19 September
TCC lessons began and
we were given the 2 hours to practice before our test. I tried mixing various
colours to see what I got. Miss Anita showed me how to darken my foreground in
my pervious painting of the car and the building and how to create the illusion
of distant in a composition. The stakes are higher this time round. Miss Anita wanted 3 thumbnail sketches , the final painting with an addition of artist statement! Can it be done?
Lunch was light as I
ate a bowl of wonton and soon the TCC test was to commence. I choose a spot at
the back of the Fine arts building and started painting the scenery at a nearby
public toilet. 15 minutes later into the painting, I heard the familiar buzzing
sound. I smacked my right shoulder and right in the center of my palm was a
mosquito. I whipped out my tiger balm mosquito
repellent and sprayed at my limbs praying that the mosquitos would not feed on
me any more. The bug crisis did not end, soon after the mosquitoes left, a wasp
appeared and I found it most particular as it landed on my shirt and kept
following me around. It was hard to paint and I kept one eye on the hovering
wasp in fear that it would attack me. It left after 10 mins and as I sprayed my
mosquito repellent once more, the wasp appeared again. That was went it stuck
me, the wasp was attracted to the mosquito repellent!
After all the drama
had ended, I was finally able to concentrate on my painting. I did very quick
thumbnails and started apply light washes onto my work. I applied layer after
layer and soon realized that the layers had made my work too thick. It was
around 4 pm already and I hurriedly finished my artist statement and made a few
amendments before presenting the work to Miss Anita. It was, as I had feared,
she said it looked a bit like oil painting.
It was disheartening to think that I am still not able to control the
amount of paint and water in my watercolours. Sigh I still have a long way to
go!
My tummy grumbles and
reminds me of the delectable Japanese curry at cultural street. Guess what I
had for dinner!
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