This is an image resource for Sec 3s.

"I think I am anti-experimental and anti-contemplative, anti-nuance,
anti-getting away from the tyranny of the rectangle, anti-movement and
light, anti-mystery, anti-paint quality, anti-Zen and anti all of those
brilliant ideas of preceding movements which everyone understands so
thoroughly." - Roy Lichtenstein>*

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This is an image resource for Sec 2s.

For this worksheet, you are to analyse how the elements and principles of design are used in this painiting. Here are 2 very good resource on Elements and Principles of Design if you do not have your textbook with you.

Articulation: Learning to Look at Art

The Artist’s Toolkit

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All the following are open to any MGS girl, Sec 1 - 4, as well as to the old girls of the school. If you are passionate about designing posters and logos and have the time and commitment to work on it, please let me know. The designers will need to work closely with me to ensure the final product meets professional design requirements. Alternatively, if you feel that you have a good idea for the design but you do not have the time to commit to the process, and do not mind letting other designers to develop your idea further, you may also email me your ideas. All designers and contributors will be credited.

POSTER DESIGN FOR "FROM EVE TO MARY - WALKING WITH WOMEN" MUSICAL

This will be the poster for the musical during the celebrate MGS event. The story of the musical revolves around the different women that appears in the Bible. The audience for this musical will follow the actors and cast as the performance takes place at different venues around the school. Similarly, the design needs to be done within a fortnight.

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Finally I can post up pictures of the completed Series 2 postcards here!

And this is the first card of the series, serial number 0010-06! It is going to lucky girl Eunice! And even luckier is that her name is on it!

Making the postcards is so extremely fun and very satisfying and I would love to keep making them! It is also so thrilling to receive postcards through the post and it is the highlight of the day definitely. I am frustrated that I have been rather slow on my part to make and send my postcards to you and now with the new series completed, 18 lucky ones should have already received one of my Gimme Shoos postcards. I shall attempt to make the next few series faster!

Mailing postcards which you have spent some amount of time and effort making can truly be a heartbreaking moment. I know some of you share this same sentiment whenever I received a postcard nicely enclosed in an envelope for its protection, fearing that the evil postal service will somehow chew up our precious creations in the teeth of their merciless sorting machines. Or when you totally refuse to send it through the post. Or when you wrap up your postcard in a plastic bag. Or when you send it by REGISTERED post.

Hence, when I dropped my first batch of postcards into the mailbox last week, my heart was like jumping in my throat and it is as if I am bidding farewell to my closest friends. As I walked away from the post office, I began to wonder and worry if these fragile postcards will survive or lose their way in the post. Secretly I prayed for their well being and wished every one of them bon voyage there and then.

Thanks to Evangeline for letting me know you have received my postcard! I am so relieved! You told me that some pieces have fallen off from the postcard. Well that is life. I am truly glad the plucky postcard has made its way through the outside world and finally found its way to you. It can now wear its battle scars proudly like badges of its attainment.

Dove that ventured outside,
flying far from the dovecote:
housed and protected again,
one with the day, the night,
knows what serenity is,
for she has felt her wings
pass through all distance and fear
in the course of her wanderings.

The doves that remained at home,
never exposed to loss,
innocent and secure,
cannot know tenderness;
only the won-back heart
can ever be satisfied: free,
through all it has given up,
to rejoice in its mastery.

Being arches itself
over the vast abyss.
Ah the ball that we dared,
that we hurled into infinite space,
doesn’t it fill our hands
differently with its return:
heavier by the weight
of where it has been.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

P.S. If you have prayed Sam, then your prayers have been answered.

P.P.S. Natalie asked me if it is alright to use the word "bloody" in her worksheet. Personally I always felt "bloody" is a bloody fine word. It is full of emotions and texture and it evokes a visual image. I especially love the word "bloody" when it is used correctly like this. So when is it not okay to use the word then? When it is used to hurt and disparage others obviously.

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"In August 62 I started doing silkscreens. I wanted something
stronger that gave more of an assembly line effect. With silkscreening
you pick a photograph, blow it up, transfer it in glue onto silk, and
then roll ink across it so the ink goes through the silk but not
through the glue. That way you get the same image, slightly different
each time. It was all so simple quick and chancy. I was thrilled with
it. When Marilyn Monroe happened to die that month, I got the idea to
make screens of her beautiful face the first Marilyns." - Andy Warhol >*

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