sphere – azxzah

September 30, 2017September 30, 2017

Gaia’s Ikebana + Halloween

So I had a branch, which I picked up somewhere when I was on the way home. When I try putting the branch into my models, I feel like it does not fit into my models. Hence I decided to make another model.

So for Model 3, I decided to make a vase(cylinder) for the branch to sit in. The cylinder is the dominant, the cone is sub-dominant and the sphere is sub-ordinate.

When I was doing the Model 3, I also thought of representational object for the cylinder, cone and sphere. So the cylinder will be a transparent vase where there will be candies in it. Cone with be the witch hat and sphere will be a small pumpkin.

In my previous post, I mention I wanted to add light to my final model. TA-DAAA! So here it is! I like how the yellow light shows the spookiness of the branches.

Refection

Overall I was not satisfied with my work as I feel that I could do better;

pay more attention to the compositions of curvilinear volumes – to create interesting composition with the theory that I learnt
decorate a bit more for my model such as hanging the cones on the branches
research more on Ikebana – so that I would understand and know where & how to put my branches
workmanship – in my previous assignment, I mention that I would want to improve on my workmanship. However, I don’t think I have achieve that.

However, my classmate works inspired me the most! They came up with interesting composition, concept and ideation. My personal favourite will be Xuan Wei’s work (winter season), where she uses Randolph as her concept and the choice of material that she use makes me feel cool (not sure what is the material, but its like a cloth). And also the composition that she did and the use of void *thumbs up*. Another favourite of mine would be Qistina’s spring ikebana.

September 30, 2017September 30, 2017

Autumnnnnn

My chosen season is Autumn.

Actually I was hoping for Spring as I like when the flowers are blooming and the colour pink too.

So I start by researching about Autumn (mostly in Japan, because of Ikebana). There are a few things that interest me:

When the leaves are falling – it gives a slow and graceful movement to it
Halloween – something that I always wanted to try it (although I am scary cat)
Scattering of autumn leaves – like the use of colours.

At first I wanted to do on the movement of falling leaves, but I could not visualise how it will look with ikebana. Hence I decided to move on with Halloween.

So for my Halloween concept, I wanted it to be targeted to children! So it will be something like ‘trick and treat’ where the vase will be filled with candies. I also intended to use lighting to show the spookiness of Halloween. There will be no leaves on the branches, and I might want to make the branch black.

My next post will be on the development of Halloween and Ikebana together.

September 29, 2017September 29, 2017

Cone, Sphere, Cylinder

So on the first lesson of curvilinear volumes, I experimented and explored cones, spheres and cylinders using foams, papers, plasticine and more. With that I created 2 models of curvilinear volumes.

I like this model because there is a distinguish size between the cone and cylinder. However the cylinder and sphere has similar volume when it is look at the bottom view.

Model 2 – bottom view, front view, back view

As compared to Model 1, I prefer this a bit more because of cone and flat cylinder where I pierce it together. However, similarly to the Model 1, Model 2 has cluster of similar volume. And in Model 2, I did not put in much thoughts about the things I had learnt for the previous mistakes.

Overall, as a start, it was quite challenging. Firstly, cutting the cone was one of a challenge, hence I decided to use paper for it. But I manage to cut cylinder and sphere. (I dont have the documentation of this)

Secondly, this assignment is quite challenging as compared to the previous assignment. In this assignment, it requires the curvilinear volumes to be at different angles. Hence I had to keep thinking and trying which object should be the base to support everything. I tried to avoid the tip of the cone to touch the base or any other object, as the tip is an interesting feature in the cone.