Material Modelling

The Final workshop I signed up for was Material modelling. This turned out to be the most enjoyable out of the three for me.
We started out with a box exercise which was the very first model item I had made ever ( being one of the engineers). From then on, the tasks were explained and were pretty self explanatory, compared to my other workshops. From the simple cardboard model to the final transformation one, I learnt so much about techniques and little tips for making models, though I admit I've still a long way to go.
One huge lesson I learnt from this task was where and what materials you can actually find, which will definately be useful in the future.

The cardboard design for which I based my transformation model on. It was one of those country houses with tin roofs.

In the image you can see my use of wrapping ( one of my chosen action techniques). I intended for it to look like bandages wrapping up the exterior wall, I'm not too sure how much it looks like that though. My idea was supose to look like bloody interior walls with bandages wrapping the outside. The visible red wall in the image is one of many walls that are able to move in and out of the structure. This was my second action technique, revealing or exposing. It was not as successful as I had hoped as some walls were looser than others and I didn't like this difference,and walls tended to fall inside if i pushed too much and was a bother to fish out again.

Points I must work on are mainly the neatness of my model. I tended to get glue all over and some bits of glue are visible still.

Atlas of Colour

Okay to start off Atlas of Colour sounded better than it was. Firstly though, the colour theory was quite interesting, I liked the little facts ( eg. if you stare at a coloured circle for a long time you see the CONTRASTING HUE if you look away because your eyes just do it for some strange reason). Also the watercolour tasks were pretty fun since I havn't picked up a paintbrush in years (being one of the engineers and having maths and physics as my bread and butter). BUT everything else was just frustrating for me. Some tasks took quite a while and there were so many of them. It just felt like a million little tasks in a book. Looking back on the book, the accordian fold was quite an unusual specification to ask of us and was not fun at all for me.

Going to the 49 veils to see the window was very nice. They looked quite beautiful and the colours blended nicely.

I still dont fully understand the reason for the photoshop task and the face mapping one in relation to colour though...

THINGS I LEARNT:

COLOUR TERMINOLOGY ( the proper name for a colour is a HUE, etc)

INK IS VERY TRICKY

TIPS AND TRICKS TO DO WITH WATERCOLOUR PAINTING

The Central Synagogue in Bondi presents the window art of Janet Lawrence. This particular window which I have colour mapped depicts "Love - World Of Formation" which has spiritual meaning in the Jewish religion.

Architecture in Motion

This first workshop was quite interesting. Being the first batch of students we didnt really have any direction to follow except the work of Kentridge, so it was pretty open to the imagination.

First we went about taking photos of our space and thinking of narratives to take place within it. The drawing and modelling aspects were hard to tackle but turned out to be the best part of everyones movies. Some movies stood out for me, mainly due to their awesome use of modelling, especially this one set in the bathroom where he explored the use of pipes.

Looking back on my video I can't see much relation to architecture except that it took place within it but nevertheless it was a fun assignment.

Things I learnt:

Stop motion can be very cool IF you use a tripod

it can be very illusion based

Another thing I learnt from this workshop. BRING LOTS OF WORK TO DO IN CLASS, 4 hours is very very long and alot can be done.