Interconnected Homes

"Interconnected Homes"

For this piece, I decided to look into my background and look into my life. The style of this piece is of a Malaysian batik, which is a cloth that is painted on and used as clothing usually. In this painting, I decided to paint two hibiscus flowers, which are the national flowers of Malaysia, and then two personalized flowers that I have been known for drawing everywhere. Furthermore, there is rope that connects these flowers and this large form, as a whole, represents me as a person. The larger hibiscus represents Malaysia, my home country, and the smaller one represents Holland, my second home. The flower that is situated in the middle is my interpretation and adaptation of a Dahlia flower and it is a flower that I tend to draw when I doodle or when I paint flowers in general. Furthermore, the bright red of the flowers are contrasted by the cool colors of the background and thus this allows the flowers to stand out the most from the rest. Also, the small designs in the background are to give a more batik feeling to it, since in batiks there are small designs in addition to the "main attraction" of it.

Colours and I

"Colours and I"

In preparation for this project, we visited several exhibitions to inspire our main ideas. We visited the Matisse and the Fauves exhibit, in addition to the Lucien Freud exhibit. To figure out what I wanted to do for this self portrait. I decided to list things that define me; such as my cultural background and my hobbies etc. Thus, I decided to create block-like figures in the background of my portrait to resemble CD cases stacked up. However, due to the visit to see works by Matisse and the Fauves, I was inspired to use brighter colors and to stay constant in color choice. In addition, I decided to take information from the workshop with Kamilla Szíj and used repetitive lines in the background.

Abstract Kards

"Abstract Kards"

In class, we did a workshop with a Hungarian artist named Kamilla Sz íj. Szíj creates abstract pieces that are filled with lines and patterns which are drawn on small cards and traced on paper. In the workshop, we were given four small cards and we had the liberty to draw patterns which will ultimately create our final piece. After making these patterns, we traced our cards with thin paper and again had the liberty to change the sequence of the cards and also to overlap the patterns with different colors. It was a very interesting experience and it was enjoyable to learn a new way of creating an abstract piece.

Couleur

"Couleur"

My first piece of the school year, "Couleur", was inspired by a summer assignment called "20 Variations". We had to choose an object and explore it visually in 20 different ways. My object was a wooden fan. It is evident that my final project is not of a fan, but the leaves integrated in this piece remind of a fan. I decided to use bright acrylic paints to contrast with the simple black and white charcoal background. To create the leaves, I put random amounts of paint on one side of a paper and then folded the paper in half, creating a symmetrical pattern on paint. Furthermore I cut the product in either a leaf-like form, or in its' original form.