Texture and Patterns

Well... For my mask... I was thinking of doing a deep colour with emotions of darkness and elegance. (It ends up that I failed to do that. It was highly impossible, since it was more difficult than it looks.)
My mask includes (tiger, peacock and dragon). For the head, I decided to do a tiger's head. For my back and the tail, I decided to do the beautiful tails of the peacock. And for the arms, I decided to do it on the scales of a dragon.
I wanted to use the elegant, royal dark blue colour, dark purple, and red... (I might as well include some gold...)
I can only say that it's hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =(

Mini Description of Analogous Colours (Plz Go Further Down the Blog to View --- Colour Schemes)

Analogous colors are a palette of compatible color combinations that blend well together. They are neighbors on the color wheel. They tend to live harmoniously because they are relatives to each other.
Analogous colors are less vivid, bright and saturated. They have less contrast and vibrational energy then complementary colors.

The 4 Hrs Painting at Home

OMGosh..... Today, I brought my whole mask home. I prepared bringing all the modelling paste and paint home. It was a big load. I got home at 8:00... So I ate dinner and showered and did some other homework and started working on my mask.
My mask is due tomorrow, but since my mask is pretty huge, Ms Hampton kindly lets me just finish the front of the mask. =] That made me soooooo relieved.
So, I started working on my mask at 9:00pm, I knew that I couldn't finish everything myself all night long, so I decided to ask mum. Mum is soooo helpful. She laid her hands in and started working on the mask with me. She gave me some ideas to use in my mask. I ask her to do all the modeling and pasting and help me carve out my patterns carefully. Whereas, I did the painting with the blends. We swapped over jobs, many time. Since modelling paste actually dries for an hour, we really had to make it quick or I won't be able to get sleep. We decided to use 3 blow dryers and dry all the modelling paint. It was actually a good idea. It dried the modelling paste with a big hot blow of 10 mins. =] (My new discovery!)
I placed modelling paste all over my mask, bit by bit. Then drying it bit by bit. I sorted out patterns to put on. And in the end, I added a beautiful eyeline using a sleek black colour and lining it on the eye of my mask. It was actually quite facsinating for what the result turned out to be. Well, I finished painting at 1:00am... (4 hrs of hard work), but I wasn't tired. I was seriously VERY GLAD!!!!!! and happy. I thanked mum!
I think I would never want to experience another mask-painting, even if it's really fun! (It's dreadful!!!!)

Colour Schemes (Analogous)

Their are many colour schemes to be viewed and seen. Ms Hampton gave a sheet to practice blending the Analogous colours. It was really hard. (Harder than I thought!) I decided that I will do that in my mask. I chose the cool and dark elegant in depth colour for my mask. They include the pure dark blue ocean colour ( very royal colour indeed ), a dark purple, lavender purple, and red.... I will try to mix and blend them the best as possible.

Progress Throughout (Start of Term 4)

WOW! Term 4... Everything is sooooooo quick that i don't even realise. I hate time...... (It betrays me!) Anyway... back to 'MASKS'.
Well... Now that it's term 4, for the first lesson, i went to pick up my mask and I was conscious that I had a few spots that not covered with paper machaes properly. And I missed a layer in a section of the mask. ( I AM SO CARELESS). This wasted me 2 more lessons to work on the mask. Finally in the 2nd Week, I can start modelling paste.
I seriously to realise that this all was not as easy it looks. I can finalise up saying that I really really hate modelling paste soooooo much! I don't even now how to properly use it. Something else, I couldn't do was to crack the paddle pop sticks into half where it made a sharp edge. (I am sooooo weak.) The first time I did it, I asked Ms Hampton to do it for me. Then, in another lesson I cracked another paddle pop stick. That time, it cracked and one stick hit my eye so badly, while the other half pieced my finger to bleed! [NOT PLEASANT....] >_<"
So, I decided when I added modelling paste, I would add a unique pattern. So, I added a lot of swirls in front of the mask. Very elegant swirl that would look like a music pattern painted around. That was where I was up to.
Now, in this week (Week 4), i had blended from the swirls into fur and down to my arms that has dragon scales... i have to work harder and get it done. I'm always the slowest. =[

Masks Progress

Well.... this is about the evaluation up for Term 3. Well... In term 3, I kept working on my mask. I only had 1 layer done. Finally 2 layers in the middle of the term.... And I actually MANAGED to finish paper macheing at the end of the term. That was quite a lot of work to do. =(
I think I've tried as hard as possible. I do realise I have a pretty big and COMPLEX mask, truly fixated to a big area to create and design...
It was such a relief to have a realisation knowing that I had finish papermacheing...
Something else is, I have started drawing drawing designs in my visual art diary. I drew out some colour schemes that I have planned to paint on my mask. =)
Well... that's all, folks!

(P.S. At the very last lesson in Term 3... I hid a pile of paper-macheing paper that's already cut out inside and under a cupboard where no one know where it is. It's for emergency use, in case I need it later!!!)

Optical Illusions to Make Things More IInteresting :D

Are the lines straight or not straight. (It's suppose to be straight!) =]
When you look at it, does it move? It's suppose to move like a wave. Look closer if you really can't see it. It's a very good optical illusion. :D
Is this a polar bear trying to get out of the freezing pool in the ice or a seal crawling on the ice?
Can you figure out what's wrong with this box? It's playing tricks on your eyes. ^^

A Loyal Tiger, A Beautiful Patterned Peacock and a Wise Dragon

Pictures of My 3 Animals ~ includes tiger, peacock and dragon.......

My Feelings About My Mask (Moods & Illusions)

I have a wonderful feel to my mask. Before, I had a plan for my mask of loyalty and pride. In this mask that I had made so far, I had only put in a feeling of pride. In sense of what I feel about my mask is that my mask makes me feel a kind a intense feeling, every time I look at it. I remember when Ms Hampton says: "Be creative, go over outside the box!"
In that lesson, I decided a whipping change of animal, which was from a plover to a peacock. A male peacock is absolutely stunning and beautiful. Everytime I look at my mask, I can imagine the extreme beauty of the patterns on the peacock's tail. Also, in that lesson, I made my most pure, creative designs that I tried to create using my fingers for my mask, and so I did and attempted. :D I also have a feeling of warmth when I look in from of my mask, because it is a tiger. A tiger gives love for everyone that they know, especially their babies. They always look so magnificent and so I can never take my eyes off them. I am trying to add a sense of loyalty in the front of the face. Then lastly, I added a dragons foot... They have powerful, strong foot to walk and fly off. They show a significance of wisdom and intelligence. (Although, I didn't do to well making the legs.) -_-
If I was to give 3 different colours to describe my mask. I would say, "sleek black", "Golden Rose-Red" & maybe "Creamish Yellow~Orange"...

Progress of My Mask

My mask has been on a good progress.
Making a mask is to be planned step by step.
It started off when we had to draw a side view, front view and maybe the back view. Drawing, the different patterns and planning out different places to transform a different animal and blend them altogether as one in 3 animals.

1. We had a plastic bag, and we stuffed lots of newspaper in it for like 15 mins until it's full and almost unable to stuff anymore, then we tie a know to that plastic bag.
2. We then use our fingers to clay the plastic bag and model out different shapes (e.g. ears... beaks...) and then sticky tape it all.
3. When all parts are finished with sticky tape. {Let's say we're doing 3 animals of dolphins, bats & cat---} We cut out a dolphins tail and then smoothly input and staple it onto the back of the plastic bag. Cut out wings of the bats.... Form ears using your fingers to model around and sticky take it. You can model the face around, making puffy cheeks or whatsoever until you are satisfied.
4. The next progress is to paper mache... In the paper mache-ing process, we put a total of 4 layers on to fully have it thick, distorted and full stable and ready to paint. We first have a layer of newspaper paper - mache-ing, then we have a layer of white paper (paper that is not printed before becoming a newspaper), then another layer of newspaper mache-ing, then lastly another layer of white paper.
5. When all dried and things are robust and ready to go. We paint our beautiful masks. Each lesson, we accumulate more colours and so it looks absolutely beautiful.
6. After all these process is done, on the bottom of the mask, we cut out a circle shape so that we can pull out all the newspaper that we stuffed before and replace it for our heads to wear it.

^^ Mask/hat PARTY!!!!! -o-

These are the processes of making our masks.

Week 2~3 Art Lessons :D

Term 2 has been going sooooooo fast. I don't know how many Art lessons have already gone by. I only know that it's~ --- (FUN!)
We're finally starting mask making in these weeks.
In week 2, we started our first lesson on mask making. Firstly, we had to use a big piece of plastic bag that can fit our head (well 1 1/2 times my head). Then Ms Hampton told us to shove a whole of newspaper until it's sturdy and robust. It took at least 40~60 newspaper to stuff in hard enough in the plastic bag. (It took 15 mins!!!!!!!) But it was a great experience to know what it's suppose to be like.

At one stage, Ms Hampton had explained that when we finish making our outside shapes of the mask. And when we fully paper-machaed the whole thing. We'll cut open the hole under the head of the mask where we stuffed all our newspaper in. Then we'll pull out all of the newspaper and we can fit our head inside. I thought it was quite smart to do it that way {in my opinion}. ^^

Anyway, in the 3rd week of school. I started making the ears and Ms Hampton used my mask as a demonstration to the class on how to make a beautiful nose where it connects smoothley up to the head, and also how to make eyes. We had to make an eye pocket where we can stuff a ball of newspaper in it to make eyes stand out. It was absolutely clever and wonderful and EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was lucky, because I didn't need to do the work, instead Ms Hampton did all of my work when she used my mask as a demonstration. At the very end of Week 3's last lesson of Art, I spent the whole lesson drawing a peacock's back tail {It was soooooo hard, because of all the beautiful patterns.} And I had to take 20 minutes of cutting it out. [After that, my whole right hand was swollen and cut and red.] :( It really wasn't a fun thing to do.
Oh well, it was a great to weeks to have experience the introduction of mask-making. I could mask-make later myself when I'm free in the holidays :D

Hope everyone enjoys mask-making. o_O

My Wonderful Multiple Intelligences Score

This is my Multiple

Intelligences Score. I

am quite proud of it. :D

1st Task Introducing Term 2

Term 2......... (Already a 1/3 of the year gone) :( ART...... this term is "MAKING MASKS"!!!

For the 1st lesson this term, we used the books that Ms Hampton borrowed of Mrs Sanberg. They were excellent, they had different kinds of catories of animals that we could choose from.

From the first steps of making masks, I shall mention the 3 animals that I chose are : Peacock (beautiful patterns :D), Tiger (So loyal and full of Beauty), and a dragon (Wise but don't know why I chose that ?!!?!!)

We had to divide up 4 boxes in one of the pages of our Visual Art Diary with each sections naming with Eyes, Details, Texture and Whole. For the eyes, we have to chose one of our animals to draw in great details of the eye. :D {I reckon it's not too good... hehe}

Next when we do the details, we have to find something particular of the animal, e.g. patterns... I did the patterns of the peacock.

After that, we do the texture, I chose the texture of the tiger, distinguishing the different features within the patterns of the tiger and the stripes in the direction that they go.

Then, we have to the whole picture of the animal that you are going to choose out of the three.

The homework is to complete that and also to draw the front & side of our animals. :D

That's all for today. SMILE!!!

Summary of Term 1

Throughout Term 1, we did lots of things in Art! To conclude and summarise what our class did was that we basically drew different stuffed toys or animals with different types of pencils (writing equipment). {Which includes ~ Charcoal, paintbrush, pencils, branch stick with ink...... [so forth.........]} In a few of our drawings we put light ink painting on our drawings. Sometimes dabbing the colours to contrast the lightness and darkness of the colour. Otherwise in the 2nd last lesson we tried once using the ink as a strong background before painting our pictures. Then when it is dried after 5 ~ 10 mins, we used at least 3 different coloured art crayons ranging up to maximum of 10 crayons, but then again the colours have to contrast to what we have done for the background and the light sketches. We also used the coloured pencils that were watercolour pencils (it was fun and BEAUTIFUL!!!! SMOOTH…… :D).
Also in Term 1, we did lots of contour lines. We also have to draw what we see right in front of our eyes, not what we imagine it looks like as a cartoon animal or something else. I tried my best….. :D
We used a lot of ink, I got use to drawing with the branches with black ink. It was pretty fun…. Anyway, it was a great term of Art.
For now the introduction of Term 2 is “MAKING MASKS!!!” J It will be loads of fun. (Well I hope…).

My Magnificent Drawing of Doggy

Everyone, look at my beautiful dog that drew! It's not that good but i think it's okay. :D

Beautiful Drawing Lessons (INK....!)

This is about the 5th lesson..... Miss Hampton said that we needed to start drawing beautifully! Using ink and many more items.
Mrs Hampton started demonstrating in the beginning of the lesson by using a Husky dog and draw it so beautifully... She told us that we need to do a quick sketch throughout the dog and not add in too much detail before using paint.
She drew it quickly and made the husky's face a bit wide but it was sooooooooo cute, she said work through what you can see and draw it out. We all had to use our imaginations and be very hand-quick throughout our drawing.
There were certain ways that we would hold our pencils or brushes......... and they made the quality of the art work being produced differently, every artwork has it's own distinctiveness.
Later on, Miss Hampton started using ink, she did not particularly use the colour of the dog's fur, she used different colours, in fact it made the dog stand out much more. She used a magnificent purple. That purple had a powerful sense of feeling which made the husky look cheerful and delighted and full of action & wonder. She coloured the shadows first (e.g. eyes, under her chin....) Then afterwards, she used a second colour that was lighter ( pale pretty yellow) and she coloured the husky with the colour and swirled her brush in different ways using special techniques.
Finally, Miss Hampton had finished drawing the wonderful husky, I thought it was gorgeous and I couldn't take my eyes of it. Another teacher came and said that the picture will be a demonstration for all classes to learn to draw and paint.
It was my turn, and i think that it was really hard. I turned picking a tiger as my animal to draw and paint. I didn't do what Miss Hampton said, and that was to sketch quick-handed. I drew a bit too much detailed, it turned out very ugly and it looked like a weird, crazy panther! >_<>
Lastly, I painted and Miss Hampton came across and said how gorgeous it was which made me sooooo puzzled. She told me to observe with my eyes how I stood out the beautiful shadows and different level of colours that I used by only 1 colour ONLY. 1 colour ONLY! instead of 2 ~ 3 colours. She made me feel proud, but then I learnt many lessons of the process of drawing and painting. :)
The lesson had finally came to an end, I have loads of homework to do! :(
Anyway, for anyone who looks at my blog, work hard for art this year and do your best no matter what! It's gonna be FUN!!!!!!! :D

Loving Meal Together

It's soooooooo artistic!!!!! HAHAHA! I made it! I think it can still be called ART! :)
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3rd Art Lesson of Kooool Drawing!

At my Art lesson today, we did quite a few interesting things. One of my most favourite things done on that lesson was painting with ink using a wood piece of stick that was cut into a quill-like pen. What we did first was to look at Miss Hampton doing a drawing. She took a teddy bear called Yumi and she showed us using a charcoal pencil to draw on the piece of big A3 paper what we can see from our view. She explained that we don’t just draw the outline, we slowly cut in and out around the shapes doing interesting sketches and some details being add onto. It turned out that Miss Hampton did a beautiful drawing of Yumi bear and a wonderful explanation. It then was our turn (the class) to choose a toy animal which there was a lot. (e.g. dogs like huskies, there are cats, cute teddy bears and other animals) Also while she came across the desks, she told us how to hold the charcoals and not drop them so they don’t break because they are pretty precious. J I drew two pictures of a dog and one of them was pretty good and I liked it. Then later, we had to start another drawing. Miss Hampton drew another of her example to show to us. This time, she used a wood that was cut into like a quill shape! She used it and drew Yumi bear on the side view. It was brilliant watching her draw. The wood that she used to draw flowed so smoothly like a real beautiful ink pen. It was much more detailed than the drawing she used the charcoal pencil. It was our turn to do it. My drawing took ages and I tried to do it as best as possible. When I finished my drawing, I thought it looked quite a bit weird and not very good but it turned out surprisingly that Miss Hampton said it was excellent. She brought my art work to another class to have a look at it and everyone complimented it wonderfully which made me a embarrassed, but still I think I can do better. Anyway, I felt great that lesson also one thing that I felt that I did right was that I drew the dog from the view that I was looking at!

Comments to Add! PLEASE!

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Also I am extremely looking forward to this year of Art!
I hope it will be truly fun!
P.S. I already had ink splashed on me everywhere in the 3rd lesson of Art :D

My Multiple Intelligences Results :D

This is my multiple intelligence result! hehe
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Year 8 First Art ! (Hello)

I am sooooo excited cos this my 1st blog for 2008!!!
I know that this year in Art that everything will be wonderful!