BenchArt day 2

day 2 follows and I arrived at a completely different scene from what I left last night-the tents down and the ground flooded from the morning rain. There was my father who came straight from work(he worked throughout the night and hasn't slept a wink- isn't he incredible?), laying down the crepe paper he got from work onto the floor as a replacement for the slippery plastic sheets.

Picture as taken from a report on Channel News Asia's website

(they had to choose the least appealing photo out of the hundreds they took that day)

My goal for today was to finish up the details on the top, and start working on the sides. And that is exactly what I did.

Me painting in solitude while the friends I called over for assistance and company play games by themselves, afraid to bother my painting

The media came in the afternoon to get footage of the painting and to interview us students and teachers.(man, was I nervous)
The cameras were always near and sometimes even nearer to take our hands in action. The reporters came to our tent a while later, holding up an intimidating piece of metal to record our answer. All my vocabulary flew out of the window and you could probably guess what happened afterwards. They interviewed my father as well and about half an hour later, they came back to interview the story behind my father and I which they found interesting and suitable for a section on the newspaper where they interview the citizens on their lives.
Of course we accepted and my father explained how he have been doing art since his secondary school days and used to work as a carpet designer and a landscape architecture model maker.(and that we have a waterfall in our house that he painted in a day)

 Then the story came to me; about how I've been drawing since the age of four and how our styles are totally different- he gears towards realism and I draw more of manga and does more of impressionism.(Though I see that as untrue, since I do like to do realism. I just don't do it enough)

 After a little more 'chatting', a photographer came and took photos of us together. A few on us painting and one on us just being goofy like how we always are. She then informed us that she'll give us a call when the article is published. That was quite the experience.

Midway through the painting, my father headed home for a well deserved sleep before another long night at work. I called my friends over (one of them whom I asked for assistance and two more for company) and all they ended up doing was stare at me painting and play games by themselves at a corner of the tent. Another friend came by a while later to visit me and decided to come assist me the next morning, since another assistant of mine couldn't make it for tomorrow.

I decided to make a small change to the design for improvement: Painting the lines in the background white instead of black. I thought it'd make the details stand out even more, and I wanted the effect of shattered glass.

The number of instances where people(especially foreigners) stopping by to take pictures and talk to us increased on the second day, where the main focus was close to completion. I feel like I've received a lifetime's worth of praise.
My classmate messaged me in the evening saying that she saw me on the news along with two videos. That was pretty fast!

I passed on the news to my good friend who calls herself my 'number one fan' and she immediately went to camp for the next news appearance and even circled out a photo she took and sent it to me

I packed up for home at a little past six and that concluded a productive second day.