Caligraphy

Calligraphy art amazes me in all sorts of ways. It needs patience to learn how to make the brush strokes look graceful in the painting. Some parts needs to be darker and some other parts needs to be lighter to bring out the tone and contrast. When it is mastered correctly, it will look like a normal painting, but with a bit of traditional Chinese painting.

Most of the time, we have always thought that painting is just another form of art. But when you think about it, painting is not only art, but it expresses emotions and feelings into each one of them. It tells a story behind each painting, and some of this stories are very touching or very sad, and this type of stories always teaches us about life at the very end.

 
Calligraphy by Phoon Wai Chee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Singapore License.

Buttefly or Eagle?

This picture was taken outside of my house.Why a picture of a butterfly? If you look closely, you are able to see that there are 2 eagles' head on the wings of the butterfly. It amazed me how a butterfly has wings that look like an eagle's head. This is an ambiguous art. From what I've learnt in 2D's class, ambiguous art is where you can see two different kind of pictures formed into one. This picture can also relate to us in a way that we took advantage of everything that we tend to overlooked on the nature side of the world. The forest, insects,animals etc. If only we take a little time away from our electronics or work and spend some time in the nature, that is where we are able to catch the most beautiful scenery that we often ignored.

Butterfly or Eagle by Nurul Haqidah Isham is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Seasons in the Sun

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

I was inspired to do the above art work based on this experience and these emotions of mine.
When I was a little girl during my summers I used to go visit my grandparents. They used to live in the state of Gujarat. They had a swing outside their house, that’s where I spent most of my time. That was the best feeling in the world. No matter how hot it was I would not feel a thing because I was simply enjoying the wind in my face.

Also this time that I spent on those swings is when I would get to interact with my older cousin brother.  This was when we would talk and get to know each other and soon he become one of my favorite cousins. We used to love spending all our time on those swings. Not only then but at times the whole family would gather around there especially during the nights and we would all have long talks.

Apart from all these sweet memories that I shared with my family I all together love swings. The experience gives me joy. The feeling of touching the sky, the feeling of the wind in my face, the feeling of just not caring about anything in the world and most of all the feeling of freedom is what I enjoy the most. 

The song Seasons In The Sun by Westlife explains beautifully my emotion. 


seasons in the sun

Photography is the Past

Photography is the Past by Kelly Chua is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Singapore License.

This photo was taken 2 years back in Hong Kong, when I went there with my cousin. It was our first time there, and we spent most of our time in Tsim Sha Tsui because I really love the food and girls being girls, I think it is a shopping paradise there.

I really love this street in Tsim Sha Tsui so I just took a photo of it. I feel that photography allows me to capture the moment of life or rather how I feel at the moment; just by pressing the button of the camera. To say that what we see in photographs is gone is just stating the obvious. Looking at photograph is just looking at the past. Once the particular moment is gone, it’s never coming back, just like any other moments.

The fact that something is gone makes photographs so poignant and it is what makes photographs memories. This again, is obvious because memories concern the past.

Textures

This art piece was done during a drawing fundamentals module. We were supposed to go around our school compound to get as many textures as we can. We had rice papers and crayons provided by our lecturer. We were asked to draw any object and use our collected textures to paste on it. I find this lesson quite interesting as an object usually has one or two textures. But, we were not restricted to just a few textures. We were encouraged to paste as many textures as we can on our object. In this case, I drew a car. It was quite a sight as there isn’t a car that is made up of so many different textures on the outside. I thought it might look weird but it turned out not too bad after I had filled up all the white spaces. I feel that art should not be limited in its imagination. Instead, it should have no limits, where we can draw anything, even if it doesn’t exist in the world.

Textures by Jessica Koh is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Singapore License.

still life painting

observational painting by ANGELENE HO is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

This is a still life painting i did two weeks ago, initially we had to place the 'objects' right infront of our drawing space and we had to observe how it is and paint it accordingly. however as the time went by the capsicums spoiled and i had to rely on a photo i took of it to paint. It was quite challenging as i had to mix the colours till it was just right and also the painting must be of proportion. As soon as i completed this painting i felt a sense of achievement as it requires patience and all along i lose my patience easily.

Three point perspective drawing

Three point perspective drawing by Alphonsine Koh is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Singapore License.

This is a Three point perspective drawing of a building. This is a worm-eye view of the building where the viewer looks up to where the object is. Three point perspective includes a horizon and three vanishing points. Perspective drawing is very technical and is different when compared to observational drawing. Most of the time, the drawing does not turn out like the picture taken or the place observe and therefore it may confuse beginners. However, with a little practice you will soon be able to get a hold of it! It is advisable to learn One and Two point perspective first though as it is the basics of perspective drawing. If you are interested in self-learning perspective drawing, you can also look up the internet and these step-by-step lessons are just a click away! You can even purchase this book if you would like It has really informative and interesting lessons on perspective drawings, even with cartoons. I hope this sparked your interest in perspective drawings!