Day 1 - ATPP camp

I fought very hard for this and it took me 2 years to finally be able to go for this program... =D... 

it was held at STAR (Singapore Teachers' Academy for the aRts)

had fun knowing my course mates in the friendship carousel ice-breaking game.... michelle and i acting as if we just knew each other.... wahahaha

looking for materials that could be used as drawing tools.... i found some leaves, part of a husk, a broken tile etc

playing the game - if i'm a seed
most of us were wind dispersed seeds floating in the wind....heee

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then we had a drawing activity

we drew a tree to represent ourselves with the items picked up previously

this is me in tree form.... used the husk which i picked up to create the 'soil' with watercolour paint.... leaves were created with fingerprints ....tore up the leaves i picked and pasted the bits and pieces super randomly to create duo layers and just used coloured pencils to draw the trunk and pasted strands of husk over it.... pasted a tiny pod seed at the extreme right to symbolise me yearning for freedom and the need for space

i wish to be the seed though....forever alone.... oopx.... 

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my course mates....all looking good and artistic.... =) 

jaw dropped right???

isnt this course for ppl who din do O-level art??? then i got it.... din do O-level art dosen mean they dun like art....neither does it mean that they cant do art.... in fact, all of them love art and can do art, it's just that they did not have any formal training in art.... 

i thought this was rather stressful liao but no.... the rest of the day was worse.... 

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can you see the 'fish' in the picture below??? trainer asked us to create a picture with the 'fish' within 2 minutes ... i just drew that curly line and called it art...=P 

and another one within the next 5 minutes

followed by a quick group sharing on both our drawings before doing a 3rd one in the next 5 minutes

was rather upset with myself.... i am super rigid....a 'fish' is always a fish.... my coursemates turned their 'fish' into an eye mask for Donatello (ninja turtle), into flowers, into birds and butterfly etc etc.... 

was still thinking about it when i went to bed that night but absolutely no idea at all.... =S 

then this idea just popped into my head the next morning when i woke up....though not very fanciful but i'm happy....cos my 'fish' is finally part of something bigger ... =) 

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our trainer then played some music and asked us to draw or make some markings on the huge piece of paper with our eyes closed.... so i listened and i drew this with a marker 

and my course mates did these 

trainer was very impressed with their work due to the different strokes used and also how they used their material in a variety of ways.... 

i was like.... was that what we were supposed to do???? aren't we supposed to just doodle and enjoy the music????  wahahahaha.... totally catch no ball.... 

it was after watching this video below that i sort of got it (a little)

so i tried to do another one with this song (Piss and Vinegar) and tatatatata....

got improvement....who say one???....i say one!!!!! heeeee.... i can really FEEL this music..... wahahahaha.... bet i could do a even better one when i m drunk.... 

that's like the only time i m not so conscious about everything around me.... 

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another drawing time - with charcoal....my first time.... draw what??? no no no...i was not drawing michelle's prada bag that was placed in front of me.... 

i was drawing the floor... 

i thought it was quite good.... abit small la... all my course mates managed to draw their 'floor' onto the whole piece of paper la....  were we told to fill up the whole paper???? wahahahaha....i'm a super low ability pupil in this art course...somehow i kept missing out on all the instructions.... =S....either that or they knew what the trainer wanted 

 i was so tensed during the whole 30 minutes of drawing the floor that i developed a headache ... =S

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then we played the game - complete the doodle

where we were told to just draw anything on a big piece of paper and then when the trainer said "change", we had to move to the next seat and continue drawing on the next piece of paper....so after making 21 changes..... these were what we got....... each piece of 'drawing' were done by all 22 of us.... =D

my favourite.... =D....everyone of us added things to make her more beautiful.... heee.... i added the 须须 of her earrings... 

i started on this piece with just a few pathetic lines right at the bottom....some of the lines are so faint that it cant be seen in this photo lo

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second charcoal drawing..... i used a just do it attitude this time....but is the anyhow do it kind (i'm sorry)....cos my headache was really bad.... i just wanted to get it over and done with ... my focus was so off that i din notice the word (ITALY) 'printed' on the tile until i saw the photo that night... =S 

my favourite...

 

very powderful right???? so how not to stress??? especially when i have to put up an exhibition with 4 pieces of drawing and 2 three-D work next jan/feb + go for an interview to qualify for the advance diploma + complete the advance diploma before i can be qualified to teach more classes of art.... is really 先 super 苦 then 后甜 lo..... 

and if i cant qualify for the course, how am i suppose to 对 lina and P and everyone in the art department 交待 leh??? and if i cant qualify, i wun be able to teach art from 2015 onwards then the last 4 years of effort which will be 7 years of effort by 2015 will just be gone with the wind la.... 

wonder if holistic department wants me..... i think i can plan P1 english and math rather well too.....wahahahha.... just kidding.... must persevere!!!! kambate!!!