1. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN
THE DESIGN SCHOOL
FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT
NAME: Yap Wei Tyng
STUDENT ID NO: 0314058
TOOL SELECTED: Paint brush
WORD COUNT: 589 words
ENGLISH 2 (ENGL 0205)
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: NARRATIVE ESSAY
LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA
SUBMISSION DATE: 14TH NOVEMBER 2013

3. Pre-writing ( Tool: Paint Brush)
Function:
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Creating masterpieces
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Use to paint with water colors( colorful butterflies waving its wings on the papers,
fly through and flew out drawings with beautiful colors)
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Make shading effects on pencils masterpiece
Shapes and part:
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Long circular in cross section tapering towards the end
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A 10.5 inch tall wooden brush that fill with sable filament includes a ferrule that is
a metal band that holds the filament and handle together and gives the brush
strength, a spacer plug within the ferrule which helps the filament sits tightly in
the brush and creates a reservoir for paint, and a handle which provides comfort
and good balance
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Smooth brush filament that was made of sable and it’s Solid extrusion synthetic
filament allow me to clean it easily without any hard work
Weight:
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Smooth as it was flying (when drawing) and strong content of the wood handle
but was as light as it was on the moon.
Temperature:
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Wood handle part always in warm condition

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Ferrule part change temperature due to the environment
Texture:
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Smooth body part
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Slippery at ferrule part
Colors:
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Gold for the body part, light silver for the ferrule part and brown filament
Sounds:
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Tiny sizzling sound like sweeping when it was dry
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Totally silent when it was wet or fill with colors as it was concentrating in
producing a perfect masterpiece
Trademark:
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“Pentel 15” at the body part/ handling part
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15 as it’s body size, Pentel was the place name/the factory where it was borned
Personal description:
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Protect the hair of a brush as if a brush without hair what will it be? Monk?

5. “No brush no paint”, as you can see, we can’t produce a colorful paint
drawing without a 10.5 inches tall wooden or plastic brush with fluffy filament at
the end of the brush. So, it was considered as one of the most important crafting
tools for painting. Whenever I grab my paintbrush and start drawing, I feel that
there was a butterfly with a colorful wings waving out colorful powder from its
wings and flew out beautiful masterpiece of drawing. Paintbrush not only used as
color painting, it can be used to produce shading effects on pencil’s drawing.
How does my paint brush look like? It was a long circular in cross section
tapering towards the end, 10.5 inches tall wooden brush that fill with sable
filament includes a ferrule, a spacer plug within the ferrule which helps the
filament stay together tightly in the brush and a handle that provides me a
comfort and good balance while drawing. It is gold in color for its body part, light
silver for the ferrule part and brown filament at the end of the brush. What is
ferrule? Thing connected with the handle of the paint brush? It was a metal band
that holds filament and handle together to provide the brush strength when
painting.
How does my paint brush feel like when I grab it? It has a smooth body
part due to a thin layer of wax on its golden body. The silver ferrule part was
slippery because it was made of metal. The temperature for my paint brush was
special especially the ferrule part. Wood handle part as its golden body always in
a warm condition but the ferrule part changes its temperature due to the
environment. The ferrule part will be a bit cold when I place it in a air-condition
room or it was a windy day, and it remain warm when it was in a room

6. temperature. The best part for the paint brush is the smooth brush filament that
was made of sable, as it was the highest quality brush filament among all the
brushes. The brush’s solid extrusion synthetic filament allows me to clean it after
using it easily without any hard work.
How heavy it is? It is a perfect weight for every artist and me. Whenever I
start drawing using this precious paint brush, it was smooth as it was flying. The
wooden handle has strong content inside it but it was as light as it was on the
moon. When I drawing it on a pencil sketches to make shading, it should be dry,
it has a tiny sizzling sound as it was sweeping the dust and dirt on my paper.
When I use it on drawing water color, it was totally silent as it was concentrating
in producing a perfect masterpiece. What this perfect paint brush’s name? It has
a trademark that written “Pentel 15” and I suppose that should be its name and
its size.
After finish using it, I will clean it properly as to protect its hair from getting
“dandruffs” and dropping off. The hair of a paint brush is very important as if a
brush that without hair, what can it do and what will it be? A brush monk? I
always keep it in a safe place so it will never get hurt by kids or animals in house.
I will always ensure it can help me to produce a new masterpiece after I used it to
create a masterpiece and keep it clean.
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