Batik

The origins of batik is not exactly known, however, it can be traced back to Asia, India and Africa. It is an art that has been passed on for centuries. In the past, batik was most common on the island of Java, Indonesia. During that time, batik was used to make clothes that were only worn by royalty and aristocrats. Creating batik was also a common activity among the royal women to pass time. The designs and motifs of the batik also represented family, social status or geographical location on the island through the designs and motifs of the batik. The art also spread widely in the Middle East, Africa, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Thailand, the Philippines, India and more. Now, not only is batik used as a material to clothe the human body, it is also used in furnishing fabrics, heavy canvas wall hangings, tablecloths and household accessories.

Four designers in training came together to produce a final product based on the batik artworks that they’ve created. Each of the artworks were then analyzed. The artworks were analyzed based on their composition, colors, design, inspirations, the personality of the creator or background of the artwork that affected its design, and any other factors that influenced their design. After analyzing each of the artwork, a final product is produced. The final product is inspired by or has incorporated the elements, style, design and colors of the four different artworks.

The pieces of artworks created are batiks. Batik uses wax to create patterns and designs on fabric and color is applied to the fabric using a dyeing method. The wax controls the spreading of colors from a specific area when the dye is painted to create motifs. There are three types of methods of creating batik. One way is using blocks dipped into wax to print the motives and the second method is drawing the designs onto the fabric by hand. A less common method is designing without using wax, which is the tie dye method. This works by twisting the fabric and dyeing it in dye to create circular or twisted patterns. The materials used to make batik are wax, dyes and single spout Tjanting. The process starts by filling the Tjanting with a mixture of wax and resin. The Tjanting is used to draw the patterns on the fabric, which could be either cotton or silk. The fabric is then painted using dyes and left to dry. After that, the wax is removed by soaking the fabric in boiling water mixed with soda for a few minutes. After a last round of drying, the batik artwork is then completed.

“Roses by Sunrise”

The composition of visual elements in the batik is arranged at the four sides of the batik. The main visual element in this batik design is the pink rose at the right side. The reason why the

pink rose is the main element is due to its larger size. This difference in size creates an emphasis on the rose. Green, purple, yellow, orange, red and pink are the main colors in the batik. The colors orange, red and yellow are to make this batik look more cheerful and happy. Purple color is to make the whole batik look more elegant. The middle part of the batik was painted yellow to represent sunlight. All of us cannot live without sunlight, same goes to plants. The yellow painted in the middle of the batik is to emphasize how important sunlight is to life. The traditional batiks in Malaysia are mostly larger floral motifs, light and vibrant in coloring.

Malaysian batik often displays floral to avoid the interpretation of human and animal images as idolatry, in accordance with local Islamic doctrine. Malaysian batik is also famous for its geometrical designs, such as spirals. I chose floral as my theme to stick with the traditional batiks. I combined a few types of floral motifs in my batik to make it more interesting.

The inspiration for this batik design came from the creator’s first visit to Central Market. There, she saw many different types of batik designs and motifs. Among all out them, she liked floral batik designs the most. The simple design with floral prints brings out simple sophistication. The influence of the color choice is the season of summer. Summer brings happiness and joys, the creator wants people who see this batik to feel warm and grateful because summer is the new start of another year and to appreciate what had passed and accept what is coming up next.

Silhouette

Silhouette

A silhouette is the image of a person, an object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is basically featureless, and the whole is typically presented on a light background, usually white, or none at all. The silhouette differs from an outline which depicts the edge of an object in a linear form, while a silhouette appears as a solid shape. Silhouette images may be created in any visual artistic media.

Cutting portraits, generally in profile, from black card became popular in the mid-18th century, though the term “silhouette” was seldom used until the early decades of the 19th century, and the tradition has continued under this name into the 21st century. From its original graphic meaning, the term "silhouette" has been extended to describe the sight or representation of a person, object or scene that is backlit, and appears dark against a lighter background. Anything that appears this way, for example, a figure standing backlit in a doorway, may be described as "in silhouette". Because a silhouette emphasises the outline, the word has also been used in the fields of fashion and fitness to describe the shape of a person's body or the shape created by wearing clothing of a particular style or period.

here are some fun silhouette's video (:

and also some silhouette drawing art, 

and so, here's my silhouette drawing art, based on the movie, TED 

I did my silhouette drawing based on the movie - Ted. I love this movie so much, not only the main character - Ted is very cute, the story itself is very interesting also. We girls love teddy bear, not only us, little kids love teddy bear too! This movie brings back so many childhood memories, so touching. My version is about a little girl got a Ted on Christmas, as a christmas present from her parent. She loves this present a lot, because she loves to go travel, and always wanted to try travelling alone, but she don't dare and Ted can accompany her to do everything, shopping, watch movie, study and she can shares everything to Ted, she can talks to Ted when she is sad/happy. Finally she got someone to accompany her to go travel. She then finally fulfill her wish - travel around the world. They went to Paris, Japan, India, London, and also all the theme park around the world. Then they went to Korea for ski, but accident happened, Ted accidentally fall off from the mountain. Ted broken his head, even the girl's mom helped her to sew back Ted's head it still can't save Ted. Ted then turn to a normal teddy bear..

Tessellation

GODDD, this is the hardest ):

Tessellation is the process of creating a two-dimensional plane using the repetition of a geometric shape with no overlaps and no gaps. Generalizations to higher dimensions are also possible. Tessellations frequently appeared in the art of M. C. Escher, who was inspired by studying theMoorish use of symmetry in the Alhambra tiles during a visit in 1922. Tessellations are seen throughout art history, from ancient architecture to modern art.

In Latin, tessella is a small cubical piece of clay, stone or glass used to make mosaics. The word "tessella" means "small square". It corresponds with the everyday term tiling which refers to applications of tessellations, often made of glazed clay.

Examples of tessellations in the real world include honeycombs and pavement tilings.

Ceramic Tiles in Marrakech, forming edge-to-edge, regular and other tessellations.

A regular tessellation is a highly symmetric pattern made up of congruent regular polygons. There are only three regular tessellations: those made up of equilateral triangles, squares, or hexagons.

A semi-regular tessellation uses a variety of regular polygons, of which there are eight. The arrangement of polygons at every vertex point is identical. An edge-to-edge tessellation is even less regular: the only requirement is that adjacent tiles only share full sides, i.e., no tile shares a partial side with any other tile. Other types of tessellations exist, depending on types of figures and types of pattern. There are regular versus irregular, periodic versus nonperiodic, symmetric versus asymmetric, and fractal tessellations, as well as other classifications.

The first comes in my mind when I heard TESSELLATION was - batik . :O HAHAHHA yes, it looks like batik. 

Here my version of tessellation :D

 - CONTINUITY - ELEVATOR -

- CLOSURE - FRUITS - APPLE

  - FIGURE GROUND - BODY -

 - ALIGNMENT - BUFFALOS-

  - SIMILARITY - TASTY -

WATERMELON

2D design basics, paper cutting

Paper cutting assignment :D YAY one of my favourite! 
We are asked to use all 2D design principle in each and everyone of our paper cutting project.

 movement 

- a tendency or style in art followed by a group of artists, a moving object in one art. 

I used water droplets the make the movement and the water droplets with different kind of designs to make it looks more interesting :) 

 scale

-difference in size between the objects.

From left to right, it's getting bigger and bigger .. 

 Balance

- Did two balance paper cut out, I guess this is the most fun among all of them. All you need to do is just fold the paper it into half, & just cut whatever design you like. 

 dominance

-the main object in one art. 

All of them are square, and in the middle of it there is one circle there as the main object of this art. 

Asymmetrical balance

- Asymmetrical produces an informal balance that is attention attracting and dynamic.

I used different kind of elements to show the asymmetrical balance in this art work. 

STEAM-PUNK

Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction that typically features steam-powered machinery, especially in a setting inspired by industrialized Western civilization during the 19th century. Therefore, steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the 19th century's British Victorian era or American "Wild West", in a post-apocalyptic future during which steam power has regained mainstream use, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power. Steampunk perhaps most recognizably features anachronistic technologies or retro-futuristic inventions as people in the 19th century might have envisioned them, and is likewise rooted in the era's perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art. Such technology may include fictional machines like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or the modern authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld, and China Mieville. Other examples of steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of such technology as lighter-than-air airships, analog computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace'sAnalytical Engine.

Steampunk may also, though not necessarily, incorporate additional elements from the genres of fantasy, horror, historical fiction, alternate history, or other branches of speculative fiction, making it often a hybrid genre. The term steampunk's first known appearance was in 1987, though it now retroactively refers to many works of fiction created even as far back as the 1950's or 1960's.

Steampunk also refers to any of the artistic styles, clothing fashions, or subcultures, that have developed from the aesthetics of steampunk fiction, Victorian-era fiction, and films from the mid-20th century. Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by individual artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical "steampunk" style, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steampunk.

“It’s sort of Victorian-industrial, but with more whimsy and fewer orphans.”

- Caitlin Kittredge

“Steampunk is what happens when goths discover brown.”

 – Jess Nevins

Some examples of steampunk:

 "Maison tournante aérienne" (aerial rotating house) by Albert Robida for his book Le Vingtième Siècle, a 19th-century conception of life in the 20th century

 Author G. D. Falksen, wearing a steampunk-styled arm prosthesis (created by Thomas Willeford), exemplifying one take on steampunk fashion.

"Wave Gotik Treffen" Leipzig/Germany Alexander schlesier.

M A S K

MASK, is an object normally worn on the face, typically for protection, disguise, performance or entertainment. Masks have been used since antiquity for both ceremonial and practical purposes. They are usually worn on the face, although they may also be positioned for effect elsewhere on the wearer's body, so in parts of Australia giant totem masks cover the body, whilst Inuit women use finger masks during storytelling and dancing.

There are so many different kind of mask around the world, and the Venice Masks are my favourite. 
The Carnival of Venice is an annual festival, held in Venice, Italy. The Carnival ends with Lent, forty days before Easter on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. 

The Venetian carnival tradition is most famous for its distinctive masks.

Venice Masks are the most beautiful mask ever, deeply in love with the design. I love the amazing design & also they are all so colorful. Those interesting design, make you can't get your eyes off it. 

The story behind Venice mask:

There is very little evidence explaining the motive for the earliest mask wearing in Venice. One scholar argues that covering the face in public was a uniquely Venetian response to one of the most rigid class hierarchies in European history.

The first documented sources mentioning the use of masks in Venice can be found as far back as the 13th century. The Great Council made it a crime to throw scented eggs. The document decrees that masked persons were forbidden to gamble.

Another law in 1339 forbade Venetians from wearing vulgar disguises and visiting nun's convents while masked. The law also prohibits painting one's face, or wearing false beards or wigs.

Near the end of the Republic, the wearing of masks in daily life was severely restricted. By the 18th century, it was limited only to about three months from December 26. The masks were traditionally worn with decorative beads matching in color.

Everyone of us wearing a mask everyday, a mask to protect our identity from the rest of the world. A projection of who we want others to believe we are, other reasons are, protection of self, and even hiding from self. I'm those kind of person who like to hide everything from the rest of the world, I feel unnecessary telling others my feelings.. I wear a mask to myself from getting hurts and also to hiding myself from others. 

" Listen to your heart,

Why do you hide, feelings of your heart,

Listen to your heart, so that we can make a start."

Comedyy

Comedy, in the contemporary meaning of the term, is any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or to amuse by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film and stand-up comedy. This sense of the term must be carefully distinguished from its academic one, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in Ancient Greece.

For me, Mr Bean's comedy is the best. I madly in love with Mr Bean's comedy, I can just sit there whole day  watching Mr Bean's comedy :D It's really funny, and no matter how many times you watch it, you will still laugh.

To me comedy means anything that makes me laugh, and I never success to tell a joke. I always end up laughing at my own jokes ): I laugh easily, like seriously .____. HAHHAHAHAH