Final Assignment! (Paint To Music)

Oh how time flies fast! So here's the last post for this blog...

We had to paint on 2 canvases, a 50 x 60cm and a 60 x 90cm one, to 2 types of music playlist, a classical one and contemporary one. Truth be told, I much preferred the classical music...

Here were some challenges faced:

1. contacting the supplier to get the canvases ready
2. trying to communicate with the coursemates and lecturer (a few blunders for this one, oops)
3. painting spontaneously with all sorts of mediums and techniques

Overall, however, this activity served an important lesson to me as a designer in terms of working fast, under pressure, and with a large group. It's been a rewarding learning experience, nonetheless.

My painting for the contemporary playlist on the 60 x 90cm canvas

My painting for the classical playlist on 50 x 60cm canvas, done with acrylics, spray paint, and pastels.

Annabel posing with my art because it oddly captured her essence in it! :)

Some of the tools I used!

Jean's artwork, all stencil, except with some gold accents. I love!

Fauza's painting. Almost reminiscent of a Pollock. One of my favs!

— Hidayah

Batik Trip!

Hello everyone! This will probably be one of my last posts here, aww :( We've almost concluded our foundation, oh how time flies...  anyways, here's my blog post about the batik trip!

This assignment was a group project and involved us in taking an excursion to a real batik workshop! We assigned ourselves into groups of four, and I ended up with Fauza, Farah, and Eka. Our theme was inspired by Alice in Wonderland's dresses, but with our own twists to it.

I must say, I wish I had more practise with batik, because it was really challenging to do without experience, but now I am interested to visit Jadi Batek again!

Here are the dresses that inspired us:

Now, what is batik? According to google, batik is a method (originally used in Java) of producing coloured designs on textiles by dyeing them, having first applied wax to the parts to be left undyed.

here is the hot, melted wax we used to draw our designs on the silk fabric.

Here is the 'canting' a tool which is used to distribute the wax, like a pen. We had to refill it again and again because the wax ran out and cooled off fast!

Batik paintings for sale at the workshop.

A professional at work, she also helped us with out batik-ing process! She was a lovely lady, so friendly!

Work in progress to be sold at the souvenir shop!

We left the workshop with smiles. Fauza and I!

before...

after...

Their finished works. very gorgeous!

Our batik-ing process

Exhibition day!

our works, Eka, Farah, mine and Fauza's.

— Hidayah