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Italy Capri, the shades of blue in Capri were stunning.

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We made a presentation today. Above are some pictures of the artwork produced by the other groups,

This was a busy and tiring week for me...... but it’s all worth it after looking at these wonderful outcomes.

The end!

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Blues lights at Chok Kerong’s concert tonight! It’s blue again!

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Compiling our group journal for Friday.

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Here’s a footage of Warut throwing a clinical tongue stick on the canvas. Warut majors in art. He loves to mix the paint with his bare hands.

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We explored the theme of elasticity.

We created artwork with rubber bands dipped in blue paint.

We threw a few objects, venting our anger on the acrylic and canvas boards.

See the last picture on the right. That’s the end result.

Then we spent the rest of the day compiling our group’s “in design” leaflet for Friday’s presentation.

I imported a video of the process into pro tools music software and added jazz music to it. I will be posting the video in the next post!

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We dipped the rubber bands in paint ....stretched and released it......the paint splattered on the white acrylic board.

Elasticity of the rubber bands signifies our threshold for anger before losing it.

The paint splatters signifies “ snapping”!

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Pictures from Day 1 and 2

- process of pouring paint over the rubber bands.

- workshop table work TOP! Really cool!

- crushed aluminium

- Colton wool

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26 Feb 2019

What we did at Winstedt Campus today:

Our project ideas:

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25 Feb 2019

First day of  “Blue” seminar

Jenny started the seminar with a blue poem.

Where can we find blue? Blue is everywhere and how we take it for granted!

1- Sky: Above us.

2- Water: We came from water.

3- Rainbow: Red, yellow and blue are the main primary colors.

Here are some key highlights from Jenny:

In the past, colors came from plant pigment. There was no blue in paintings 1000 years ago. Then, blue pigments slowly crept in, but they were rare and expensive. For Eg: one of the artists Vermeer almost became bankrupt from buying and using blue paint in his works.

Impressionist period: Van Gogh and Claude Monet used lots of blue in their paintings. 

Jenny loves the combination of Indigo and gold. Gold and blue were widely used for religious scripts.

Duke Ellington and his blues music. “Blues” originated from the slaves.

Pantone book,  dyes Archives: color metric testing.

There are 100 shades of indigo.

WHY IS INDIGO SO SPECIAL?

- Indigo blue has a special pigment.

- The molecule is very beautiful, chemist loves it. It is hydrogen bonding.

Jenny continued to cover the usage of indigo in different countries and culture. 

Blue had a different meaning for everyone.

Indigo was used for Egyptian mummies.

Palestinian loved indigo

Jenny went on to talk about jeans! I love wearing jeans and I own at least 20 -30 pairs! But I have never pondered about where my jeans came from and why is it blue, and who invented jeans? So thank you Jenny!

To close this post, I would like to share who invented jeans! Here’s a the story

Jeans are pants made from denim or dungaree cloths which are both cotton cloths but denim is woven and then colored while dungaree is woven from colored yarn. “Jeans” is a short for “blue jeans” which are invented by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss in 1873. Jeans as name for trousers come from city of Genoa in Italy, a place where cotton corduroy, called either jean or jeane, was manufactured. Republic of Genoa exported the jeans throughout Europe. Weavers from the French city of Nimes tried to copy jean but could not. Fabric they ended up with became known as denim, literally "de Nimes" or “from Nimes”.

Winstedt campus:

We had to create objects with an emotion in mind.

My team had to channel “ anger” into the object.

The teacher gave us 10-20 raw materials. We had to choose 2-3 materials to work with.

We created the following objects:

- A chain of blues rubber bands: This represented slaves in captivity and they sang the “blues” to voice their pain and suffering.

- Crushed aluminium foil to represent anger

- Crushed aluminium foil with Cotton wool on the outside to represent someone who’s calm on the outside but boiling with anger inside.

- We videoed a rubber band stretching to its maximum length before snapping. This shows how we all have limitations before we losing it!