Color Combinations

Being an art student, I should be more observant in my daily life even when I am having my dinner. A simple meal of roasted duck depicts a vibrant color combination, and a strong contrast of color between the sauce and duck skin. Reflecting, as a fine art student, knowing how to use color in my artwork is crucial in order to make my artwork more attention grabbing when necessary.

Principle Of Art

The pictures shown different level of repeated patterns reminds me of M.C. Escher. Patterns are an important part of both math and art. Patterns are when something is in repeated groups. And M.C. Escher said that he was an artist who used had more in common with math than art. Reflecting, I should learn from him and use more elements and involve various principle of arts in my artwork in my future artwork.

Forced Connections Presentation

After the presentation, I have learned to think creatively in my work and be more confident to speak up in front of  people. Here are some tips I learned through this presentation. It's important to speak louder so the audience is able to hear me. For better understanding I learned to use my body language. Reflecting, for professionals today, presentation and public-speakings are more important than ever. Strong presentation skills and ability to engage and connect can truly set me apart from the crowd.

Forced Connections

In this class exercise, we have to forcefully establish links between two objects from our bags into a new product. Our team has chosen a comb and glasses. We combined them into a ''comb-glass" so that girls will never have a hard time finding a comb because they are two in one. Reflecting, starting with doing what is necessary, subsequently thinking of what is possible and suddenly we are doing the impossible. This exercise pushed us to expand our mind and to think creatively without excluding any thought as impossible during our thought process. I will keep an open mind in the future because nothing is truly impossible as we learned from the activity.

Cheer Leading

I saw my fellow schoolmate practicing cheer leading for NAFA fun day. Reflecting, I am inspired by their energy. I shall learn to infuse vibrancy and energy in my artwork.

Botanic Garden

A trip to botanic garden, I was truly amazing by the scenery. The sceneries reminds me of the paintings of French nature painter, Claude Monet. He was one of the most famous French Impressionist painter and I look up to him and his revolutionary art techniques. The water lilies in the lake reminded me of his most famous painting, the Water Lilies. Reflecting, I realized that as an aspiring painter, it is important to visit nature parks to draw inspiration for my artwork instead of just looking for references on the computer.

Silent Night

The sight of those night views gives me a strong feeling of wonder. I realized that as long as I open up my eyes and look around my surrounding, the usual environment can be just as interesting and meaningful. Reflecting, I should be more observant about my surrounding and look at things in a different perspective instead of focusing on my phone all the time. As an art student, I should apply what I have observe in my surrounding, and translate it into my artwork or apply it into my creative process during school.

Lesson - Force thinking

For this lesson, we learned to combine two different objects to create a brand new object by using the 'SCAMPER' method. After brainstorming a few ideas, my favourite one is to transform the iPad into  a grilled pan which uses the natural heat produces by iPad to heat up food and items anytime and anywhere. It is not only portable, it is also multifunctional and convenient especially during travel. I lack the confidence and skill to transform some ideas into practical objects and this exercise has helped me to overcome this issue. In addition, I used to be scared of improvising because I do not know how to substantiate my ideas with the appropriate knowledge. However after this lesson, I learned a methodical way to convert my ideas into reality. As such, I hope to fully utilize "SCAMPER" in my future artwork so that I can bring my artwork to the next level.

Analogies Thinking

We practiced those quizzes during the lesson, and these are the quizzes that I lack an understanding in the meaning of the words used. The main obstacle was that I could not really understand some of the vocabularies used, and therefore I am unable to deduce the relationship between the two words. Reflecting, in order for me to get the quiz correctly I have to understand the meaning behind the words. I should research on information from another source to help solve the problem at hand. From this exercise, I understood the objectives of analogies thinking and I will apply the essence of analogies thinking in my creative process.

Haze

During this season of the year, Singapore will usually be affected by severe smoke haze due to forest in the region periodically. Unwittingly, it brings a brand new perspective to many of the common scenes in Singapore. The blurry landscape caused by the haze creates a never before seen atmosphere to many landmarks. For instance, the usual street at my neighborhood has a sinister atmosphere caused by the haze. Even though the haze is detrimental to health, it made me realized that a filter is able to instantly change the atmosphere of a photo. As such, I will make sure to reflect that in my photography projects in the future.

Human Characteristics

Hope

A sight of bright hope contains inside those jars.

Despair

A voice full of self-hatred and despair created by those dark lyrics.

Anxiety

Unease and overwhelming feeling by looking at those polaroid.

Anger

The unyielding roar of the undead phoenix.

Surprise

A store with everything but something unexpected may appear.

Fear

An equipment that symbolizes fear, sorrow and darkness, unforgotten memory of war.

Angry 

The sharp villainous metallic brunches represents angry emotions.

Jubilant

Happy and positive vibes from the colourful and soft smiling toys that will brighten up your day. 

Depression

The lonely dark ball lying in the dark by itself.

Aversion

The strong dislike of feelings of the whole artifact.

I am a very emotional person, and after exploring 'Human Characteristics', I have learnt better ways to express my feelings. That is beneficial for me as I will be able to better communicate with others as well as express myself in my artworks in a more sophisticated way. This practice thought me to see things from different angle and appreciate the essence of every artwork. And perhaps discover them in totally different possibilities of feels and emotions. This is not only beneficial for me as an art student but as wise and creative person.