Paint to Music

        The semester has finally coming to an end, and as a parting activity of 2D design, Ms. Lisa suggested paint to music as our final individual assignments. The activity take place beside the lake, and is seperated into 2 session, the 1st one was classical music, and the 2nd one was modern music.

For the 1st session, when the classical music started to play I was able to see colorful and pleasant flow of the life with a hint of grandness and trouble. And so I begin to paint it in a flowing wave manners using soft colors while adding some bright color such as red and purple that stand out to bring the grandness in the music. While the dripping patterns was painted to shows troubles and instability.

For the 2nd session, I find the modern music quite ambiguous, the lyrics managed to gives out their feeling and emotion of the song but the melody did not make me feel the emotion contain in it, and so I started painting it with color gradient of the sky that goes from day to night, and then a black line was added in the middle to separate the day and the night. And then abstract flower pattern were added to both the day and night. And the result actually brings out my ambiguity, the painting can be view from any direction, from top to bottom or to spin it around. Is it day or night? are those flower or fireworks or was it lamp? These question were implemented to further show my ambiguity of the modern song.

This exercise enabled me to express my emotion better through my hands, and also teaches me the different view point of humans on the same given topic. I was also able to learn the importance of letting yourself run free while doing work, not only it relief yourself but also allow more thinking opportunities with a clear mind.

Batik Presentation

We finally got our batik and everyone did a pretty good job.

And we presented it during class as to explain the reason of the chosen concept and color scheme.

My group's batik (Lisa, Ajiem, Denny, Sam):

 Zuliana, Rosey, Aina, and Li Wei's batik:

Zachary, Doreen, Eevon, Song Da's batik:

 Aliff, Kush, Alya, Jun's batik:

 Ilona, Priya, Andrew, Hussain's batik:

 Ashley, Clarin, Evelynn, Nelson's batik:

Audrey, Hoi Jun, Syamim, Lina's batik:

From this exercise, I was able to learn that precision doesn't always brings out the best of our work, sometimes a little bit of uncertainty and 'chaos' will result in surprising yet satisfying piece of work.

Batik Assignment Trip

       For our last group assignment, we were assign to come up with a shared theme batik of 4. For this assignment, Ms.Lisa has arranged a trip to a batik factory, Jadi Batik. Just a day before the trip, me and my group mates has come up with a theme for our batik, namely Old Disney Character and implement the color and pattern of the stain glass.

Tarzan (Ajiem's)

Aladdin (Denny's)

Beauty And The Beast (Mine)

Snow White (Lisa's)

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At the day of the trip:

Arrival at Jadi Batik

We got down from the bus and went right into the workshop, before we started, the worker explain and did some demonstration on how to use the canting.

One of the worker's work in progress

 After that, the guide showed us the wax and color that were provided for us.

Execution of waxing and applying the colors.

After we completed the batik, the batik will have to go through a process of washing and drying, because of that we are not allowed to bring it home, but the workers will send it to us after the washing and drying process is done.

What I was able to learn from this trip is the skill of using wax as a medium and also the method of mixing and blending color a more advanced way. I trust that these skills will be a help in the future.

Monogram Poster Presentation

    The day of our monogram presentation has finally arrived, here are the results of my fellow designers-in-training.

Ilona's

Alya's

Aliff's

Lisa's

Ajiem's

Rosey's

Priya's

Denny's

Aina's

Left: Zachary's, Right: Nelson's

Li Wei's

Syamim's

Left: Eevon's, Right: Doreem

And last but not least, MOI~:

 A little model shot of (from left to right) : Denny, Aina, Zuliana, Sam (me), Rosey.

This assignment manage to enhance my cutting skills and also the precaution required for printing images, and of course it teaches me the beauty of combining art medium to create something.

Monograms Results

Tadaaaa~ These are the items i decide to put my monogram on.

Monograms priniting

          After the finalization of our monograms, we were asked to look for minimum 6 item to print our monograms on it as part of our assignment. And on the following week we began our printing
process in class.