But I’m kinda attached to the macro lens … guess I’d have to save up to buy my own!

Went to NJC’s gallery opening last week. Quite cool – and even startling. (Will refrain from giving further comments until our marks are revealed, haha). Will be going to RJC for theirs – too bad some of my peers can’t come too, so I guess we’ll be going in small batches.

Aaaaand, our own opening is on the 25th! Do come by, there’s refreshments (haha). Most importantly, there’s our ARTWORK. Treat your eyes to a feast of artworks too! (We hope we won’t disappoint!)

Have to end here. Must mug.

<3, Nooboet

Changed the whole NATURE of my work. Meh.

Lucky some of the stuff I’ve done are still relevant. I’ve done more since. But…

What I lack :

A proper concept.

Doom.

<3, nooboet

Justification for above statement. Half the holiday’s gone and :

1) I’ve done MCQ for a bio tutorial. I have yet to touch the structured and the free response.

2) I’ve sketched a picture of a wire sculpture. It occupies about half an A4. I’m supposed to have 3 A3 worth of fully-fledged ideas. Almost complete ideas. As of now, 0.

3) I’ve tackled the first few questions of a Bio paper that is meant for holiday homework. Not even halfway done.

4) I’ve finished two questions worth of corrections for Math EOY. There are 10+ questions, and none of them I got full marks. That’s at least 8 questions to go.

5) I still have Virus tutorial, Permutation and Combination tutorial, Issues and Ideas, Chem Planning exercises, Math holiday revision paper, Bio test to revise, Math test to revise, I don’t know if there’s one for Chem, Christmas carols to memorize, Other choir songs to memorize, PIANO AHHHH D:

x.x

Wanted to draw a little more stuff for next year (learnt my lesson for EOY :/), but art room was locked; the teacher left early to get the results for her child.

PSLE! Am hoping that my p6 juniors from XNPS diabolo team did well

Must. Buck. Up.

~nooboet

p.s. Did you realize this is just a homework planner / tracker?

Thought process: Since I’m failing math and chem, might as well fail bio, yeah?

The main point of this post is not the evil exams tho, it’s PHOTO JOURNAL.

What’s that? If you go back a few posts and see a few edited photos, that’s that. Basically we need 5 edited stuff for it. Preferably with something linking it all together. Me : Other worldly.

Not. Good. Other worldly as in exaggerated editing that it looks fake :/ But I sorta had fun playing around with the photos. Here are some of them:

Cloth. I hope the shopkeeper doesn’t mind! But it’s so pretty, all the colourful scarfs…

I think you remember this guy

A view from my house. I call this a patchwork of buildings, inspired by…a picture taken by photographer Tom Mackie (I’ve a post from him long ago). He found another angle in what-would-have-looked-very postcardish-buildings and brought out the repeating patterns in the building. So uh, this was an attempt by me :/

The bottom of a motorcycle that I saw parked and left alone.

Taken in sec 3 (If you care to go back many many posts, you might see the original). Edited this with the others ‘cos I like the pyramids

Botanic. I like the complementary colours and tried to emphasize them ><

This was shown in another post too…

I like the little cloud on the top left. Made me very amused

As I swore before : I did not do any manhandling nor edited in on the computer. The yellow black thing was crooked already.

In the evening, when the school is dark and the lights are lit, you get to see the school in a different light, literally too.

I can’t remember which cushion this is from…

I call them my powerful chicken, even though they’re not.

Ordinary tissue paper.

A plant with chameleon photoshopped on and etherealified.

White buildings also visible from my house.

So there, I’ll just ask my teacher what to submit from this batch ^^

Bye~ I’ve Bio to study ><

Nooboet.

The roach's dying place.

And this is the result after spraying the roach with a huge quantity of leather-cleaning agent and bleach that rivals what Willy-Wonka happily doused one of the Grannies with. Then my sister came, armed with CIF (Oh, wonders!) and tadaa, it’s quite dead. The above picture was taken aften patiently washing the roach from a distance away with the shower head.

Roach in diff angle.

Attacking the CIF coat with warm water eventually washed it off and allowed me to maneuver the roachie to somewhere on the toilet floor with better lighting. And thus the series of photos were taken.

Here I flipped it over (with a broom) and realized it isn’t that old – the outer shell (exoskeleton?) is still transparent and not fully formed (aka no pretty patterns that the adult roach has). And, uh, the last segment (tail end) is a little detached from the rest of the nymph…I think the hot water did that. Maybe the broom worsened the condition. And thus Chiakroach has much prep photos!

Going down to roach perspective!

Well, the reason I even took photos were for PREP for the oil painting (see previous post), so I put my foot there to mimic squashing the roach (o.0). But since the roach was already slightly mauled (the tail bit), I didn’t actually squash it. No point destroying the poor carcass further.

Subjected to the shower.

Nevertheless that did not stop me from dousing it with another spout of water attack.

Actually, I was trying to wash the roach down the drain, then I suddenly realized : Why not take more pictures?

So…

Yeah, these serves as prep for my painting! The roach did not die in vain. (However, comments about roach killing has induced a long discussion about efficient roach killing methods and other roach experiments on facebook when I made a reference to it. Hmm, the roach isn’t a creature that people heavily sympathize with, apparently.)

Bye~,

Nooboet

Recording the progress of my roach over the weeks

Hmm. So since the last time you saw roachie here, she’s (well, I’ve rendered her in a sorta pretty way, as my peers and mom have told me) earned herself a body and a few layers of paint (arrgh with acrylic).

Note the lighting on the body? Yep, that's the thing that I changed mainly -.-

See the caption? I think I didn’t refer properly to the printed picture enough…Just sorta painted with whatever’s in my mind. And to my horror I realized why the lighting looked so retarded was because I painted it in one solid block instead of allowing it to bring out the texture of the roach’s body. Following that more details were added to the roach’s legs, more layers of colour yadaa yadaa, and also I used the wrong green. Uh, the weird cigarette like protrusions at the right of the roach (the unidentifiable things). You might’ve noticed that there’s an addition of a diff green. It’s a mistake that I’m still trying to correct TT.TT

Finally coloured in the bg.

My usual policy is to paint the bg first. But I haven’t decided on the bg. Til now, duh. So after playing around with good, primitive Paint, I decided that Mr Tan’s suggestion of red was the most…effective. The other colours look ugh. Some of the fellow peachers were startled though. And the red isn’t a very thick paint…It’s rather translucent and can’t cover the pencil marks at all. So I’m now using a custom-mixed cherry red + this orange-red + white to make the colour blend further.

Still have much to do :/ Deadline’s very close D:

And … uh … roach studies. Courtesy of the Bio O students for allowing me to kope and harass their poor roaches so that I can have more references

Pictures where container has masking tape -> Marshamallow’s.

Pictures where there’s bread in the container -> MX’s.

And thanks to Shao for lending me her camera (would you believe I lost mine? Including all the Fac outing pictures inside it and more that I have yet to transfer.)

Ref roach 1

Ref roach 2

Uh, the above 2 are tinted ‘cos I was fiddling with my friend’s camera. You know, the in-built White-balance settings…

Ref roach 3

Ref roach 4

Ref roach 5

Ref roach 6

Ref roach 7

Ref roach 8

Why roachie? Hmm. Not too sure yet. It’s just something I thought I would really like to examine and paint (yeah, when normal people would have screamed and yelled. And they have. I think my friends had their fill going WTH when they first saw roachie.) So yeah, I think the significance has something to do with the process of painting a roach. Or the fact that it’s a roach. Or maybe the fact that it’s squashed and the bg is red. OR maybe that I actually beautified it despite being a squashed roachie.

The upside/downside of this is I’m a little less scared of roachies. Unless they suddenly jump at me, crawl across my feet or start flying. I think the patterns on their wings, the body, and the spikes on their head are real cool!

Nooboet.

This is the outcome of a aepic peach trip around Bugis and some photoshop.

1) While everyone side stepped the roach, I went up and took a picture

2) Tweaked the contrast and brightness, and gave it a little more colour so it’ll look cool and supernatural

And this is going to be my painting (familiar? Similar to what I did 2 years ago with Mermaid Lagoon!)

That’s my roach in the making. Acrylic dries so much faster than oil; some of us (including me) who weren’t used to acrylic were groaning about it. With oil, you can take you time choosing colours and blending them…with acrylic you need to work really fast to let the colours blend before they dry D:

And they can end up quite thin when doing the first layer >< But it gets easier after awhile, once there’s a base layer!

Also taken during the same peach trip and photoshopped (in fact, all the pictures were taken during the trip and went through some photoshop). This was almost accidental. I captured the guy without realising I caught my friends too. Tweaked around with the contrast and brightness, made both sides more even in lighting (the left was heavily underexposed) and tadaa, this picture was created.

No, I did not use super human strength to warp the stick, neither did I use photoshop to warp it. I was staring at the road and realised that there was something weird about the picture…something out of line =D

Basically I made the rest of the picture greyscale and played around with the glowing thing.

Animals never cooperate during photoshoots. Especially rowdy, wild and feathered ones. This pair was sitting on a potted plant before they hopped off and started having an animated argument. I recorded it down, with much luck on my side and split second aiming. Didn’t turn out too bad, so I had fun emphasizing them on photoshop, tweaking colour, contrast, hue and saturation…quite a bit was done on photoshop for this picture. Had plenty of fun.

And the roach shall keep me busy for the next few weeks ^^

nooboet leaves this website to stone for another few more months.