Design Principles: Project 2 - Sense of Place

28.5.2021 - 4.6.2021 (Week 9 - Week 10)

Wendy Seto / 0348805
GCD60804 Design Principles / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Project 2: Sense of Place

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INSTRUCTIONS

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PRACTICAL

Project 2: Sense of Place

1. Visual Research:

fig 1.1 sense of place art references from pinterest

2. Idea Exploration: 

I wanted to work on something related to home as it is where my heart belongs to. Wherever I go, no matter how far, I will always come back. Also, home is sometimes the people. There are people that feels like home, you feel safe just by simply being around them. For me, those people are my family and my close friends. Talking about the sense of place, I wanted to focus on the places that feel like home to me. 

fig 2.1 my first home since I was born until I turned 12

fig 2.2 my home when I live alone abroad for the first time

fig 2.3 my current home

I decided to go with my current home since it is the present. I moved here one day before I entered high school due to an internal family drama. However, I think it was one of the best decision we have ever made and I noticed a lot of growth ever since. I became more aware and expressive with the things I want to do and things that make me happy. Basically, I went through a transition from being an innocent kid, a cheerful teenager to a stressful adult haunted by deadlines here in this house.

3. Idea Visualization: 

I actually attempted on recording a timelapse for this painting process but my camera ran out of battery in the middle of it so I only have these 2 work in progress shots.

fig 3.1 sketching 05/06/21

fig 3.2 started painting 05/06/21


fig 3.3 mom made me a strawberry smoothies <3 05/06/21

I did not paint it exactly the same as the original scene since it gets dark already and I forgot to take any picture of it lmao. Hence, I cannot really see the details at night so I just simplify the scenery. I put the word farewell on it, because I was really sad when doing this painting that I literally cried after. Writing this makes me cringe so much hahaha. I am okay now, no worries!

fig 3.4 sense of place painting result 05/06/21

fig 1.4 final sense of place painting.jpg  05/06/21

fig 1.5 final sense of place painting.pdf  05/06/21

It is a very simple painting of the windows in my current home from the outside point of view. All the plants were planted by my mom, it is some kind of her hobby. They are all becoming so beautiful which makes it my favourite spot to take pictures of literally anything. Yep, I use them as a background when taking pictures of another objects most of the time hahahah. This area receives a direct sunlight as well so the lighting is pretty nice which I freaking loveee! If you see the original picture in fig 2.3, you may or may not notice that there is a kitchen at the right side of the windows where my mom is spending most of her time at. She loves to cook and she cooks the best food. This house means a lot to her and I can see that she is a lot happier after we moved in. It was one of the reason why I decided to paint this certain space. The best feeling in the whole world is to be able to see your loved ones happy, especially your mom. My mom is the love of my life, I aspire to be as strong and as multitalented as her when I grew up.

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REFLECTION

Surprisingly, I kinda like how it turned out. I love warm tones and I think the colours here are very well blended comparing to the painting I did for project 1. The only thing disturbing is the word "farewell" on it, I lowkey wish I did not put it there hahahah. However, it is not that bad. It still looks good. If I am recreating this painting in the future, I might add more details on the plants.