I've been rather busy being lazy this holiday, not just with my other homework but with Art! so finally today i settled to do some minor (really minor) sketching and measuring and at least taking my lantern out for a breather. Like psychologically prepping myself for actually working on it, I guess, which I will try to do tomorrow since I have more time.
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| coloured tissue paper on transparency sheet (the kind you use for projectors) |
This is what I did when I went to school during the first week of the holidays for Art. It took me nearly 4 hours of on-off (mostly 'on') work to finish this, and I discovered that glue and handicrafts aren't for people with fat fingers... That's one pro for a large lantern, I guess!
I measured the lantern by placing it on my bed and blowing the fan right in the middle of it so it would poof up as totally as you can get. (I wonder how I'm going to prevent it from crumpling in on display... and should I hang it upside down from the wires or the proper side up as originally planned? Practical aspects, but important nonetheless.) -- my father just suggested using chopsticks or rattan sticks to stiffen the insides of the lanterns so that they won't implode. Brilliant!
(can you believe how wide the lantern is? that's how tall I was in primary school, I think. around p3-4. Oh my!)
so I made a proportionate sketch measuring 28 x 14 cm, exactly five times smaller than the actual lantern so it's easier for me to mark out where everything goes. Even art has scientific aspects...
measuring the little bits and sticking on colourful post-its.
this is the gradation/toning of colours using tissue paper on the work I previously posted.
I used watercolour paint on white tissue paper as the background, blending dark blue, light blue and white to (hopefully) create an ombre effect. I liked the streakiness of it and thought it would make a brilliant dress, but as a sky, it turned out to be too dark...
the paper kind of lost its translucency,
and some of the castle parts got lost in the vibrancy of the background. Although this kind of reminded me of
the little mermaid.
it's not so transparent even when you hold it up to the light, as compared to
the transparency sheet alone, sans background.
the inside of my lantern... it has a circular wooden hoop and thin wires for putting fuel, and a kind of squarish end. it's
hellish to fold!
roughly blown up, this's how it looks.
here's to more days of slugging ahead!
you know, I actually like the one where you put your castle against the transparency. It gives the feeling of a fantasy amongst reality feel. Which is very cool^^
ReplyDeleteit's actually pasted onto the transparency! (: but i like how with that you can place the transparency against any kind of scenery and like you said, get a fantasy vs reality feel. it's so surreal.
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