Ideation and Concept

Ideas

(1) Watercolor Rain Room

Using the idea of raining watercolour, these rain will fall in the room where audience will need to walk through these rain and experience
the raining environment. Once they step in the room, audience will hear the sound of rain droplets thus discovering thousands of falling
watercolour droplets that responds to their movement. Thus audience actually gets to experience rain without getting wet.

(2) Watercolor Visual

Using the concept of computer generated visualisation image on an interactive screen, there will be watercolour droplets emerging from

the screen interactively with audience’s movements when audience touch the screen.

Concept

Water

Water is a transparent fluid which forms the world's streams, lakes, oceans and rain, and is the main constituent of the fluids of living things.

Color

The property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light.

Watercolor 

The paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-soluble vehicle. 

Aim and objective

Aim and objective

The objective of this project is that I wanted to study the behavior and perspective of the individuals that come in touch or interact with the installation while listening to some certain music as the background sound.

Basically, my aim towards this project is to relive the childhood memories while audience interact with the installation(watercolor visual)

Problem Identification

Problem Identification

Colors can give the effect to our feeling and eye’s view as well as our mood or emotion. As children,playing
with watercolor was joyful and fun because it is very colourful just like rainbow. As an adult,we see water-
color from different perspective. But is it all of us has the same view?
How I want to play with the space and make my installation more interactive and attract people or
audience to try it? Is it possible to change the visualisation of watercolor technique when audience touch
the interactive screen. People will understand what I’m trying to show or whether my aim and objective will
be achieved? 

Background Research (Watercolor)

 What is Watercolor?

• Usually transparent,appear luminous because the pigments are laid down in a relatively pure form with few fillers obscuring the pigment colors.
• Watercolor can also be made opaque by adding Chinese white
• In China,Korea and Japan,painting it has been the dominant-medium ,often in 
• monochrome black or browns.
• In East Asia, watercolor painting with ink is referred to as brush painting or scroll 
• painting.
• The traditional and most common support for watercolor painting is paper-papyrus ,
• bark paper canvas etc.
• Painting method-paints are made of pigments suspended in water soluble vehicle
• Refers to both the medium and resulting artwork

Kids and Water

Kids and Water


The pictures below show my nephew and niece enjoying themselves when they see water and play with it.

1 year old kid

They enjoy playing the water.

As if everyone should aware that most of the kids love to play with water so much. Kids seems to be so eager and exhilarated while playing with water especially by the time they take their bath.

Kids tend to think and feel that the water act just like their physical toys. They spend hours in the bathroom just to play with this non-physical toy which is water.

Some of the adults might not realize the development of a kid and their perspective on something. They see lots of things from different view as their imagination differ from us. Kids will see the things surround them based on their understanding, observation and mostly from their imagination.

Children and adults see the world differently

Children and adults see the world differently

Scientists at UCL (University College London) and Birkbeck, University of London have found that children younger than 12 do not combine different sensory information to make sense of the world as adults do. The results are :Children are able to keep information from their senses separate and may therefore perceive the visual world differently unlike adults.


Children below 12 years old do not combine different sensory information to make sense of the world as adults do.

Children’s experience of the visual world is very different to that of adults.

Based on this experiment,scientists asked children and adults wearing 3D glasses to compare two slanted surfaces and judge which is the
“flattest”, given perspectiveand binocular information separately, or both together.

It was not until 12 years that children combined perspective and binocular information to improve the accuracy in their judgements, as adults do

This implies that adults combine different kinds of visual information into a single unified estimate, whereas children do not.

Scientists asked whether children might be able to avoid sensory fusion by keeping visual information separate. Researchers used special 3D
 discs in which perspective and binocular information sometimes disagreed.

Adults tended to take an average of the perspective and the binocular information, they were poor at determining whether the slant of some
discs was the same or different as a comparison disc.

 By contrast, 6-year-olds had no trouble in spotting differences between discs of this kind. This shows that 6-year-olds can “see” separate kinds
 of visual information that adults cannot.

Kids Vs Adult

Kids vs Adults

It is no secret that kids see things completely different than us as adults. It’s the fact that kids don’t understand everything that is going on
around them, so they make up stories and their own impressions to describe some situations in their lives and what they see around them.
Most of the kids see things around them as toys.

Perspective ( Thoughts)

 Perspective (thoughts)

Perspective is the way you see something with your own view.Perspective has a Latin root meaning "look through" or "perceive," and all the meanings of perspective have something to do with looking. For example, if you observe the world from cat’s perspective, you see through the cat's eyes. Or if you see something from special people(disable people) it will bring the different meaning.

Perspective (noun) (thought) 

The way of considering something.

Get/keep something in perspective

To think about a situation or problem in a wise and reasonable way.

Put something in(to) perspective

To compare something to other things so that it can be fairly judged.

Comparative perspective

Without compared our society with other societies or system, The comparative perspective is based on the idea that a society or social systemcannot be fully understood The main limitation of this perspective is that societies differ in so many ways and therefore may not always be compared meaningfully

Perspective in psychology

There are many different ways of thinking about human behavior. There are variety of perspectives when studying how people think,feel and behave. Most psychologists would agree that no one perspective is correct, Each perspective has its strengths and weaknesses, and brings something different to our understanding of human behavior.

The Psychodynamic Perspective

The psychodynamic perspective originated with the work of Sigmund Freud. This view of psychology and human behavior emphasizes the

 role of the unconscious mind, early childhood experiences, and interpersonal relationships to explain human behavior and to treat people

 suffering from mental illnesses.

The Behavioral Perspective

Behavioral psychology is a perspective that focuses on learned behaviors. The behavioral perspective is still concerned with how behaviors are 

learned and reinforced. Behavioral principles are often applied in mental health settings, where therapists and counselors use these techniques 

to explain and treat a variety of illnesses.

The Cognitive Perspective

This area of psychology focuses on mental processes such as memory, thinking, problem solving, language and decision-making. Cognitive 

psychologists often utilizean information-processing model, comparing the human mind to a computer, to conceptualize how information is 

acquired, processed, stored, and utilized.

The Cross-Cultural Perspective

Cross-cultural psychology is a fairly new perspective that has grown significantly over the last twenty years. These psychologists 

and researchers look at human behavior across different cultures.

The Evolutionary Perspective

Evolutionary psychology is focused on the study of how evolution explains physiological processes.

The Humanistic Perspective

this perspective emphasizes the role of motivation on thought and behavior.Concepts such as self-actualization are an essential 

part of this perspective. Those who take the humanist perspective focus on the ways that human beings are driven to grow, change

, and develop their personal potential. Positive psychology is one relatively recent movement in psychology that has its roots in the

 humanist perspective.

The Evolutionary Perspective

Evolutionary psychology is focused on the study of how evolution explains physiological processes.

Perspective ( Visual)

Perspective (visual)

Perspective, in the context of vision and visual perception, is the way in which objects appear to the eye based on their spatial attributes; or their
dimensions and the position of the eye relative to the objects. There are two main meanings of the term: linear perspective and aerial perspective.

Linear Perspective

The lines of manmade objects (roads, buildings) are at right angles to the picture plane and converge toward a vanishing point in a form of
perspective.The greater the distance of the object from the eye, the greater is the height of this triangle, and the less the visual angle.

Perspective is also seen in the way the parallel lines of railway tracks appear to meet at a distant point, the vanishing point. This point lies on a line, 

called the geometrical horizon, at the level of the viewer's eye.

Aerial Perspective

Aerial perspective or also known as atmospehric perspective deals with creating the illusion of depth, the atmospheric effects on tones and colours.

Banks of the Seine in Autumn, oil painting by Alfred Sisley; in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Perspective- Central Eye Level 

A central eye level,is useful when you want to create an equal balance between the sky and foreground in a landscape.

Constable uses a centrally positioned eye level to create a balanced composition where all elements of the subject - figures, 

foreground, trees and sky - are of equal importance to its design. 

Perspective- High Eye Level 

A high eye level in perspective drawing focuses more attention on the middle and distant areas of a picture. Restricted view 

of objects that are close as you are essentially looking down upon them.

Perspective- Low Eye Level 

A low eye level can be used for great dramatic effect in landscape painting. When viewpoint is low, you emphasize the height and

 power of objects in the foreground. This the effect of making the audience feel very small and the landscape seem very powerful.

As well as creating a spectacularly radiant sky with his setting sun, Turner also uses the low eye level to emphasize the height of 

the ghostly ship, even although it is still some distance away.

 Out Perspective 

 An object or person does not have the correct size or position compared with other things in the picture that is out of perspective, it 

 does not look real or natural. 

 In Perspective 

 An object or person has the correct size and position in comparison with other things in the picture that is in perspective,

 Perspective noun (Art)

The objects will appear smaller when they are far away from our sights and the parallel lines appear to meet each other at a point in 

the distance.

Perspective ( Graphical )

Perspective (Graphical)

In glossary of art, perspective is one of the technique to represent a three dimensional world on a two dimensional surface in a way
that looks realistic and accurate,as we see it in nature. other than that, perspective applied as we known them today developed during
the Renaissance.

Three basic types of perspective are one-point,two-point and three point. This three points of perspective are refers to the number of
vanishing points used to create the perspective illusion. But the most commonly use is two point perspective.




                              One Point Perspective
Look straight at the side of an object. Uses only one vanishing point.

 In these example,the line of sight in one-point perspective is perpendicular (at a right angle to)

 the side of the cube.That means you see the near side in plane view

 (actual shape undistorted by perspective).

Vertical edges are shown as vertical lines.

Horizontal edges (perpendicular to the line of sight and parallel to the ground) are shown as horizontal lines.

Edges that recede (are parallel to the line of sight) are on lines that converge at the vanishing point on the

 horizon line.

These same three (and only these three) kinds of lines are used to draw the cubes regardless to where they are 

in the picture.

The cube to the left, while technically correct, appears distorted. One-point perspective only depicts 

objects near the vanishing point with accuracy.

Two Point Perspective

When look at or into the corner of the object. There are two vanishing points since the two sets of side are receding in two different ways. 

 There are only three different kinds of lines needed to draw in two-point perspective:

Vertical edges are drawn as vertical lines.

Edges of sides that recede toward the right are on lines converging at the right vanishing point.

Edges of sides that recede toward the left are on lines converging at the left vanishing point.

Both of the cubes in the example use only the same three kinds of lines. You see the top of the 

cube below the horizon line (your eye level). You see the bottom of the cube above the horizon line 

and more of its left side because it is to the right of your position in the center of the vanishing points.

In the real world vanishing points are very far apart. Imagine strings streaming out parallel to the edges of a
cube going to the horizon. The horizon is miles away so the vanishing points are many miles apart. When you
draw them only a few inches apart on a piece of paper there is going to be some distortion in the image produced.

Three Point Perspective

Three-point perspective is usually used for buildings seen from above (or below). In addition to the two vanishing points from before,
 one for each wall, there is now one for how those walls recede into the ground. This third vanishing point will be below the ground.
 Looking up at a tall building is another common example of the third vanishing point. This time the third vanishing point is high in space.