StarGazer 2011

A year after the Warm Orchids painting, another cousin was impressed and decided that they should get a painting similar to the Warm Orchids. So an opportunity not to be missed.

Painting on a large scale canvas is quite fun when you get to express yourself through paint and brush. I love using dark coloured backgrounds for the flowers as it will bring out the contrast and highlight more on the flower.

Painting orders such as these kind of decoratives are good start ups in gaining back my skills in painting.

Stargazer
Oil paint on canvas
2011

The family who ordered this painting.
2011

Glad they loved the painting.
Thanks for reading!

-Kiki.

Wings Runway 2007

In pairs, the requirements for this 'Wings' project is that it has to be at least 2x2metres and it must be stable enough to be worn.

Designing it was not as hard as it is to execute the final product. 

                      

Materials  such as various sizes of crochet hooks to knit the yarn into strands of loops to make up the soft texture around the main metal wired body structure.

This is how we transformed the balls of yarn into knitted ones. Learning it from my partner, she thought me various ways to knit so we executed it together.

We decided that she wears the wings for the presentation on the Lasalle runway. Below are pictures of how we presented our wings.

There were various styles of wings created by other classmates.

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-kiki.

Pop Art Mural @ Fuchun Primary School 2007

Spammed with endless variations of projects during our 1st year in Fine Arts Foundation, mural projects was one of my favourite projects as it was an outdoor project where we were engaged by Fuchun Primary School to display our Work of Art.

this was the space given to us for mural.

Before we actually started our Mural painting, the measurement and dimensions of the section that we were supposed to paint on had to be taken down to sketch out our plan. 

We were divided into groups of fives and each group member was required to produce their own ideas with reference artists to combine into one. Using Andy Warhol and Keith Haring as our references, we manage to combine it with a smooth flow from the left to right of the walls to balancing these two artists as well as our own ideas.

Me and my group mate painting the background colour.

Filling in the 'Dancing Figures' with white.

Me outlining.

17 year old Me painting one of the dancing figures.

We took over a few weeks to finish the mural during and non-contact hours. I guess the only difficulty that i faced in the process of the mural was reaching the higher part of the wall. It was exciting to work together as a team with the background sounds of kids running around and screaming which brought a sense of nostalgic chilhood memories then in the early 90s.

These are the pictures of the finished work.

After we finished everything we were awarded with this certification for our contribution. I feel honored that Fuchun Primary School granted us the opportunity to paint on the walls designated in their school.

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-kiki.

Nocturnal 2005

"Colour pencil sketching is gonna be hard." I thought so to myself ehile trying to experiemnt on a different medium in preparation of my GCE 'O' level 2005 Art examination Paper 3 which is on the spot drawing.

Nocturnal was one of the 5 topics that i chose from for my paper 3 and preparatory work was required  for submission along with the final artwork. 

Why owl? Simply because that was the first thing that i think off upon the word Nocturnal.

Owl
Colourpencil on Paper
4" x 6"
2005

Night Scenery
Pencil on Paper
297mm x 210mm
2005

I did not expect my colourpencil sketches to be exceptionally ok. To me that is. that's when i discovered my strength which also moved me to create the final piece in my previous entry. 

These are the other experimental sketches before the final owl above. Using pencil was not as interesting as it was when using colour pencils. The outcome of coloured pencils really depends on the sensitivity and pressure of rendering.

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- kiki.

Passion 2005

Roses are one of the significant flowers to us which usually is a representation of love, passion or desire.

Its petals are soft and together as a whole it forms this unique pattern that grows outwards in a twirl which causes it to overlap each other.

Drawing and sketching out roses are quite challenging because of its unique structure and contours of the folds and the depth of the folds needed to be darkened and curves needed highlights to display a realistic drawing of a rose.

Completing an artwork with the use of only colour pencils was even tougher as u could not subtract mistakes and for highlighted portions needed to be uncoloured or coloured with extremely light or without much pressure as to allow blending in between.

The end product of it was a relief and satisfying though the message about my passion in guitar was not that strong because of the lack of concept at that point of time, I still got an A2 grade for my 'O' level Art in 2005.

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- kiki.

Pinhole Camera 2013

One of the photography lesson is to create a pinhole camera. This is to experience the old chemical photography way in order to understand the roots of photography. It is amazing how a simpl cardboard A4 paper box can project images such as this through an aluminum sheet with a tiny whole punched in the centre allowing light to pass through to expose the Ilford photography paper so that the images could be projected and then developed in the dark room with the respective chemicals.

These are the Ilford photo papers that have been exposed to light on a sunny day and have been developed in the dark room. One vertical and one horizontal view from the 3rd storey at wing A.

After developing the negatives, we then need to convert them into positive images by directing the image onto a new photo paper and expose it with light on the enlarger for a positive image and this is the end product.

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-kiki.

Photogram Part 2 2013

The requirement for Photogram was that the objects must be translucent and that it must have a meaning behind what we composed. Since Sheldon gave us an extension to redo if the outcome of the last photogram was unsatisfying, I decided to make use of the opportunity to do more to allow myself to choose the best out of all.

It was tough deciding on which I should submit as a final piece when I had more variety of Photograms. Since I took more time in composing this final piece, I mounted it on a compressed foam to hand it up for submission. 

There is a huge difference in comparison to the first few try outs and the final piece. 

I found out that through practice, experiments and opinions, the outcome will turn out better. 

This lesson of photography was an experience not to be forgotten as this was a rare learning opportunity that I could not have learnt if I had not enrolled myself in NAFA.

Thanks for reading!

-Kiki.