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Continue reading →: A Dive into Paper ClaySo once again, I gave my students a little challenge – learn to sculpt using paper clay. The aim of this exercise was firstly to practice patience as one of the main issues we encounter everyday is the endurance of maintaining our patience with the people around us. Sculpting clay…
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Continue reading →: Hello Owell!Recently, I have been experimenting on several types of clay – air-dry clay types and oven-bake types. Truthfully, it has been not only fun but exhilarating as the processes are really different and the outcomes as well. For the earlier part of my experimentations, I decided to try out cold…
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Continue reading →: Stamp it here!Printmaking Patterns (Part 2) So here we go from drawing to printing… but WAIT! You need to carve out your stamp. Traditionally, you can trace your designs onto the linoleum but what I had done was transfer digital/printed image with a little concoction packaged by Lola Lusa. Her Printing Soda…
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Continue reading →: Pin it, Sketch it!Printmaking Patterns (Part 1) On of the most important things that a design should always do is learn to research for a particular design. It should be an innate habit to create your own personal mood-board for whatever design project that you decide to embark on. This time the adventure…
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Continue reading →: Expressing EmotionsGetting art students to break out of the box has always been a challenge. Hence, the task was to “not think and describe a line with emotions”. So how does one describe a line without drawing a line? (Below) You start of by designing your own tools in replacement of…
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Continue reading →: A Visit to the Royal DelftIn my last travels in August ’17, I was lucky to have joined into one of the local tours to the Royal Delft factory in Delft, Netherlands. Its truly amazing to see how something very Asian has become an icon in Europe. The tour itself covered several places of the…
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Continue reading →: A new beginningI have never been one to do a blogging site and share on the experimentation or explorations done in the fields of art. However in the light of the new year, it has been a resolution to change that and share something old and something new. To start off, I…
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