Jen has amazing painting skills and I love looking at this painting of hers in particular. She's able to pick and choose where she wants to get super specific about what she is painting, for instance the baby dolls, and they look exactly like an actual doll you could hold. Then she does a 180 and has super graphic elements like her pixelated clouds or the flat more abstracted shapes that completely contrast her modeled portions. My favorite skill that I admire the most is her trompe-l'œil. The paper dino and the duck taped cloud blow my mind because even up close they look like paper that I could touch! What I got most from her critique is the importance of having a cohesive idea or style that brings a body of work together. While I can understand that all her work is about going against our first impression of something (i.e. gender/material/image/2Dness/ 3Dness), all her paintings are so different and the ideas are so far apart from each other that without an explanation it can be difficult to see how the works relate to one another. IK's work on the other hand was very cohesive. All the paintings are tied together both in subject and concept. What interested me more was his approach to a painting. He used photographs much in the same way I do, we use them as information to start a painting but we don't copy it detail for detail. He talked about how the photograph was first important for the composition of the piece and then the bare bones would be used to start the painting. I think its similar to the way I start a painting with a highly detailed sketch that I then project up onto the canvas.
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