V I C T O R I A: 2012

Personal x Project : Wall Stenciling

Applying the stenciling knowledge I obtained from our monogram assignment, I came out with a wall with an orange tree and several pots of flowers (to be continued)

It was for my neighbour's balcony wall.

Though it was a tedious process standing up and squatting and kneeling down, I had so much fun!

Final Assignment : Batik

For our 2D Design final assignment, it was a group project. A batik project that consists of four members in a group. For this project I worked together with Chi Yan, Jowin and Carmen. We decided on an Alice in Wonderland theme.

This is my final sketch. I'm in charge of doing the top blouse for Alice.

The class and batik-making was conducted in the batik factory in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, Jadi Batek.

Witnessing the workers there making batik live and listening to the explanations.

Materials for batik drawing

The hot wax used for drawing the batik patterns

They prepared an outline of a drawing for us, but our class did not make use of it as we had to draw the sketches we had to fulfil the project requirement.

Range of colors

fabric dyes

Sketched out the sketch I had on my portion of the fabric

This was my final

The four of our batik. Top left : Chi Yan's. Bottom left : Mine. Top right : Jowin's. Bottom right : Carmen's.

I compiled the four of our batik together. Its 'Alice'.

And this was the final final. Washed and packaged by Jadi Batek.

Assignment 6 : Painting to music

We had two canvas to work on, an hour (if I'm not wrong) for each, measuring in 3x3ft.

The first one was with classical music playing in the background. My colour choices were purple, pink and pastel yellow.

I was feeling 'flowy' with the music so I painted with my hands and fingers and drew on jellyfishes because I personally am really fond of jellyfishes. Plus they're pretty and 'flowy' under the sea.

The second one was with pop and RnB music.

There was a song (I couldn't remember which) but I was hooked to the beat the song has so I had an idea of painting the camouflage pattern. I wanted something to be striking in the middle of the canvas so I thought what other colours would work other than red with the ones thats available to me at that point. Also, it was because of Ms Lisa's Tesco bag with lady bugs printed on it that I decided to draw on a lady bug as well.

The whole look came across to me as the war period..when Japan was conquering and there were innocent blood (white) and death of many many other people (black) seen. So that pretty much sums up the idea I had behind my second canvas.

I had it hung in my house hallway and each time I look at it it reminds me of the war period and that I should be thankful I'm living so well right now.