on drawing eyes next time... I wonder how these two will come together on my real face hahahah.

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Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say, Gillian Wearing, 1992

This consists of a series of photographs, each showing a member of the public whom she had stopped on the street and persuaded to write something on a piece of paper. Wearing then photographed the people holding the paper. She has said "I'm always trying to find ways of discovering new things about people, and in the process discover more about myself." (Wikipedia)

Some photographs from the series:

Doodle

Doodle

4 Jan 2012

Pen on paper

photo credit to Ashley

Some doodles I drew a few weeks ago; uploaded it so as to change my profile pic. hahaha

Blog Task: Singapore Biennale 2011

Sometime last year, I went on an art learning journey to Singapore Biennale with my AEP classmates. It is situated at the Old Kallang Airport.

(source: http://www.singaporebiennale.org/index.php)

Blog Task: Andy Goldsworthy

"The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below." -Andy Goldswothy

Blog Task: Christo and Jeanne-Claude

During one of the AEP lessons, we were tasked to investigate an object and wrap it like how Christo and Jeanne-Claude did in their works. One of their most famous works will be the Wrapped Coast. Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped a 1 mile stretch of Australian coast using fabric and 36 miles of rope to transform the landscape.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 1968-69

Wrapped Coast, One Million Square Feet, Little Bay, Sydney, Australia