Mix Media Painting

A mixed media painting is one that combines different painting and drawing materials and methods, rather than only one medium.

The first thing we did was to paint the canvas with different tools other than a brush. Vegtables and plants can be a tool to paint too!

The tools that I used are:

- a brush

- corn

- sponge

- toothbrush

- pepper

- shoe insoles

- fly

- cabbage

- bunga cengkeh

- foam

On the next week, I applied some collage to my canvas. Strings, ribbons, beads and leather cut outs are the materials I put on to my canvas.

Here is the result of my mix media painting!

Adobe XD Class Exercise

Notes on Websites Design

Compare Existing Websites

Visual Hierarchy

- Responsive website

It changes dimensions based on the screen size in real-time. The content of the web will reposition accordingly. It relies on breaking point to mark the edge.

- Adaptive website

Building Website

image resolution: 72 ppi

file format:

- jpg/png for full-colored images

- gif/png for transparent images/artwork

Exercises

Learning About Website Structure

Marking the margins for different structures of websites.

Marking the columns for different structures of websites.

Making wireframes for each of the different structures of websites.

Learning Basic Tools on Adobe XD

In this class, we learned on how to make a simple website design using Adobe XD

Making a wireframe for the website design by using the tools on Adobe XD and Wires.

Replace the wireframe with the desired pictures

Stamp Postage Design

For the term project, we were assigned to do a stamp postage design.

Carmo Convent in Lisbon, Portugal was the landmark I chose

Moodboard

In the moodboard, I included pictures of the place, stamp design references, the font reference and the color palette.

Sketches

Picture for tracing

This is the picture I used for tracing on illustrator.

Progress

Final Tracing outcome

Coloring Progress

Adding shadow to the artwork

Changing the color to orange for sunset version. I added another layer and color it orange with reduced opacity for the sunset feeling.

Changing the color to dark blue and added another reduced opacity layer with the color dark blue to create the night feeling.

For the night time artwork, I also added stars and used the flare tool to make it glow. I watched a tutorial on Youtube on how to do this.

Final Results

Around Dawn

Sunset

Night

Making the stamp

To make the stamp shape itself, I followed the assignment instructions by making a rectangle and circles (copy using ctrl+D), and use the minus front pathfinder tool to combine all the selected shapes and takes the top objects and removes them from the bottommost object.

Next, I added the artwork and the details of the stamp using the font I chose which is Portuguesa.

Final Stamp Design

Collectibles Design

For my collectibles design, I make a flip packaging.

I applied my tracing and changed the color to white for my collectibles packaging. I set the background color to #C6B6A8 to match it with the Carmo Convent building color.

For the page inside, I added Carmo Convent's brief information on top and place the stamp collection on the bottom.

Final Design with Collectibles