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C L A R EP-P-PEPPERONI is my art blog in which i blog about: My inspirations, art works, views on certain issues, experiences, etc. Yes, my name is Clare and no, i am no professional artist, just one who simply enjoys doing art. Without art, my life will lose its meaning and i will be square, so if you feel something sharp jab you, it probably means i haven't been doing art. Just kidding. |
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
Art Glazing Centre
12:45 AM
Over the june holidays, I went for a Glass Art workshop conducted by Tan Sock Fong
I signed up for the Textured Glass Tile class and it was truly a fun experience :)1 lesson was about $50 (i think) for materials because we had to use the kiln and 1 firing was like $400 :s so yes, e x p e n s i v e These are some of her works found in her mini gallery in the office :     And some of the end products of our 2nd class:   This one's mine:  I felt like going to the beach then so yea :') To create these textures in the glass, we used fibre paper because it was our first time working with glass. It was really easy and all you had to do was cut the paper into your desired shape, lay it in your desired composition and lay the glass tile over to melt and pick up the form of your paper. Fibre paper is really expensive because it can withstand high heat of abour 700 degrees (i think) so we had to be careful not to waste too much. The hardest part was visualising how the glass would melt and pick up the form because glass is thick and if your paper is too close to each other, the line you see in your work would not appear in the end product. It was also really hard cutting small pieces because fibre paper is very brittle and breaks apart easily.. We also learnt how to create a hard line in the glass or just a smooth curve.. this is done by the thickness of your paper and how sharp the edges are. if it is sharp, then you will get a hard line. but if you press the sides of your paper so that it is tapered down, then you will get a smoother curve and no hard lines. I also learnt the difference between different types of sand. Like how sand from the beach is coarser than sand clay and firing sand. Also, one batch of sand can only fire for abour 3-4 times then it has to be replaced. For the 3rd and 4th lesson, we worked with sand in the kiln and for once i was terrified that if the lever slipped off, the kiln cover would squash the 5 of us inside and we will die :( Anyways, sand was much harder to work with than i thought. Even though i grew up building sandcastles in the playground and on the beach, but this time i was not creating from buckets, infact we were discouraged from using moulding tools to help us as there is a high chance of trapping an air bubble inside and your glass would explode in the kiln, literally. To work with sand, you have to carefully pack the sand so that when you lay your glass tile over it, it does not crumble. I made a sheep (I dont have any pictures sorry) and to get my bumps in was a terrible process.. I had to pack the sand in little ant hills and at the same time, be careful not to knock the adjacent ones to the one im building. it was tough.. but i still liked my sheep, it is a little bit abstract because i made half of it pop out, and half sink in.. Exploring with positive and negative space. hahaha but only Auntie Sock Fong could tell it was a sheep, my parents insisted it was abstract art using circles. i guess you need an artistic side to tell! :P I would take a picture, but i'm too lazy too.. As my dad and Auntie Sock Fong's husband are best friends, we would hang around in her office and help to pack up at the end of the day. She also does sand art and i was trying to make a picture of a surfer dude but failed miserably :( I spent like 30 minutes of trial and error and in the end i had sand scattered everywhere and bleagh. She showed me tips and tricks of how you pour a circle, and just use your pinky finger to sweep the sand away by twisting your wrists.. It kinda reminded me of Affandi. HAHAHA. So I tried again but i still didn't get it right, but there was improvement!! :) you could tell they were waves at least... -epic fail- I guess it's fated that i shouldnt do sand art. She also gave me a chance to play with glass bead making and it is beyond fun. hahaha At first it was really scary melting the glass and sitting infront of a blow torch with special goggles on, but after awhile it got really exciting. You simply turn the glass rod in your hand and let it heat up uniformly until it melts, then you let it melt over a graphite rod and keep turning it until it becomes round. You can even press it against the table when the bead is still half molten to make it square, mix colours in, Add dots, lines, etc.. My bead failed in my one attempt though :( Because i didnt heat it up uniformly and when it cooled, it started to crack. So if i removed it from the glass rod, it would break into pieces.. Hence i left it there so that Auntie Sock Fong could "use it as a demo to show other students what happen if they dont get it right also can what." :B Auntie Sock Fong truly is an amazing person and I realised that she t o t a l l y thinks different from others. She spurred me on to do well in art this year and i could tell she was disheartened when i said i was not 100% confirm taking aep in jc but still reassured me that even if i dont take formal art, i could always drop by to help her or just play around the studio. So i guess that really made my day to know that i'll always have an art teacher, even when im not in school. :) If you're interested in signing up for any other courses, her studio is at Emily Hill which is in Rochor. http://www.artglasscentre.com Course prices vary on class size, the more people, the cheaper! |
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