work in progress

figurative drawing on the translucent paper based on a dream. To express the sub consciousness. to creating several triangles, drawing inside, to express being taped in a unknown space, and to develop the human darkness side which not showing in their daily life and different personalities.

Illustration

A series of water color painting using illustrative way to express friends and re arrange the advertising. to build up women's confidence, beauty, fashion and to stress out the important friendship.

split house

A drawing down with soft pastel. The idea is based on imagining a house being split and inside with lots lots satires and all these satires lead you to an unknown world.

Bloom

Double exposure flower drawing

Double Exposure Drawing

This is a drawing using double exposure method. I draw the figure on the translucent paper, and draw the figure in different posing to make it like double exposure picture, but actually they are in one paper.

Transform

This is the sculpture I did in first year. Play with the form of the material. Play with the shadow in different perspective. Combine with the traditional Chinese peony flower pattern, and rotate form to symbolize the transaction of myself in two kind of culture different.

a place I rest

This is the painting that I am using water color style but painting with acrylics. This is the experiment for the material and to apply an idea that my imagination of a peaceful nature that I would like to take a rest. the wash is creating an abstract pattern which symbolize the nature.

This is the last week for school and is the most busy week because we every course has a lot of assignments and projects. For me, I create two things on this week. One is the project for sculpture class which I think I did an impressive work because I never think I could finish it. The other one is just I doing it for fun.

First, for the sculpture assignment, we require to use metal to create something. I cut piece of sheet metal and use one kind of machine to cut off what I draw on the metal, then use sander to sand it in order to make it shimmer. I put it in the roll up machine to roll it up to give people the flawing movement. The last step I use wood to be the base and I paint the wood based on the texture the wood original have. Also the color I put on the wood can give the reflection on the metal. I really like what I do not because how good it is. That because I first time try to doing a sculpture use metal and first time touch the machine and skills I learn work with metal.

Second one is just stick all of my useless CD together to make a form. I like the color on the back of the CD. It likes rainbow, and also like colorful mirrors. Thus I put them together and It likes a big mirror. When I open the light, the color CD has can reflect on the roof, that like I can see the rainbow in my home.

FTISLAND!

I have a project need to use metal on this week. I finish the project and left some wire, then I use them make some little person in a small black box. All of these little people have different actions, and five people come up with a band. One is play guitar, one is play piano, one is play dram, one is play bass, and the person in front is a singer. I try to not cut the wire, which means I work out every person in one piece of wire. It’s really challenge because some time I will make it to a wrong ship then I will change it again and again, and also some part of the body is waste wire because I want to try one piece of it to create person.

To make this creation because recent of time I was creasy about a Korean rock band. They are all 16 to19 age teenagers. The song they create and sing in a very pure way. When you listen the song, you can get very cheerful and happy feeling. For my self, I’m very interested in music and I play piano for a few years. I had a dream to create a music band when I was in high school, but because the academic study is too busy in china, I did not get a change to fulfill my dream. This little creation makes me so happy because I can make something is about my favorite music band. People may have a lot of dreams through their different age period. However, some times they can’t full fill every dream because the conditions in their real life. For myself, I was very happy and satisfied that I can do what I want to do right now which is study art design. There are a lot of challenges during the time I study it, but challenges the most important thing in my life to make me improve.

Self Drawing

This is a drawing I create on this week. It is based on a self picture that I took. The reason to take this picture because I bought a new shirt and a cap, I want to see what is looks like if I try it on. When I saw the picture, I I want to try to draw it. I like drawing or painting people, but I never try self drawing. After I draw, I think because the technique problem, it not exactly looks like myself, but I get the feeling about the drawing which is a little lonely. I was really like guitar, and I like the life people who get a guitar singing everywhere. I think that is so cool, but actually the difficulties they went through only these people knows. People who singing every place to make money is not an easy job, they must overcome a lot of difficulties and let their dream come true. Then, I drawing a guitar on the back of this girl which means I study art in another country is also not an easy thing. I will have a lot of difficulties face in the future. Drawing this just want to cheer myself up I must try my best to overcome every difficulties let my dream come true! This makes me think about the lecture of personality and creativity. It just likes professor said growing up environment can create different personality or change one’s personality. I always remember when I first came in Canada, one of my new Chinese friends told me that from talking, things I deal with can see the personality I have and what looks like about my parents. That’s true; I have a very peaceful home. I am the only child at home. My parents try their best to protect and educated their only child. I did not met lot difficulties, so I think every mistakes or difficulties I met will become very good experience and can makes me stronger to meet bigger difficulties in the future. Just like the drawing shows I try my best to fulfill my dream right now no matter how many difficulties I met, I will let my dream come true and be successful!

This week was a busy week. I finished the reading Personality and Artistic Creativity, and I was interested about this article talks about the idea of creative process between introvert and extravert. Jung pointed out the idea that inspired creator’s process extravert lies in his having objectified his unconscious. In extraverted process the artist is aware that he is subordinate to his work or stands outside it, as through he were a second person, or through a person other than himself had fallen within the magic circle of an alien will. For introverted characters, which means getting inside their point of view, indeed, there may sometimes be a need to assume a person with the opposite attitude throughout a story or novel. Just like us talks about the idea in Dr. Madeline’s lecture, the introvert need create things alone. They like a quite environment, and use their personal experience. They like to be alone and do not need talk with people too much. For extrovert, they prefer to get energy from talk with people and to be social. They need other people, also I think they need get other people’s experience become their ideas and put in their story or creation. The creation from extrovert, they will consider whether their story can be accepted for variety of people and different ages of people.
From my perspective, I think I was an introvert creator. When I think about things I like to be alone. I like put my personal experience and interesting in my work, even do not think about whether others can be accepted. For example, every time I doing my patenting project in painting class I will repaint after class. I feel very hard to concentrate or to thinking ideas in front of a lot of people. As a result, my friends tell me do not paint in class; do not waste your painting material. I am also afraid to do group project because not only yourself in this group, you must consider other people. There is a problem I often ask myself, is there any thing wrong if I only create things or getting ideas all by myself, never consider other people’s feeling or other people like or dislike my creation. Should I change the way for my creation process? In other words, if we do not consider audiences’ felling, is this creative project will be successful? However, some times I will think creativity is the way to express your personality, to let people understand you through your creation. May be not everyone can understand you, but at least some people can or some people will related their personal experience from your creation.

I have a busy week because this project. i must say i was very excited about what i have already down. this is a body go through object. my body can go through from hole of the top box, just like i come out from these flowers. I was so happy i finished it because i never touch the machines in workshop, and this is the first time I create something use wood and i learn how to use different saws and tools to make different shapes and to combine wood together.

creatity in my dream

Last lecture is about the structure of phyche “unconscious”. The lecture talks about Fread, Adler and Jung’s idea about creativity. I was very interested the idea about create ideas in dream. I think people have dream have several reasons such as always think one thing too much, want to reach a goal but hard to come true, or have too much stress. These all the reasons I think for people to have dreams and these reasons are I always have dream.
I agree with dream can let people creative. This is the picture of my dream. One night I have a dream of the blue sky. sun flowers are open on the surface of the sky. In the dream, I saw these sun flowers on the top of the sky. I still remember the feeling when I see these sunflowers in my dreams when I weak up. It makes me very cheer up. I remember it very clearly after I woke up. I try to create a painting about it. I want to paint the sunflowers all cover the sky, but I found painting sunflower is harder than what I am thinking. Thus, I stop when I finsh the third one. I’m very interested on take picture for different kind of flower, so I found the daily picture was taken instead sunflower and choose two kinds of flower paint on the canvas.
The painting I created this time makes me believe that some famous artists may be use the same way when they create something through their dreams. They will not exactly copy what they had on their dream, but the dream will give them the ideas of what themselves unconsciousness want create.

my creation on boring week~

When I was a child, I like made clothes for dolls, even though the skill was very poor. After I growing up, I like to make hand crafts, necklace, or head accessories. I spend a lot of money to buy different kind of head accessories, and I hope someday I can, make these things to fit myself.
I don’t have too much project due this week, so I try to make some accessories I was interested in. I like butterfly and for most ship of head accessories were butterfly. I bought some riband in the craft store and all tools I want to use. I got some basic idea of how to make it from website, but I don’t want to copy the exactly form of the head accessories have today. I focus on color use and ship different. For example, the third one on the left side, I think pink color a good for younger people. Only use the pink color by itself is too bright, so I add on layer of brown riband to make it little darker. For the 5th one on the left side, I change the form of it. Make it not equal on both sides.

I think this time is pretty successful, I think creativity is all around our daily life. Such as these head accessories, they are not only use for head, but they also can be as gift decoration, or clothes decoration. These little creativities can bring benefits and fun for your life. It is essencial partialfor our lives.

artists are poor?

Topic on this week is evaluating creativity. At beginning of the lecture, Peter posted a question: why artists are poor. That question makes me think a lot. My major is Visual Art and I’m a transfer student from business. My friends who study business always ask me that why you want to study art? How can you make money to support your future life?

They have these questions because Art and Creativity is incorporeal. It is very hard for people to define or evaluate good or bad, right or wrong. For my perspective, the only evaluations people can say is like or dislike this project because everyone has different perspective to understand art.

I like drawing and painting, sometimes I also thinking what kind of job I can do or can I find a job when I graduate? Should I change a major can give me a stable life? However, later on there is only one thing I want to do is I want study art no matter if the job can make enough money. People cannot live without art. Artists are poor is because people think it is very normal art surround us. Creator and artists bring a lot of fun and benefit to people's life. Music, novels, book, paintings, even the chair people sit, clothes people wear, and the pen people use is came from creator and come from designers. People seems never think about cannot live without invention because these little creation, the influential artists and creator come out. Therefore, for my point, I will support art and also this is the reason why I like study something about art.

For the Class Creative Being