sorry for not blogging.. too caught up with work.. this whole week is presentations.. next week e-learning, SLIGHTLY more relax, den following week all assignments are due.. so xiong.. -.-zzz people still say NIE v relac.. no wonder last time the macpherson staff told me they hated NIE.. argh..
wonder when is my votinh gg to take place.. supposed to be today.. but shere din get back to me leh.. haiz..
went home get some tkd stuff den went to meet scarlett.. the hp that she wanted turns out to be $198 cos im not signing a new line.. just a plan conversion.. only upon new line, then got $60 discount.. poor thing.. she so sad.. had to call her mummy to ask again if should buy..
look at her in distress..anw, she got the hp in the end.. keep buggin me to sign new line.. argh.. anw, glad that i helped her got something she wanted.. or.. not so wanted.. ya.. nvm..
went for dinner with her.. the laksa i ate is not bad.. her char kway teow looks good too.. but too full to help her finish.. the veggies are nice though.. that i ate.. haha..
was quite tired.. waited for bus with her and cabbed back to ntu.. the stupid driver act blur when he went in my jalan bahar entrance, specifically told him pioneer entrance.. wan to eat my dollar.. fcuk.. ccb..
and here i am just almost completing another essay.. on my my buddy's mask.. show ual..
The candidate Shiva is one with several facial expressions. Although the joyous grins are often salient on his face, there are also times whereby the lesser evil gets the top of it. In times of cynicism, his grins fade away and a much more serious air can be spotted. It is common to see him puckering his lips in the midst of a discussion when views expressed do not draw parallelism to his own. In doing so, he settles into a serious tone and sets his mind thinking, processing the essential information to either accept or rebut.
Shiva is an Indian with sharp facial features. His cheekbones are very much protruding and the cheeks are rather lacking in mass. The choice of using the expression for the mask becomes the preeminent option. By puckering his lips, his already concave cheeks sink in even more. In contrast to the cheekbones, a very sharp contour can be observed on his face.
Such a distinction can easily be witnessed on the mask itself. The decision to cast only half the face is crucial as the prominent features are captured on the lower half of his face. It forces the viewer to concentrate on the defined features slated across his chin to cheekbone. The mask casted resembles much of the subject his own as he tried to match it to his jaws after the cast is dried and ready.
In trying to ensure that the subject need not strain his cheeks for too long a period, the artist worked a fairly fast pace, completing the main frame in about 20mins. Large stretches of plaster were stretched across both sides of his cheeks, starting from the chin top. Big pieces of plaster caters can cover larger areas, which in turn reduces the unevenness caused by the overlapping of plaster sheets. The artist was sure to spread the first layer smoothly to ensure that the initial layer can capture the contours effectively for later layers. A name card, an improvisation for a kebab stick, was used to reach into areas beside the nostrils and into the gaps between the lips. These areas cannot be reached easily by a human’s blunt fingers.
havent finish la.. but will be..
ok back to work.. ciao
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