A brief on last week: Our lecturer had us experiment making patterns on different types of paper using unconventional tools such as leaves and drinking straws. We used ink to make circles and lines on the papers. I learned about composition and repetition of patterns. Yeap this is starting to sound like your stereotypical assignment report.
On to this week's tutorial lessons, we were asked the week before to make lines and shapes on a piece of blank paper without using pencils, pens, markers, etc. Instead, we had to make the lines by slicing, cutting, folding or crumpling the paper. Today, all of us presented our pieces and the general feedback from our lecturer can be dubbed as "you-can-do-better-than-that".
My piece was inspired by The Great Wave of Kanagawa and I tried to make it seem like the framed painting itself. Obviously, that didn't work out. I made the squares by stacking my books ad pressing my paper against them.
Later, our lecturer told us to try again, but to focus on only one method (be it cutting shapes, folding, or whatnot). The end results were noticeably more clean and visually strong, so yays to that (and our lecturer)!
I think I'm finally starting to get the hang of this class (and its abstractness). Either way, I'll have to finish each assignment given, learn from my mistakes and move on. DEEP AF IKR
