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Composition was talked about a lot during both critiques. With Catherine we talked about how her smaller collages had images that worked together to form a sort of portrait which made everything cohesive when you look at it. With her larger works this cohesiveness in the images was lost on a lot of people and it became more about the texture of her work as another distressed surface. Dorothy's paintings on the other hand are very cropped in on a specific image. Some commented that her work needed to be larger and expand on the space outside of her paintings. Others disagreed and said the cropping added to her context of the work being of memories, where you can only see part of what happened. It got me thinking more about my work and how I choose to frame my figures and where I let objects overlap each other.
Tevin Garcia, Claudia Brooks, Evan Anderson, Jessica Leuther
Today's class critiques were sponsored by Coffee! the magical bean water. While I did want to go take a nap, I'm glad I was able to stay awake and see where these artists are at knowing where they started. What I took away from today was a lot to do with paint application and how it can contribute to the overall feeling of the artwork. It can be with the hand used to gesture or draw into a painting as well as the paint itself as a material. Looking at my own work and trying to apply today to it I might start freeing up my hand in some places while allowing the paint to do what it wants and see if some experimentation in application can give me a vibe in my painting I might not have found otherwise. Trying to get a better sense of depth and lighting in my works... also using these two pieces to test out going in with a plan vs letting the painting go where it wants to. Side note, working on panel is very strange. Im not sure if I'm a fan of it or not but I'm also still learning how to manipulate the paint in interesting ways so I will have to see where it goes from here.
Painting on panel for the first time in acrylics. It's a very smooth surface that doesn't soak up the water like canvas does....which makes painting different. I'm applying the paint ontop of the surface instead of pushing it in. Plus if the acrylic paint is watered down it tends to resist the surface altogether. Odd way to start a painting but I'm looking forward to the challenge!
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