Project R-E-L-A-Y

THURSDAY

Visiting Tate Modern
Good primar exercises

We try to capture the emotions/ feelings of the art work.  Then we read, comprehend , express the message of the artwork.  It was hard to do but trying to see through the symbols, signs, gestures of the object.  The best founding is everyone sees things differently,  the messages we received from the work differs with others.

I like abstracts.
I like abstract forms.
I like imperfect lines or marks.
I like the way of drawing the object that the drawing doesn't really look like the actual object.  You can sense its existence , you may know what it is, but it doesn't look like what you thought it is.  Just like a SURPRISE, which the artist offers.   It won't please you , but it entertains you.  You have to guess or imagine.   The work gives a hint of mystery.   Thats what I learnt from the thursday exercises.

Swapping sketchbooks and make a work - Round 1
It took me loads of time to think.  I had 4 days.  And I have been using all of these days to think over and over again.  I have been very unsatisfied with most of my preceding ideas.  Then, I came up with the good one at last.  I made Sailor Potato.  I wish to boost the self esteem of the sick potato chair. ( the original work)

Refer to my previous blog post:
http://kkkkonglily.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/sailor-potato-transformation.html



TUESDAY

Swapping sketchbooks and make a work - Round 2

We swapped sketchbooks again and made a work.   This time I got a video and a figure.  The figure which Coral made , was very interesting.  She fried a tissue paper figure in a pan.  It burnt.  The whole thing gave me a feeling of death and being rotten.   But the figure was facing up.  seemed like it was still hoping for a rescue or a rebirth.   

So I put plants in a bottle of oil.   Plants cant live in oil.  They die.  In the meantime, the plant was still facing up, hoping to grab a hint of sunshine.    

THURSDAY

Presentation
Capturing the essence of a work was amazing.  You get a mood or a feeling, rather than drawing its shape or shadows only.





Flow of my project:

coral's sketchbook:

Inspired by the above, my work:

Another turn: 

Coral's work

Inspired by the above, my work:

Drawing workshop week 1 : sound and text

 Illustrating sound was quite a difficult task.  We try not to draw tangible objects, but abstract ones.  All of us were expected to draw abstractly.  Yet do we really need to draw "abstractly" for sound?  Cant we just illustrate in tangible objects?   And think while you draw?     I wasn''t trying to think sensibly but imagine you listen to a "hoo-hfoooo" sound, can't we imagine and think more than a wind blowing sound?   is it angular or smooth?  is it rounded and squared?   I tried not to think or imagine when I listened to the sound, then I made some marks on the paper.  I wasn't sure if I was doing right.

Illustrating text or a word was a fresh experience, especially when I have never ever loved reading poems.  I dont always understand the emotions.  Too deep.  I drew a few things for the text.  It was rather story-like.