An ending to a truly fantastic chapter

Good Morning! :)

So yesterday, we had an amazing activity...

PAINTING WITH MUSIC

Basically, painting with music, is uhhh, painting to a songs (in this case, 1 playlist consisting of classical music, and another playlist consisting current contemporary songs ) and as the songs play, we are to feeeeeel the music and express our emotions onto our canvas


Hence, the name 'PAINTING WITH MUSIC'

And so the day began, with us setting up our canvas and covering the whole deck with newspapers. (thats my canvas there in between Aliff and Aliya)

Spread out our stuff

But of course, there is always time for a photo :)

The first playlist to fill the deck was classical, mostly Bach and Mozart, and we started to grab our brushes and such.

The music has started, its time to paint :D

And so we began!

Always did love it when my hands got messy 

What classical music does to me

Our outdoor class for today :D



WELL! We did not only play classical music, we also played current song. Which really got the party going....

Mixing a fresh batch for the contemporary playlist!

sadly, i forgot to take any progress shot. so let me just 

UNVEIL MY ARTTTTT

Contemporary Piece ( my personal favourite)

Classical Piece

Definitely proud of my artworks :)

And now, to unveil my mates work :)

Kush  and Aliff 's art  = classical

Ajiem's classical piece

Aliya's classical piece

Aliff's classical piece

Kush's classical piece (which Mr Stephen LOVED)

Denny's classical piece

Zach's classical piece

Jun's classical piece 

Li Wei's classical piece

Beautiful art work produced by FID :)

next, the contemporary pieces done by my mates :)

Aliff's contemporary piece

Aliya's contemporary piece
( yeahhh, she was mad cus her fries were over burnt. i dont blame her though!)

Denny's contemporary piece

After such an amazing day,

it still saddens me to realise that this is our last class for 2D.

I cant seem to show how thankful i am, at how much we have learnt and how much we have gone through as a class. Ms Lisa has truly taught me some of the most important knowledge that a designer can bring to the working world.

What truly amazes me is, even though we are listening to the same playlist (both classical and contemporary), it was beautiful to see that we each produced such different artwork from one another

THANK YOU MS LISA. 
<3 <3 <3

Batik Display

HELLO HELLO!

So today, we finally got to see our batik! and honestly

I.

AM.

PROUD.

Lisa, Ajiem, Sam, Denny

Zach, Doreen, SongDa, Eevon

Aliya, Aliff, Jun, Kush

Ilona, Hussein, Andew, Priya

Lina, Hoi Jun, Audrey, Zach

Ashley, Nelson, Evelyn, Clarin

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All in all, it was an incredible experience to get to do some Batik with my mates. Truly an amazing time.  What i learn from this batik project is,

as always

Composition is key.

And Ms Lisa gave us a good advice today.

“Always be proud of your work, even if it didn’t exactly turn out the way you want it too. Be proud of the outcome of your hard work. Think about the composition, about how you would be displaying it, your workspace. Keep your workspace clean. Otherwise, Everyone is going to think that you are not proud of your work. I mean if you were to display it so shabby looking. What would your lecturer or other people think?”

And of course, my beloved FID mates

design, canting, colour, JADI BATEK

Monday, 29th April 2013

We had a short tutorial with Ms Lisa to show her our ideas for the batik trip we're having the next day, and so after a lot of ideas.... we finally had a theme set for us. As planned, we went for a more symbolic theme for our ideas. and for the bigger theme that ties the 4 individual batik (or members), it'll be about the old disney characters.

Mine = snow white 

Ajiem = Small Tarzan(white silhouette) / Kerchak(black silhouette)

Sam = Beauty and the Beast

Denny = Aladdin

clicking the highlighted names will go to their page.

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Tuesday, 30th April 2013, 

we went for our Batik Trip! 

And we've gather at the Student Life Centre before boarding the bus

3 monkeys excited to do some Batik.

Alya , Aliff , and me 

click the highlighted names to go to their page.

At Jadi Batek!

 we were introduced to professionals who were busying away with their batiks.

It was mesmerising to see their hands move so quickly and so graceful. 

In this photo, the man is using a Canting, a traditional tool where it is made to handle hot boiling wax without causing burns to the artist. 

this is what a Canting looks like.

The snout at the end of the Canting is for hot wax to flow consistently onto the fabric used.

THe handle is for the artist to hold to avoid touching the hot wax.

So, the wax is used to basically line the desired pattern, to make it easier to colour it with paint,

The incredible thing about using wax is that, it'll stop the paint from bleeding out into a different region of the cloth. 

As shown here, the different colours are separated and are cleanly coloured. 

After a few process of paint drying, fabric washing, and dying again.

The wax will come off leaving a clean outline of where the wax was before.

So this was a stretch that one of the artists was working on.

Then, it was our turn to start doing work.

We were shown the table that had all the colours under the sun.

A strong reminder to be careful when handling the wax. 

And so we began to sketch our design on to the stretch of silk.

Canting was personally tough to do. And so i had one of the professionals to help me make sure i was doing it right.

Abang helping me thicken the lines to avoid paint from bleeding.

All waxed out :D

And so come the fun bit of batik!

PAINTING

 Me, looking at Kush who snapped a photo out of the blue -,-

mine

ajiem

And so after painting.....

this is how it is, before the long process of drying, washing and drying.

The colourful colours on my batik is to mimic the pattern of stain glass found in churches and such.

The lively surrounding,

was taking a panoramic photo, unfortunately ashley moved into the shot. right before the last frame. and so her lower body wasnt in the shot. HAHHAHAHAH

After leaving Jadi Batek

we went to have a much deserved lunch!

Ajiem fooling around with oranges.

 And on the ride home......

A BUNCH OF SLEEPYHEADS....

AWWWWWWWW

it was soooo much fun. and tiring. but i learnt a valuable lesson today.

I learnt about the beauty of traditional art. I learnt how to handle a canting.

I learnt how to be creative, adding your own elements, even to a traditional art craft like Batik.

Most of all, i learnt how to have fun :)

THANKS MS LISA.