This was our first mind map for this unit. We had to connect our "approaches to learning" skills and see the different type of skills we needed to use in our MYP subjects. Through this exercise, we learned that we use the same skills in different subjects, for example, we use research skills in almost every subject, even in contrasting subjects such as Science and Art. Another skill that we use in almost every subject is our analysing skills, which relates to our topic now. |
This photo was taken at an accidental moment. I was taking the background without the boy, using the rule of odds, and suddenly the boy came running fast. I realised that the addition of the boy was actually quite useful as he made the photo more lively, and his shirt matched well with the stripes on the stairs and the yellow rubbish bin, which sort of popped up the colours of the photo.
For this photo, I took the advantage of the shadows and the colours of the building as they were of similar gradient with the shadows. I used the rule of thirds to make the white flowers become the focus.
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I took this photo from a low angle, to make the buildings and tree seem bigger and taller than they are. I tried to put the light focus on the shadow of the tree, which made it darker, and makes the photo more 3D and realistic
When I took this photo, I used the gridlines of my camera, so that I positioned the plant in roughly one-third of my photo, so that I could create a empty space yet, one side is filled, to show the idea of how empty space could be good space.
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This was the outline or first draft for my painting. I wanted to get an overall sense of what my future painting would be like. Additionally, it was useful to do this first outline as to practice the idea of view point as I was struggling with trying to figure out the scale and how I should form my piece. Throughout the process, I used this first outline as a guide to doing my final piece |
As I was adding detail to my artwork, my art teacher suggested that I painted a base layer first as I will be doing much more detail later on, which will then be harder to paint the piece. I took in his suggestion and started to do a base layer. From the picture, it looks very rough and messy. From this, I plan on improving the artwork, and because of the base layer, it is easier to tell the elements of the artwork better, which makes the process easier. |
In the next art lesson, I decided to add an "olden" texture to the side which will be representing the conventional stages of life. To do this, I searched up pictures of wood textures to have a reference for my painting.
The reason why I did this was because I felt that the conventional life where an individual studies, graduate, goes and find a career (and sometimes for women get married as quickly as possible), retire and die without doing something out of the ordinare is quite an old practice and it's something that the older generation would ask / demand for. Also, in my opinion, the wood texture really evokes this "old" feeling, as in my country, people living in olden areas usually live in these old "kampung" houses (basically, a village) which are made by wood. So, I got reminded of that and wanted to portray that in my drawing. I used watercolour pencils instead of paint to draw these wooden textures as I have more control over the pencils than with paint, so it was easier to draw and create the texture. |
I decided to make the stores pop out ; making it more 3D. I did this by cutting out the piece of board that was the store and used card to cover the other sides. I then added a light bulb so that it will act as a light, which will then bring the attention of the store. I did this to emphasise the realistic view of the conventional side. |