here is the painting I've been working on for my ambiguous painting class. . . not done yet and theres a few things I can see that need fixing. but it could be worse =P. [advice maybe?] My teacher has not given me any constructive criticism for advice for the piece yet. When I asked for it he proceeded to interrogate me on why i chose to paint on wooden floor boards and what it means. . . way over my head lol.
i just think it looks cool. Its already a darker color which is better for me to paint on than white and it is really slick which is also fun.
One time I was working outside of class, it was probably around 9 or 10 at night and I had left the room. when i came back he was checking out my painting. I thought he would say something. instead he just walked away. strange?
Oh man! and this one girl in my painting class told me that she didn't like the figure on the left and that she thought it was "too creepy". I proceeded to laugh to myself at her comment for a minute and then decide that it was good she didn't like it. I'm glad its creepy, i think its supposed to be.
This same girl was painting in the group studio space the same time i was once. . . she had her headphones turned up really loud and was singing in some other language . . . really really poorly. it was really awful and loud. I had forgotten my headphones so I contemplated leaving but i stuck it out and luckily she left shortly after.
oh man. . . funny stuff.
heres my janky group studio space setup. for all the underclassmen... fun stuff. lol
heres my first drawing from my figure drawing class. again, not great but not awful either. That time I managed to get some criticism out of my teacher at the end of class, yay. It was good advice too, he told me i needed to step back from my drawing more often and that my values needed to relate to each other more appropriately. all very true.
One of the weirdest things I've had to adjust to is the different lighting for life drawing. All the light is natural from a skylight instead of the lights at second street. I think maybe its harder this way or I'm just not used to it.
oh man. . . guess who went to art academy of San Francisco as an illustration major. . .
sylvia ji.
just shoot me now. lol
2 comments:
Hi Faith - Let's see now - you said "here is the painting I've been working on for my ambiguous painting class..." So do you mean the painting class is ambiguous or the painting you are doing for the class is ambiguous, or both? :) I like it - I don't find the guy creepy -I find him intriguing, and the whole painting is intriguing. (Am I spelling that right?) However, I do understand your teacher questioning the floorboards - not because of the surface but becasue of the effect of it. I find the horizontal lines, and the one vertical one, unrelated to the figures (or the story I made up in my head for the figures) - they are distracting to me and I can't make them fit or find a "reason" for them. If you had painted it so they were vertical, it would have read as implied prison bars or a barrier of some sort - maybe. It may just be the way the photo looks online too. I like the idea of using what you have and trying new things but my guess is that your teacher may be wanting you to think about how the surface works with, for, or againsts the subject or image. That's my guess anyway and there's my 2 cents. Love seeing your work, and hearing about your life.
Nathalie
thanks Nathalie, your the best! looking back I completely agree. I hadn't really considered the surface as part of the subject matter. In the future I will, thats neat. at least it was a good learning experience. =)
by the way, I love the portrait (your icon image)
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