Quadrangle

Photo Manipulation

18 Mar 2012

The 2 pictures above depict the quadrangle in my school at night. The left is the original I took at around 5pm after school. I started off with the aim to create a night impression of my school in Photoshop. Besides adjusting the hue, I also added in layers of filter and textures (using pictures of night skies and stars) to increase the luminosity of the dark blue background. 

This is an essential step which serves to reflect the attractive and mystical image I have for my school. Two years ago, I had the fortune to sleep on the quadrangle floor with my classmates. It was during which I sensibly experienced the difference between the feelings I get from my school at day and at night. 

An area I should take note of when working with the sky next time, will be the amount of stars that really shines at night. I have to learn to throw away the idealistic and naive part of myself. :(

Blog Task: Personal Values part ii

Rene Magritte's Personal Values

My Personal Values (work in progress)

Significance:

1. Bubbles -  Bubbles of various colours ans sizes represent emotions, thoughts and ideas of different intensity. 
2. Moon - Iconography for intuition. The trend for bubbles to float towards the direction of moon shows how the spirit of mind could be influenced by intuition, to simply go with what you know and feel.
3. Nudity - The suggestion of being exposed brings out the idea of vulnerability and revelation of the "naked truth". 
4. Deer - 
5. Diary - an essential item which serves as a reminder for important dates such as assignment deadlines.
6. Dark wall - It was initially planned to resemble the night sky but it turned out to be something else unfortunately. While night time allows for a short-term solitude, the dark sky is drawn to highlight how much I value this duration for meditational purposes and development of inspirations.
7. Door - The door depicts the scenery of what is outside of my room, symbolizing the path that leads to the uncovering of subconscious - to become more aware of my fear. This is also the source for my creativity.

negative version

Watercolour practice

Watercolour Practice 1
27 June 2012 

Another out-of-the-blue day that I actually drew during ape lesson (shhh!) The first piece is a practice on wet-in-wet. I was hoping to achieve the same effect shown in this video (from 03:00 onwards) but I guess there's still a long way to go...

 

Watercolour Practice 2
27 June 2012 

The second and third pieces are both portrait practices based on photographs. The first portrait shows a pair of eyes spacing out and is dramatic in its choice of colour. Patches of blue and beige at the right hand side of this work are representational of the state of contemplation in contrast to the purple-peach skin surface. 

Watercolour Practice 3
27 June 2012 


In the second portrait, the subject is looking away from the viewer and showing a much lighter, dream-like colour scheme - pink, violet, orange, blue, turquoise, olive, and purple. The high transparency of the hair adds on to its illusionary and unsubstantial impression. Illusions can suppress fears and reality, but they will ultimately collide with the truth, against which they are dashed to pieces. Even so, I am glad to have found the unspoken part of me.

Thanks for reading!
p.s. can u tell which is my face? :D