Thailand - Homeland - String Art

Thailand - Homeland - String Art

 This past weekend I decided to created string art bu nailing shape and form the shape with string.

First I thought about what shape or design I wanted to make so I decided to go with my country outline and our flag because my nationality is a big part of my identity and it is something  I always hold dear.

1). I first sketch out the design on the wooden board (since the printer couldn't print a big enough picture)

2). Nailing!!! - the most painful thing
It was very hard to nail since the board were very thin and the nail were to long and the nail would keep bending and fall out. Smash my hand so many time it painful T - T

nailing took about 3 hours (well to be fair I was slacking but still.....)

Here the finish nailing yay~ I think it look pretty decent (comparison)

Then I began string-ing(?) I simply loop the string around the nail randomly to created a nice overlapping of strings 

 I choose these colors and segmented them this way to make it look like the flag of Thailand and these 3 colors on our flag represent:

Red: the people
White: Religions
Blue: The monarch

Finish product

 This was really meaningful to me since my nationality and homeland will always be a part of me no matter where I go. It remind me about our ancestors, culture and tradition and to never forget who I am.

I also think it would make a nice home decor~ Will definitely make more of these
I'm pretty happy with the way it turn out for a first one out I think it can be better with more planing and designing.

It also interesting to learn that sometime I just forget that people perceived thing differently. I show this to any Thai person they know right away what is it, but to person of different nationality it may look just like a blob. So it a valuable lessons that people perceived thing differently base on their background and affiliation.

Long live the King

Afternoon Tea #3

Here is the next drawing in my afternoon tea series I started with a bunch of random sketch until I got to his one

I was going to draw tea cup on top of the cloud but then it turn into this

Green Tea and Mochi

I absolutely love it and think that it really cool that a random doodle could turn into a great idea. 

This was inspire by nature and forest.