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Continue reading →: MUSE 2.0: An A-Muse-ing Exhibition of Art and Design during the PandemicAs the learning never stops growing, neither does the growing stop evolving. This year’s Muse Exhibition showcases an expression of their personal experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic. The art show features 28 ICAD staffs’ expression and experience that reflects on one of ICAD’s Manifestos while responding to current issues.
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Continue reading →: Living in the Age of Covid-19Come the mid of September, we were near functioning back to the classic physical classroom setting with the touch of social distancing. It felt so good to be back into the studio setting with a live audience (in this case, students). In this set below, you would see me conducting…
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Continue reading →: An Art Educator’s Journal: Flipping the Class Getty Museum StyleWhoever said you cannot teach art in the form of distance learning; really needs to cut themselves some slack and get inspired by some of the internet trending challenges. Through the last couple of working-from-home weeks, there have been a least a dozen of ideas trending on my social media…
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Continue reading →: MCO: Living Life and Working from HOMEMeet Ana Victoria Calderon, the facilitator for this course. Ana is a water-colourist from Mexico and shares her experience in this course. In brief, it is strategically broken down making it easy for the participant to digest the basic understanding before diving into the process. Yes process! A basic understanding…
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Continue reading →: Expanding some Design Fabrication
A very long time ago, a friend once inspired me to start a product store on Society6. Back then, I was not all that sure what to upload or how to expand my designs onto products using their in-build software. Let’s explore more digitized watercolour. I’ll post another blog soon!…
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Continue reading →: Playing with Coloursit has been a really long while since I penned a post here. To be honest it has been a really long year 2019. So in this post, I will share on one of the more recent experiences. First and foremost before I continue onward, I wish all my readers…
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Continue reading →: The Little OrchidThere is a saying that goes like this – “The orchid is Mother Nature’s masterpiece.” and it is that saying that makes me appreciate orchids. Using that as my subject, I made simple home setup and decided to make a square scarf. So this was a little home adventure with…
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Continue reading →: A Potter’s Diary Part 4: One Adventure CompletedIt is finally completed! But it has taken me more than a month to pen my thoughts down. Honestly, it was more of being busy in the real life with any bare time to sit down and share my experience. Nevertheless, since I am here I will also share on…
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Continue reading →: A Potter’s Diary Part 3: Patience results beautyFirst and foremost, I must admit that this art is going to me a while to conquer and master. Nevertheless, I told myself I am going to master it and I will. So moving forward, I am going to share the update on my previously completed clay works. They have…
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Continue reading →: A Potter’s Diary Part 2: Taking RisksSo moving forward from Lesson 1, I was now introduced to making my own clay glue which is called a slip. A gluey substance that allows you to glue your pieces together. In a way, it is similar to cement for clay. So another creation was made a forest themed…
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