Taiwan Memories

As part of my school's GCP program, I went to Taiwan at the end of last year. During the 18-day program, we visited schools and various tourist attractions. I can only say that Taiwan is really really beautiful :) Below are some photos that I took in Taiwan:

It's a long story. To put it short: strong wind.

The umbrella belonged to my roommate by the way. She didn't get it back :(

Can you tell that this is taken from inside a bus? :D

The sun was setting when we were on the way to dinner (I think) and I caught sight of the amazing sunset view outside the window. I like how the sky is contrastingly orange and grey :)

Pretty clouds :)

I took this picture because the tree that these pink flowers were growing on was completely branches with no leaves. It seems so magical that a bunch of small, bright pink flowers can grow on such a tree :D

This picture of flowers is taken during our visit to the Taiwan Floral Expo 2010. There were many different species of flowers in the expo, and I enjoyed being able to crouch down and take so many macro shots. The following 4 photos are also taken in the Floral Expo.

This photo is pretty grainy because I zoomed too much to take the squirrel :/

The top levels of Taipei 101 building that was not accessible to visitors.

The sky was really pretty that day :)

Notice the bright thing in the middle of the orange sky. I THINK IT'S A METEOR :D

Artist's Statement

My coursework is inspired by the theme "Childhood". To me, my childhood was when I was the happiest as my life was very carefree then. Till now, I still miss my childhood a lot and thus I hope to incorporate it into my artwork.
My primary idea for my coursework was to showcase certain aspects of childhood through photography. However, taking into account that everyone's childhood is personal and very different from one another's, I want to do a scrapbook. This allows explanations for the photographs and also gives space for a story which might link the photographs better.

You can suggest any idea that you might have on how I can further develop my idea or tell me something memorable from your childhood, whether they are what you did, saw or heard.

Feel free to comment on this post :)

Categories

So we have to have certain categories in our blog. I don't do a wide variety of art, so I won't have artworks for some of the categories. But who knows maybe I will do those kinds of artworks in the future :)

Categories

- Coursework everything and anything to do with my sec4 coursework

- 2D Art paintings, sketches etc

- 2D Design designs on paper? (eg. fashion design), graphic design (using computer)

- 3D Art sculptures etc

- 3D Design 3D forms of 2D design

- Others anything that doesn't fit into the above categories

- Others - photography this is not one of the required categories, but I thought it would be good to list photography as one category on its own because I tend to do more of it (technically it's under others :D)

A Proper Introduction

Chocolate Cauldrons are boxed chocolates that are filled with Firewhiskey and presumably shaped like cauldrons.

First mentioned in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as the chocolate that Ron Weasley ate, and an indirect cause of him getting poisoned later on. But no, Chocolate Cauldrons are not poisonous :)

I thought I would explain my blog URL, because it doesn't really make a lot of sense if you don't read Harry Potter. The Harry Potter series played an important part in my childhood and enriched my imagination greatly, which helped a lot in my art as I could let my creativity flow wildly.

This blog is created primarily because it was compulsory to, but this is a platform for me to showcase my art pieces that I have done. Through these posts I hope to learn from my past mistakes so that I can improve in my work. I'm more interested in photography (mainly because I can't really paint D:), thus I also hope that through posting some photos that I took I can improve my techniques and take better photographs in the future :)