Reveal the Paper Sculpture

It's time for the reveal. i cannot wait any longer. imagine having to wait five days before being able to work on something. 



 

going off to help with the No Wonder gang now.  To my dismay, my paper sculpture's still not try.  and there's no consolation.  The mould is craked in places, all over. 

No Wonder

3.08 pm

as i went up to get my blappy, ( gulli 

felt that it was too quiet and was making

him feel stressed out) i pulled some 

level 1 kids down to help out with stuff.

elapsed 1 hour.  

we ran outta wires.  during the hour, 

hands got cut, scratched, then bandaged.

this is turning out so well.  i'm really honoured to be part of this. have to rush off to baybeats now.

it was busy but i felt i was in control.

it was busy but i felt i was in control.

finally. everything's been exposed. here's one of the test prints.

i'm finally home. nothing worked out  for me today. disappointed not only myself but the people around me. feel very dejected. can;t help but feel weak. so weak n hopeless. will describe the crazy day some other time. for now i need to work on  my designs for exposing later at 9 sharp.

Flowerism

gonna have to take a break now.  been at it since 9.30am.  i failed to notice even when the Germans came with backpacks.  i kept hallucinating that someone's behind me all the time, and sometimes i get a little jumpy when someone really taps me on my back.  

ringing ringing.  The Way I Am has been playing in loop at the back of my purkinjes.  i love it love it love it so much,  it lifts my spirits by ...errr... i dunno how to continue the sentence.

Casting 

the kids were doing drawing .  serious drawing with measurements so that they can draw as accurately as possible.  

very proud of the kids today.  they listened, concentrated and enjoyed the whole process. it was good to have a small class today . 

the hybrid theory(1) and ready steady go(2). just submitted these to the organiser.

talking to mr effyducks now.  he was my 3d lecturer whilst i was still in  foundation.  sheebee mentioned him in tutorial juz now and i signed into msn to check if he was around and HE WAS ONLINE!  

had a chat with him for a while and learnt that he's not teaching in college already because they didn't need that many part timers.  

effyducks was very nice and helpful. he actually attempted to find a link on youtube about casting cups coz i told him a little about her aims.  how sweet! anyway, he gave this link to me so i could  show wanita one way of creating the mould for her self proposal project.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPSI1wUOBnk&NR=1

Hehe.

The Hybrid Theory

just finished second sketch for the baybeats t-shirt design.  wont use the chick-hamster , it just doesn't work. didn;t bring my pens home.  need to reach studioland as early as i can again.  i love bluepink's guitar.  the acoustics-brilliant.  

ref pics 

"flower"

i might be threading on the toes of humanity. the human condition.  i don't know yet.  i need to consult sheebee.  i'm feeling a little light headed today.  i hope storm clouds have passed.  and prof is calling me a "flower".  and added an "idiot" right behind it.  

8 in studioland

i love the way the shadows of my guppies are cast upon the small rock.  That unfocused movement of grey is beautiful.  i love the atmosphere of 8 in studioland.  

the mystery of one lost, second gone remains.  

then the crowd washed in like the waves coming onto shore, and the suns rose with the flick of the switch.  the albinos start their vigour in response to the disruption of peace whilst the guppies continue to form beautiful greys upon the rock, unknowing the magic they are empowered within. 

leg casting

i realised i didn't take pics of my leg castings whilst i was arranging documentation processes to be printed. 

leg casting

i realised i didn't take pics of my leg castings whilst i was arranging documentation processes to be printed. 

i was on track and was able to do a bit of skipping.  in this discipline, its quite hard to stay healthy.  but healthy i must be.   whether what mum mum chops said about my lifeline is true or not, i want to continue living as long as my time on earth permits. 

froggie(yet to be named)

here are my froggie step carvings and documentation.  prints will be up later

just clocked into school.  i miss train rides to school so badly that i couldn't help but hop on the NEL to little india staion.  gonna start collating pics in jpeg format for printing so that i can do my sketchbooking then improve on some of my studies. 

school-marche-school

Just finished an otarhboard carving of Bittiey sitting at an odd angle.  Have yet to print it though, have to pack up and clear up the mess on the floor now.  

things to bring for tml : 

-thread for mushrooms

-coffee for staining

-find shreaded paper for professor bronch.

-cable for transferring pics

-chalk pastels for mushrooms

-thumbdrive for saving pics to print

-wooden board for drawing 

LivingDead

Just finished with my plaque carving.  

Cat Cat Woodblock

When i came to school i was still drowning in yesterday's misery.  I did a print of my work in progress- the three eyed kitty from Ofia- which turned out quite bad and decided that the otarhboard(dunno how to spell it) was not my thing.  i'd prefer lino and i haven't really done woodblock prints larger than 3 by 2 cm so i gave it a go with the jelutong block i got initially for last sem's pyrography of tomatoes.  

As i displayed the pictures of the cat cat i took last night before going to hell, i realised that i had a better shot of another cat i took right outside school and decided to do my first carving based on her.  I initially wanted to try to mimick the eyes of th

e owl in this pic, however and as usual, i tried to take on realism (do u call this realism?  not sure) and here's my process and finally, the print.  

inking and inked

One of the prints i liked best. 

i had it printed on a fancy kind

of tracing paper that had the 

subtle grey tones that remind 

me of streaks on a cat.

I planned to do a few more wood carvings each for one of my pets but my wood stock needed to be replenished so i headed down to Daiso.  I picked out a few variations of wood to test the carvings on and spent in total about $20 there.  Well, a bit of retail therapy sure helps improve my mood, especially if its buying the necessary items.  I got some rice paper and some other kind of paper used for presentation purposes while serving fried tempura for material tests. 

Got back to the studio and started to saw the wood into half. Please don't judge me by what i wear.  i can be tough, even though i am in a dress. ( Recently i've been wearing dresses because my pants cant fit already.  without excercise, my thigh muscles have failed to be firm and as a result, turned into fats, and thus, expanded in the process.  ) Anyway, Ernie came and asked for 10 mins of help as i was doing the sawing.  Since it was just 10 mins i agreed.  What his friend was doing for his photography project was quite cool. check this out.  

sing the whoot took longer than ten mins, i wanted to get on with work.  But people were planning to go to 8q's opening.  Since some were gonna continue working after the event, i tagged along without regrets!

8Q sam rocked!  SO MANY GOODIES AND GOOD FOOD AND MOST IMPORTANTLY GREAT WORKS EXHIBITED!!!!!!!!!!!  Donna Ong, Ahmad, KAi Syng, anjksnvaknuabg aibuuuuugi u all artists who participated had awesome works la !!! SO INSPIRING!!! and we met familiar faces!  Mr big and the circus clan were there and  i got new old news that i was actually sacked from the circus.  hehehehe which means finally zero chance of going back there.  Oh wells, i enjoyed my experience there and i learnt a great deal from there not only in skill, but about how things were run and about myself.  

gonna start on my second piece of carving now.  feeling a little restless though. 

Cat Head Eagles for Cat cats

some research.  don't wanna lose these valuable pictures again.  on wed, my blappy shut itself down and i lost my reference image for my otah board carving.  

Amie roman's wood engraving , 2006 4'x3'

Jaques Hnizdovsky
Owl
Woodcut
1974

jack hnizdovsky owl woodcut 1964

gonna start drawing for carving now.  pics in next entry.

cat cat pics

i was walking home just now and chanced upon this cat cat which i am gonna name, Bittiey. She made me cheer up a little bit. Animals never fail to cheer me up when i am down. I observed the way she posed, the way she rolled about on the ground, and thought that it was all so wonderful to have her with me. Intend to use her as my muse for a series of woodcuts, since i love cats so much.

everything that i do now, i do without meaning.

i feel so damn lost.  and useless.  i hate this feeling.......

i still had to carry on with work even though i feel like shit.  at least i have something to do.  Clea came by.  she was so sweet.  she came not only to visit, but to give me a souvenir from her hometown.  however it was the wrong timing.  i was trying to drown myself in my work so that i could try and reflect and get over my trauma.  and when she asked why i was feeling how i was feeling, i fought back the tears and just told her i don't feel like talking.  i couldn't even stand up to say thanks.  Because this was what i was doing around the people who were around doing what they were doing.

Float was also very sweet.  she came by with her little sea lion and it pecked me on my cheek.  I didn't expect that coming.  

People have been nodding in approval of what i am creating.  but what's the point of having something that looks fantastically promising, when it has nothing to back it up.  It's as if i am creating a work without meaning, which i hate so badly.  i feel so embrassed.  i am so ashamed of myself.  i need to find myself, fast.  

feeling useless

foot casting, arm casting, worm eating.

people have been quite fascinated with my wormie babies. Tonight, my master spoke of great ideas to incorporate my babies into her photography. she wanted us to eat them and told me to pose. and you know what, I'm lovin' it.

i was experimenting whilst she came by. sadly, the worms only filled 1/4 of the hand. told you guys i needed to breed more babies. It isn't enough.

i kinda got the hang of casting already. whenever i start something, i find it very hard for me to stop.

The creation of the feet was much less tedious. i decided not to create too much details for the toes if not it would take ages to wriggle my teeny toes out from the casting. lesson learnt from the hand. the glad wrap does help alot.

Did the extension of my arms to my hand too.  Looked pretty good. '