"Hands On Project Evaluation

"Hands On" Evaluation 

Through this project, I was looks into elements and principles of design. To help me keep in track with all the definition, we were giving a task to create 14 glossary pages using different materials and techniques within each glossary page. Sometime I would also need to get my ideas from secondary resources such as artist or Pinterest, which I used to find more techniques from Pinterest but I'm also using primary resources such as taking photo of my own hand, family or families. Using all the techniques and materials to match the meaning of each in elements and principles, I came to realise what kind of affect each piece has. For example Proration and rhythm, even though I'm using a same material but there different because rhythm is about movement and proration is about scaling so they would have different meaning and techniques within each piece.

During the each workshop, I was looks and learns new stuffs in the workshop and even though some of them I may already have known, yet I still learning quite few in the each workshop. Such as in Photography, this is my first time learning about photography and it was quite difficult but in the end, I understand most basic and how camera can be affected the photo and different settles with different angle can also change style of the images. Next workshop was ceramic, even though I already know what to do in this workshop but I still haven’t learn quite a few stuffs about how to made an sculpture without them falling apart and the tutor was taught me how to remove the airs from clay, which it was really helpful because she also explaining the reason why we have to removes the airs from the clay, it may make the sculpture explored after it got burn but the most important things that I thought it was quite useful was improving my solving problem skills because I have to make sure the sculpture doesn’t fall and actually stick each parts together. 3D woodwork taught me how to plan my work out and thinks about the next step before do it. Print-making taught me the key term with meaning and what’s chine colle. Another thing is, it help me remembering that I should just keep my imaginations open wild because with zentangle, I need to have my open to create a patterns from my head.  I already know about ow to screen printing and batik but what I learned about textile was how to heat transfer, puff binder and paper making and embroidery. How puff binder and screen printing is quite amazing together when become one and heat transfer was really great even though I have to be careful while using it but totally worth learning it.

Even with all those things that I have learned, I still have a lots to improve, such as my time management, organisation and being creative. The reason why I think I have problem with those skills, is because at first, I couldn't manages get everything done in time, even though done all my blog, 10 pages on my sketchbook and everything completed in the workshop but doing 20 glossary pages was taking too much times, it wasn't really worth it because the quality wasn’t in the excellent standard, next time I will improves it and write what need to be done in each week. I’m having quite a lots of problem with being creatives even though I mostly using my own ideas to create my artwork but after looks into other people works in Pinterest, I always wanting to change my ideas because they got a better quality work than I do, which causing me to have trouble with making my own decision but I still enjoy doing it, even though it wasn’t great like an artist but I been taught different things in each workshops and explored the materials with different techniques. 

Elements and Principles of Design

During the first and second week into the project, we were introduced to element of design and we were asked to made an glossary contain from those elements with every each of them will have an definitions. Elements and Principles of Design, there are 7  of art meanings for each designs so that make up 14 elements.

Elements of Design;
Line / Shape / Space / Texture / Colour / Value / Form
Learning to understand the different techniques and the uses of materials also explaining each elements definitions for all the glossary pages. For this start, i choose to do colour and texture because it's what I'm usually like doing the most and thinks it would be the easiest one, out of all the elements.

Principles of Design;
Pattern / Contrast / Emphasis / Balance / Proposition / Harmony / Rhythm.
I'm starting off with patterns and emphasis because of my personal interests so i decided to do those two in the class then i will completed other in my own times.

 Elements of Design:

Materials i used on colour is acrylic paint and pencil. At first i free draw the hand with pencil, looking at my own hand and it's take awhile to get it right but i still done it. After that i draw with the paint.

Texture, materials i used is line paper, hard brush and acrylic paint. However i made the mistake at first by trying to make it into collage but end up realise it's wrong so I tried to rip it off, make the background has texture and stick the line papers on the hands shape.

The materials used on Space was ink colour and acrylic pain. At first i draw a hands with pencil, adding details etc. and after that using end of the brushes, i draw onto the pencil and colour the background with black paint to create those spaces.

 Shape, i wanted to use different materials but similar background colour. techniques that i used was cool and warms colour and to make it into shape, i draw the position of the hand in shape on the middle. I used chalk to colour the hands and oil pastels to covers the background. 

Line, two materials that i use was broad/liner and water colour. Drawing the hands with liner/broad and after that carefully colour the background with watercolour.

Form, materials that i used was pencil to draw the basic of hand, after that i paint it and finish off with colour the background with water colour.

Value, material that i used is pencil and broad. Picking up the deep lines with dark pencil and lightly add little details with lighter pencil.

Principles of Design

Patterns, i used started the pencil to draw simple basic of the hand with patterns and after that, draw on top with broad/liner after completed that, I'm trying to make the background also become patterns so i add draw an background with colour pencil.

Similar techniques and materials as patterns. 

Emphasis, using paint to colour the background and hand.

Harmony, At first i was drawing the hands with pencil and went over it with acrylic paint then using sponge with colour paint of top, it doesn't looks right so i draw the outside with ink.

both have same techniques and material. All i used was pencil to do a quick sketch and after that i draw the hand with ink, using bottom of the brush, adding the details with ink as well.

Using pencil and acrylic paint, drawing the hands with pencil and after paint on top.

Week 5, Hands on Project

Workshop: Textile

Last week of hands on project. 

In this class I was learning how to Paper making, Screen printing and Batik.

Beginning of the section, our tutor was telling us about health and safety and what we would be doing, after that we can start working on what we wanting to do between screen printing and batik. I choose to do batik because it's quick and easy to do.

This workshop is one of my favourite workshop because i used to do work in this workshop for my final piece from last week so i know quite few things in this workshop. However i also learning new techniques in this lesson, such as how to paper making, puff binder, embroidery and heat transfer. 

Batik

Materials that I need or was be using is procion dye, paint paint brush, wax pot, wax tjanting tool, paper and fabric. Even though it may be hard to draw with free hand but it's also ok to draw with pencil but it's must be really light. First thing that i did is drawing an hand lightly with the pencil, after that, i was making sure the wax in wax pot is all melted and ready to be use and another thing to remember is tjanting tool is also warm. After making sure everything is ready, I started to draw on the paper, this techniques require a lots of patient because the wax is quickly dry after it got remove from the wax pot so i always have to put the tjanting back into the wax pot, then i paint on top using procion dye to make it looks colourful and interesting.

Screen Printing

After done a few of batik, i choose to do screen printing. 

Material that i would need to be using is squeegee, hose pipe, screen, fabric and black/white paper. First thing that i did was puts blank paper under the screen, after that i put the print on the screen, after that use the squeegee slides up and down 2-3 times, lift the screen up and then check your print. You should get the print that you wanted on screen.

Example of how to do screen printing:

Paper making

Material that i need to use is frame, paper pulp, j-cloth and sponge.

the first thing that i did was getting all the materials ready , put the paper pulp ready in the water, after that get a frame, put it down in the draw where paper pulp is in, lift it up trying to get rid of the water then cover it with j-cloth then flip the frame to other side on the table, use a sponge to get rid of the water from the frame, gently remove the frame from the paper pulp and i got the my own paper making. All I have to do right now is waiting for it to dry before i can use it.

Example of how to make paper making:

Example of how i made Heat Transfer: 

 

Health and Safely

Week 4, Hands on Project

Workshop: Print-Making
Today i was learning how to print making, relief printing and chine colle. The meaning of what's la poupee, henna and zentangle?
Start of lesson we were just talking about the meaning of la poupee, henna and zentangle. Then after that, we are wanting to do some practical and looks up into zentangle. Zentangle is an easy to learn method of creating a lovely images from structured.

Materials that i used in this piece of art work is pencil, brayer, lino, ink print and cutter/cutter details.

After complete drawing the zentangle, it's time to looks into lino printing onto paper, but before that i would need to draw the patterns i would like to draw on the lino and then i can carve the patterns on it.



However i used to do this last year as well so i know what am i doing but i also got an basic example of how to lino cut.

I'm quite enjoying this section because it's also helping me learning different new techniques and meaning in the keywords

This is another techniques that i learned. This one called chine colle, using an tissue paper to stick on the blank paper, make it match the patterns then after that lino print on top of it to make a single or whole part standout from other.

Health and Safety in this workshop:

Example point of how i did it:


((Details will be coming soon))

Week 3, Hands on Project

This week i was learning What's creativity? 

It's when you are using your imagination to create something. However if you couldn't think of anything, then it would be easier to get some inspiration from internet or books to get your head some kicks started. 

Who can be creativity? 

Anyone can be creativity but not everyone is good at that. Most group of people who would likely to use their creativity on their work is children, art student, designer, art teacher etc. anything that involved around creativity.

What kind of environment can you be creativity? 

Outdoors or Indoors, natural, landscape, art classroom, art studio, art galley, museum etc. I would personally looks out of window, trying to clear my head and 

What can affect your creativity?

Environment and emotions. Reason is because if you were trying to focus but the environment you were working on is noisy and mess, it may affect your thinking but i think emotions can be very affected more than environment, because if your emotions is down and you were trying to create something cheerful, then that may affect your design.

Can creativity be measured?

You can company to other people so you can improve your skills. But I personally think you can't measured it because everyone have different ideas and their own unique styles. 

Workshop: 3D Woodwork. 
In this lesson we were learning how to make hands model out of the white cardboard by using shape-scape techniques. The materials that we were been giving was  Cutting matt, scalpel, craft knife and puncher.

However, i didn't know much about what to do because i wasn't in the class during that day. But i already knew the simple basic because i used to do this in high school before so it's easy to plan out. The first thing that i did was drawing out where i want the hand to be like and then draw the slot where i wanting each piece to connected with eachother.  After i done planning out the basic, i finally got it cut out but not everything went well as planned. Reason because some piece is smaller than other so i have to redo it again, even though it take a few times to do it but i got it right at end.

I really enjoy this workshop because it's help teaching me different techniques and what shape-scape is. Most importantly, it's also help me become more independence because after one of the tutor explain the basic example but after that i have to do it on my own.

Safety in this workshop.
Use sufficiently sized cutting mats or boards (Not desk tops)
For straight lines use safety ruler( Bot flat steel ruler)
All equipment should be in good condition - Shape blade and a strong handle.
When using knife, making sure don't cut towards your body or hands.