Documentary

I guess this is it, the final post of the day? (Unless I feel like sharing other bits and pieces of other things but meh)

I will like to present, our last project for Contextual Studies; Documentary. Before I showed you guys the video, let me do the honors and say that before this, we had interviewed three other people but due to lack of contextual meaning behind it. We thought 'oh bugger!' seriously. WE WERE SO DOWN. But it just gave me the motivation to try something new. I had a few people in my mind that I hoped that I could get in touch with. But before that, enjoy our journey for the documentary.

I remember during Urbanscapes, we had been wanting to search on people for our documentary but due to the timing issue and the crowd, we couldn't. But we found this guy. It was pretty cool seeing how he wows the crowd. His name is Calvin, He's a dj. He's in a group called 'Twilight Action Girl'. Most of the song he plays are indie songs and some jazz here and there.

Second stop is Vivian from the shop Hebe. All of the accessories here are handmade by her. From keychains to hair ties to rings to pursers to just about anything! It was pretty 'WOW' from me when I saw her showing us a demonstration of a handmade piece she made for us using just zippers and buttons. You could see Jessica holding it.

 

The next one is Clay Shop. The owner of this shop is Chris. He is a clay artist and currently conduct his classes to people who are interesting making clay from just about anything. We actually saw a few students making such beautiful clay pieces.

Now we move on. Move ooooon

After the class with Mr Charles, we realized omg we had to do it all over again but honestly, I knew that we had to do something different. So I was contemplating on three people. One of them is U-Wei Hj Saari, an award winning Malaysian film director. Next one was a fashion designer that goes by the name of John Paris and the last one is an Oil Painter, Xing Ning. Too bad two of them are currently overseas busy with work. Thankfully Xing Ning was there!

You see, I had been going to Oil Classes from October until December. I had a blast during the classes and I loved my art work. Pretty good for a beginner okay! haha, let me share with you :)

Artwork by Tengku Namira Alya

(L-R) Namira, Vanessa, Jin, Xing Ning, Jessica and Tiffany

Let's get back! Anyway, Xing Ning runs an art academy called ' Claz'room ' with her classmate Jin. The school has been running for about 3 years and are doing great! They mostly focused on media arts. For every art classroom, it is name for artist such as if you're studying oil painting, your class will be under 'Van Gogh'. They also have classrooms like 'Picasso', 'Dali' and many more. Honestly I think it's kinda genius and cute.

LETS WATCH THE INTERVIEW!

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Anticipate it until the upcoming and final post; The Documentary!

 

LAMPTURE

For the Final Project for 2D Design, we have to form a group and present a work that contains texture, texture and more texture! The moment I’d looked into the topic I remembered way back during Semester 1’s trip when we were given a task by Mr Ernesto search for various types of texture. I admit it did helped.

So all of us decided to make 4 types of lamps (From dimmed to light) that each has its own unique texture. Even the lamp stand! The lamp stand is made by using paper clay and as for the design, hand (pun intended) made! We used our finger prints and thumbs for the texture

First we have the Japanese Lantern inspired lamp. We used the ‘satay’ sticks to have the bamboo effect. The pattern of the top of the lamp is also inspired by the Japanese sliding doors (Shoji).

Second we have the Potpourri Silhouette lampshade. You could see those little pink coloured potpourri we have put inside the lamp. When you turn it on, you could see the silhouette of it. 

The third one is the Rose Wood Roses Lampshade. The shape is quite fresh to see right? Though you can’t see it from the photo, we have put dried roses for some of the bottom parts of the lampshade.

The last one is my favourite; Crystal Diamond Lampshade. I’d like to share with you something. This last lampshade was purely made by accident. We were actually done with lamps until we started playing with the glue gun with the PVC sheet until that light bulb(pun intended HAHA)

in our heads was turn on. BAM! We decided to end our lamp series with this simple yet sophisticated design. It has wintery effect don’t you think?

TESSELLATIONS

We were given the task to do 6 types of Tessellation. It was quite a challenge for me because I am not really an expert at making them. At first I had to admit because of time constraint I wondered how on earth can I finish this on an A2 size paper. But despite the difficulties, I managed to produce 6 very different types of Tessellation.

Tessellation goes back from M.C. Escher and William Morris. By seeing his artwork, I was inspired to do different types of patterns. I have to say, it did provoke my art sense in way that yes, art involves some mathematical thinking. Through Tessellation, we have to calculate how those pieces fit together to form an image. I won’t say it’s an easy task because it actually takes time to make sure it’s perfect.

The first one is Figure Ground:

Here is an image of waves. The pattern is quite simple and the colours make it obvious to tell that it’s waves

The second one is Closure

I chose to make a side profile of a face to show some sort of a closure pattern.

Third is Proximity

 

Could you guess what the image forms? If it wheels then you guessed it correctly! Proximity is basically images that goes from big to small or vice versa

Fourth is Similarity

Simple and quick. Similarity could also be related to repetition as the patterns are quick similar. Here I have a honeycomb inspired design

Fifth is Continuity.

Hmm, quick shiny isn’t it. Just the way I wanted it to be. When I think of Elevators, the image form in my mind is basically colours that are simple but captures the human eye.

Final one is Alignment.

Yes ants. Tiny in reality aren’t they? I chose ants because it fits in this category. When I think of ants (besides being a pain) I think how they form a line when they are in a group. Like a tiny teamwork friendship. Plus it reminded me of the animated movie Ants.

These are more various kinds of Tessellation that I helped me along the way.

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

To end it. Tessellation is indeed an interesting subject to practice on It’s just a matter of the desire and of course, dedication to do it. At start I had dislike how the rough sketch had looked but once I finish with the work; coloured it. I loved it. Definitely will do someday but not soon.
 
A little fact: Tessellation comes from the Latin word Tessella, which means a small cube or a tile.

Batik

As everyone (should) know, batik is made from using a manual wax-resist dyeing technique you would normally put on a piece of cloth. I kid you you not, it takes patience and skill to make batiks.

 JOURNEY
We had a batik trip the other day and initially we were supposed to go to Terengganu but due to the bad weather, it became a day trip. The day started with everyone going to the bus when suddenly haha I was asked to join by my friends to go with them by car. Though hesitant because I had a sense something bad is going to happen, I joined. Turns out we got lost. For about 2 hours. I swear the whole entire ride I thought about was omg I am never gonna do this ever again lol.

We went around circles in Kl and even outside of KL, but the last 30 minutes. I’ve had it and decided to call my dad because he works in Berjaya and who knows, maybe he knows the way. -He knows the way. Thank you Father. HAHA. When we were reaching, we contacted Mr Charles just in case the road was correct and we were right (finally)

So we rush the last 15 minutes and managed to make our batik. A MIRACLE I had come up with 4 designs but due to time constraint, I had to choose the simpler onw but at the end of it, it came out nice! Inspired by modern batik.

CONCEPT

The theme was water and those are shells as you can see. The streaks of colours emanating from the shell are their reflections from the sunlight and also it’s like the other parts of nature had a role in making the colour change. Each colour has it owns representation; Blue colour represents Tranquility, Purple represents both Creativity and Imagination, Pink represents Femininity. The shells on the other hand, give offs a comfortable energy.

FACT:

Batik was very popular back during the olden days in our country, Malaysia. The trend unfortunately died down due to exposure of other new types of fabrics that were selling in Malaysia. But not until the late great Datin Paduka Seri Endon Mahmood came into the picture and made a move; make it come back alive by modernizing it. She made the batiks looked fresh and sophisticated. She wanted Batik to be a success not only locally but internationally as well.

FACT 2:

Did you know that the people who work for the government have to wear batik every Thursday?

Silhouette

I've always admired how artist managed to make silhouette into a piece of art. Just from something simple could turn out into something captivating to the human eye.

We were given the task to present a silhouette art; either comic or a scene from a movie that Mr Charles wanted us to watch. I chose to make a silhouette based from a scene from Silent Hill Revelation. Before that let me get started on what makes silhouette art so interesting.

Key point here: minimal. Silhouette art doesn't have to be too detail. Just imagine it to be shadow but the edges are refined. Of course what makes the art so special is also the colour; black over white. This could also relate to the Gestalt Principle: Figure Ground.

Silhouette goes way back. In countries such as Indonesia and Indonesia,Wayang Kulit is a form of a silhouette that can be counted as a performance. It plays around as a shadow puppetry. Shadow Puppetry originated during the Han Dynasty.

I came across Lotte Reiniger's Hansel&Gretel Silhouette animation video and was astounded by it Such a work of art. Lotte was inspired by the Chinese art of silhouette puppetry.

 

 

Silhouette for me is somehow a story telling you're telling to the public. Though simple, the message is there. Like they say, a picture says a thousand words. I could say the same thing to silhouettes.

The scene you're gonna look down there was inspired during the last fighting scene between the characters. This is my own interpretation. Instead doing a comic style or a view, I decided to make a poster of it. The grown-up Heather is fighting her young self who was once trapped in Silent Hill. I put those grills to make it seems like a barrier from 'the other world'. The fire element I've drawn there is to depict the mood and how it's eating the place up.