Wednesday, April 11, 2007

More Pictures from our runway!




OUR BIG DAY!

Today is our big day! It's finally here, our final specialization assignment. It's totally cool. All my schoolmates and classmates were gorgeous, all of them dressed up like professional models! Fantastic designs and the show was a real success, not to mention all the hard work from the arts management student..like chris, farhan, sean, pam n elle whye.. :) Below are some pictures attached from today's event..enjoy


It's done!




Our wing is finally done. here are some pictures of the wings

Process of Making Our Wings~

Done with coiling tiny wire contour around our wing structure!
This is another bone structure for the softer look wing. Me and An an are going to tie layers and layers of feathers onto the bone structure to create a flowing effect. Then cover with a transparent piece of cloth. Complete with another layer of pink feather on the outer wire and some fake flowers for decoration purposes.

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Specialization Project

Well, currently rushing through my specialization project. It's a 3D wing, 1.5m height n 1m width. Huge right. After doing some intense research, i've decided to do on surreal harajuku style wings. haha. Lots of feathers, lace, cloth, rose with a crazy touch of design.. One side is angelic and soft... the other side is hard and fierce.. Cant wait to see the outcome! Gonna post some pictures of the wings and process soon!
Stay tuned!

Mural for Fuchun Primary School





Finally, my mural in Fuchun Primary is done! So happy and satisfied!
After all the sweat, trembling legs and aching arm. haha.
One word = satisfaction

Friday, February 23, 2007

Marionette life

What am i going through now..
100% bitter, egocentric life....
i'm claustrophobia in one's heart
Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid...

I search every corner, there's no where to hide..
how i feel ignorance... Sacrifice some days.. it's harder.. Deep Within me, life's crawling and wasting my days.. Another night gone and i know there will be another way...
We r all victims of the rules we laid... No one is exactly free in a way... we r all trapped...
i hope to **** far far away.. together with all the *r**o* *i*h**... really...

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

vampire!









Mysterious and a scholar, you are a member of the Tremere clan. You are pretty loyal to your clan, well, you sort of have to...especially since you are blood-bonded to most of them. You are the intelligentsia of the Camarilla and are fascinated with the occult. Possessing the ability to use blood for magic, many clans don't like to approach you. However, that is fine with you. You tend not to trust the other clans anyway.

What Vampire Clan Do You Belong To?

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Mona Lisa - Artist Citation


My Mona Lisa finally done!!!!! Been doing this for 2 days while i'm down with food poisoning. *Puke* I'm quite satisfied with the outcome!! yeAH

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Posters


My room's poster!!!! I need more posters.. more!!!

Perfect


This is a spray job done by some year 2 or 3 students in lasalle. All i can say is "perfect".

Mona Lisa in progress


This is my mona lisa in progress. It's my assignment under artist citation. I'm suppose to imitate a famous painting and insert a pic of myself in action into the painting to make it funny. Media = Colour pencil or pastel. Great n fun experiment.

Mural for Fuchun Primary School - Continue..

Ally at work!!
SongYan aka Blangadesh wannabe
Once the design is set, we must get to work. At first, I wanted to paint the whole background white, but after a serious discussion with the remaining group member. We've decided to draw the outline first. Save the double work.

Saturday, February 3, 2007

My CV

Angela Liao Kexin

Jelapang Road
Singapore 670538
Kexin1983@gmail.com
Date of birth: 29 June 1983
Nationality: Singapore


Education:

- Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts (2006 – to present)
B.A in Arts (Major in Painting)
- To be attained in year 2010
Diploma in Arts (Major in Painting)
- To be attained in 2009

- Singapore Polytechnic (2000 – 2002)
Partial Diploma in Business Administration
(Major in Public Relation and Advertising)

- Bukit Batok Secondary School (1996-1999)
‘O’ Levels


Exhibitions:

Group Exhibition:

-Vitamin A B & C – Project space, Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts
Singapore (2006)

Awards & Grants:

Good Progress Award, Singapore, 1997
1st in Inter-house Chess, Singapore, 1997
3rd in Inter-house individual chess, Singapore, 1997
Highest in History for Secondary 3 level, Singapore, 1998
Outstanding & Long service award for Interact Club, Singapore, 1999


ECA:

Cross Country, Bukit Batok Secondary, 1996 – 1997
Chess Club, Bukit Batok Secondary, 1996 – 1997
Interact Club, Bukit Batok Secondary, 1997 – 1999

Professional Work Experience:

Administrative Clerk, D&P Florist and Hampers Pte Ltd, 1999
Data Entry Clerk, Miller Freeman Pte Ltd, 2000
Sales Personnel, Universal Consultant Pte Ltd, 2000
Retail Personnel, Global Active Pte Ltd, 2004
Events Coordinator, Jupz Production Pte Ltd, 2006

Reference:

-Abdul Rashid Bin Abdul Gapar
Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts

Artist Statement

Dororthy Parker once exclaimed ' Art is a form of cartharsis'.
It is a passionate expression within one's innermost being; often at times it may be born of great suffering as well as great joy. I always try to fulfill art's principles by being more human; truly embracing my fears, insecurities, pains, and joys, ever reaching closer to that conflict, climax, and cartharsis. I am happiest when creating art piece that really bring out my core. Works that really grasp all that I am feeling and thinking, the anger and the suffocating emotion hiding from inside of me. And it is at moments like these when I catch a glimmer of what it is like to create a perfect art piece.

Monday, January 29, 2007

Half true!


You are The Moon


Hope, expectation, Bright promises.


The Moon is a card of magic and mystery - when prominent you know that nothing is as it seems, particularly when it concerns relationships. All logic is thrown out the window.


The Moon is all about visions and illusions, madness, genius and poetry. This is a card that has to do with sleep, and so with both dreams and nightmares. It is a scary card in that it warns that there might be hidden enemies, tricks and falsehoods. But it should also be remembered that this is a card of great creativity, of powerful magic, primal feelings and intuition. You may be going through a time of emotional and mental trial; if you have any past mental problems, you must be vigilant in taking your medication but avoid drugs or alcohol, as abuse of either will cause them irreparable damage. This time however, can also result in great creativity, psychic powers, visions and insight. You can and should trust your intuition.


What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Negro Me




This is a self-portrait of me with the world’s thickest lip. To make it even funnier, I combined a super weird hairdo in replacement of my own hair. This whole drawing was done with charcoal.

Mural of Japanese Restaurant






This is my first mural painting even before the school assignment for Fuchun Primary school. My beloved lecturer - Rashid, introduced this job. It was a commissioned project requested by the boss of Hoshi Japanese restaurant. Although the pay was cut from $1500 to $1200 after me and my partner Kian an did our outline, which is pretty unfair, we both enjoy ourselves. It took us 3 full nights to complete it. Treat this as an experience and we believe there are more jobs to come.

Mural for Fuchun Primary School




The chosen theme for this mural was National Education. Core subjects such as mathematics and science have been incorporated into the design with a contemporary feel. As important as making subjects interesting and not to limit creativity, i included important value of students such as unity, discipline and care too. The style of this mural was based on reference artist - Keith Haring. His eagerness to experience with his artworks inspires me. Using combination of unconventional and abstract symbol, this mural design can have alot of different meaning intercept by different individual. Primary colours have been deliberately chosen as just like education is the core essence of a student.

Tanned Seahorse~



This is a tedious assignment similar to the sphere and the printmaking. It requires a lot of time and focus. Using different pen thickness, it can achieve many depths and volume. Sensitivity if use wisely in this assignment can create marvelous outcome

Muscularhino





Everyone claims that my rhino look muscular and fit. It was my first attempt in ceramic, definitely quite proud of myself. Making this 3D rhino needs a lot of molding, twisting and even slamming of the clay to prevent air bubbles that will lead to crack upon firing.

Tormenting Sphere




The whole process of making this 20cm sphere took me about 4 weeks to complete. The making of the 3D cubes itself already took up 80% of the time. It was a nightmare for me although I am quite satisfied with outcome of the sphere. Hollow but yet sophisticated.

The Bananarama!



This was my first group project! Wire-banana. Creating the bone structure of the banana was the first thing we did. Followed by coiling the thinner wire around the bone structure to create volume. Lastly, the skin of the banana was attached separately and the end product looks fantastic!!!! We even sold the wire banana for 50 dollars to a lecturer.

Childhood Memories



This printmaking assignment is a tough and tedious one. Not only you need to carve the right design on the right spot and ink with the right colour. The strength use to print the image on the paper must be of moderation too. This work requires to be done layer-by-layer, colour-by-colour. It was still a fun assignment even though it was a messy one.

Perspective Headache

Single- or one-point perspective is a simplest method of making objects look three-dimensional. Two-point perspective is slightly more complex, as both the front and back edges, and side edges, of an object must be diminished towards vanishing points. Three-point perspective is the one giving me the headache during the assignment, took me one whole day before i figured how to do it. It is usually used for buildings seen from above or from the bottom, which normally known as the “bird view”, and “ant view”.

Teddy Teddy and Family


Contour lines create volume and mass when applied in drawing. With all this contour lines, a simple 2D flat drawing can easily become 3 dimensional. Contour Drawing has boldness, fragility, simplicity and spirit, depending on it's purpose and outcome.

Crumpled Paper


This piece of artwork seems easy to do at the first glance, but it requires a lot of focus on the different toner value of the shading of the crumbled paper. Different shadings create different movements and depths on the drawing. It took me 2 days to complete this drawing.

Negative Space


Using negative spaces to show an object or scenery in a drawing was a new technique I learnt last year. Instead of shading the branches and leaves of this particular tree, I shaded the white spaces between them. Instantly, the shape of the tree became more prominent.

It's all about Charcoal


Charcoal makes you dirty and messy.
Charcoal can create a masterpiece too! This charcoal drawing not only require accurate proportion measurement, the blending of shading must be of proper techniques too.

A journey to remember




This is my second media project on shooting this 3 minutes video - A journey to remember. Being elected to be the director of this two short film gave me the opportunity to lead, to guide, to plan and basically to organize the whole filming process. I must say it was a tough one. First of all, due to the busy schedule and workload we have, it was not easy to find a date suitable for everybody. It was my job to think of a good script, to find the necessary props, to find the appropriate location for filming and the different role assigned to different members. I learnt a lot through this project. I learn to compromise, to be flexible and most importantly, leadership. I definitely look forward to the future media group project.

Seeing Nature in digital eyes



Photoshop is a programme whereby it needs alot of practice to familiarize it's function. This is my first project on collage using photoshop and personally i like it alot. There is alot of exploration done. In this picture, i would like to convey that nature of beauty not only lies in the appreciation of the human sight but the other four basic human senses too. The sight, sounds, taste, smell and touch your heart will feel.

Collages on interior space (Home)

Paper collage
Cloth collage
Mix media collage
Mix media collage
Mix media collage


These are some different experimental collages using different medias such as paper, plastic, cloth, texture paper and transparent materials. Some collages are done using individual media while others incorporates mix medias. For final touching up, I used acrylic paint to enhance better effects.l

Collage of self portrait




This is my first collage. After some reference from famous collage artist, i started to knock thin aluminium sheet flat, cutting them into the right shapes and combining them with other medias. I was not taught of collage in primary school nor secondary school. However, i am rather satisfied with the outcome.