experimenting with liquids

A 3D experimental project for the November exhibition. I'm stoked about working with liquid mediums and its one of the most versatile materials anyone can play with. Surrounded by liquid everyday, most of us will take them for granted and just use them as they are, be it oil, shampoo, food dye or milk. Here's an experiment my classmate and I have done. They turned out quite beautiful actually.

welcome to the dark side (of drawing)

Over the past few months, I was under the most fabulous Art tutors/artists for my Art modules. One of which is the 2D drawing class. We learnt several really useful techniques on drawing and most recently we were taught the techinque of darkening the entire paper before we proceed on to erasing the paper on light areas of the picture and darkening spots that are totally dark or just black. I used this technique on my eiffel tower picture. Turned out really well!

As my 2D tutor, Miss Seck, puts it, managing Art is also about managing the class. If artworks by the teacher is managed well, similarly, the class will be managed rather well by the teacher. See, doing Art is making use of both brains, unlike what folktales have said, that we only make use of our right brains while doing art. If that's the case, that work will be something of no significance, nothing but gibbrish. The brains work hand-in-hand to help create sense in works, structure and of course, accuracy in portrayal  something very important in figure drawing, life drawing and of course observational drawing.

Using this as a guide (a construction site as a metaphor):

• the heart and brain as the architect
• the eye as the foreman/supervisor
• the hand as the workers/builders

Does this all make sense to you? It sure does to me. Very often, the heart and brain is contradicting and not focusing on the right elements in drawing. Therefore creating a conflict in ideas before drawing. The eye being the foreman gets confused and looks out for things that don't matter and crops out all the other important elements. Over sometime, the eye gets tired and the workers (the hand) take charge. This is when you spend tons of hours on a single piece of art work without getting a desired outcome.

Alright. Perhaps I've done enough talking. Till the next time, folks!

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