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Light By Yiyuan

Medium: Tablet, Paint Tool SAI, Photoshop

This work is a picture of the silhouette of a ballerina dancing on top of water under falling, softly lighted feathers. This of course, is unrealistic as well. The ballerina signifies the beauty of light, and the fact that the ballerina can float on water is another meaning of the word light. The white water ripples in the middle of the black also makes the painting look quiet and calm. Water is also something that can reflect light very well. The feathers floating downwards are symbols of being light as well, and they are also, at the same time, giving off soft light. Just like the feathers floating down, the ballerina has the same pink light as them, as if she is a feather herself, or that she is as light as a feather.

The composition of this work is balanced, as the water ripples and the ballerina are both right in the middle of the painting, and the feathers are spread equally over the canvas space.

The brushstrokes are well blended, and carefully modeled so that non of them are visible.

There are no outlines to contour the subjects in the painting at all.

The colours chosen are black, pink and white. The black and white is to show high contrast, and to emphasize on the light. While the pink is a warm colour, and pinkish light also gives off a soft impression.

This work is an attempt to fuse two different meanings of the word ‘light’ together, and showing the beauty of both at the same time. This also is what helps to make the painting more interesting.

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posted at 12:01 PM, 20100711

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Objects Under Sunlight By Yiyuan

Medium: set of H and B pencils, drawing block, art fixative

This is a simple sketch of two still objects, a cup and a bottle, with strong contrast to emphasize on, again, light. After all it is out theme. The slanted rays of light, shown by the slanted strokes of shadows, are as if the objects are by a window to the right and are being shone on by the sun, even though in the painting there is no visible window, however most of the time, light will only shine on objects like these when they are by a window of a dark room, and the smooth surface that the objects are resting on(as seen from the shadow) is commonly the table. Again the composition is distorted and the whole work is unrealistic as the shadows are being exaggerated, thus having the effect of emphasizing the light too. Both items are also not very straight and geometrical like real ones and are also slightly slanted too to further emphasize on the light. It is also unrealistic as we barely see these kind of bottles and cups nowadays, especially when the rim of the bottle shows that it probably does not have a cap.

The composition of this artwork is not balanced and definitely asymmetrical as the bottle is taller than the cup and I also chose to write my name to the right empty space. Another thing is that both the bottle and the cup are also slightly slanted to the right, to show the obvious slanted rays.

A linear perspective is used in the painting as well. This work, like my others, is 3-dimentional too.

For the texture of this sketch, the strokes of pencils are very obvious, especially for the shadow.

The outlines to contour the shape of the objects are obvious, even at the parts with lots of light shined on it, where there is still a thin outline.

The colour is black and white, of course, or a range of grey, as I only used pencils though they are ranged from 4H to 8B. I used high contrast to emphasize on the light. There is a rather warm feeling to it even though there are no colours used as the slanted rays resemble warm sunlight.

This work is trying to show that light can have a lot of warmness in it and even though it is shone on such plain items. The rays and shadows are supposed to remind viewers of sunlight shining through a window into a dark room, and sunlight are, as people know, warm. I am also trying to portray sunlight without using colours at all (like yellow highlights) and that light can be beautiful even though it is shone on such plain items.

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posted at 11:44 AM,

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Light Sea by Yiyuan

Medium: watercolour, drawing block

This is painting of unreal and unnatural lighting and fire. The lighting is too short and too thick to be real and the fire almost seems like waves. And most people have the impression that a sea is endless, just like the end of the fire cannot be seen in the painting at all. This time the unnaturalness is meant to give off a sense of uneasiness, and the light that is emphasizes it more glaring and sharp than well blended and with soft edges.

The composition of this work is balanced as the lightning is spread over the background of the painting while the fire is spread over the foreground of the painting.

A linear perspective is used in the painting. The work is 3-dimentional as well.

The brushstrokes are visible, though not very obvious, thought the layers of different shadings are obvious and rather distinct. Strokes of line of the shadings of the lightning are also jagged and not smooth at all to create a sense of sharp colours.

There are no outlines at all for this painting.

The colours used for this painting are both warm and cool. Warm colours are the orange, red and yellow for the fire, while the cool colours are the different shades of blue for the lightning. This time, neither the warm nor the cool colours are welcoming, and the jagged edges and obvious layers of different colour are not very pleasant looking as well.

This painting is trying to show that not all light are beautiful, not just that sometimes it can be glaring, light can be emitting out of dangerous things like lightning and fire. And a lot of light can be emitted from them too. This time, light probably just serve as a warning as we make use of our sense of sight to detect it.

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posted at 11:32 AM,

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Candle Fire By Yiyuan

Medium: colour pencils, black construction paper, pastel dust, art fixtative

This is another piece of work that gives off a calm feeling, despite being based on the theme light, this work is rather dull as it has not much strong contrast, but still the only thing that stood out was light, as the flame of the candle is the most obvious from the painting while the rest of it fades away into the black background. The words light are written with faint and barely noticeable different colours so as not to attract too much attention to it. Sprinkles of white are used again, but this time in a circle, to emphasize on the light again. The bottom of the candle is barely visible, fading into the darkness, to show that the light is not very strong, only lighting up the top of the candle.

The composition for this artwork is balanced as well, it is even symmetrical without the words.

The work is also idealized as in real life, there will not be a white circle of light, not to mention the sprinkles. There is also a barely visible circle created from the negative space of the cut-off words. The word ‘light’ is used to balance the composition as well.

A linear perspective is used in the painting. The work appears to be 3-dimentional.

As for the texture, this artwork has obvious strokes of colour pencil for almost the whole thing except for the light, which are slightly blended.

There is a slight white outline to contour both the candle and the word, there is even an ‘outline’ for the light, which is the circle.

The colours used are mostly cool,(black and white) except for the little bits of colour of yellow and dark orange. Even though the warm colours used are little, it helps to give the whole drawing a much warmer feeling, like a little hope in the midst of all the darkness. The white that is not applied too strongly gives off a rather smoky effect, showing that it is not very strong. Contrast is low as this sketch is rather dull, even the white is smoky and hazy-looking.

This work is trying to show that no matter how dark it can be there can be light, or hope, even if it is faint, it still exists and someday things will get better. The overall dullness is to show sadness. The chosen subject, the candle is also known to signify hope, and even light itself signifies hope.

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posted at 10:59 AM,

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AEP Exhibition Concept: Light

We chose this theme as we find light intriguing to work with; light can be expressed in many different ways, and we thought it would be interesting to experiment with how light can be portrayed.

Even though light can signify hope, it can also be used to show emotions, such as happiness, ranging to the portrayal of dangerous things such as the light emitted from a fire or an explosion. A simple Light could mean anything under the word, such as lightweight, light feelings, or literally light rays. This would give us more freedom to explore the concept, and our works would therefore have a larger sense of creativity.

We draped the board with cloth as we all decided that leaving the board black as it was would be a little plain. To suit the theme Light, we used white cloth with translucent purple so that the board would not give off a dull or heavy colour and would suit the theme better.

As we came up with works suited for the theme, we truly had to stretch our minds as to what light could mean.

In conclusion, preparing for this exhibition opened windows in our understanding of the portrayal of light.

posted at 12:01 PM, 20100705

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