Critical Advice!

My partners for theses critical advice activity were Sam, Rachel, and Brae. At this point, due to me painting over old projects, I could only show them the skull and tiger paintings but I shared but idea of light tranfersing through my painting to create a surprise illusion. We brainstormed on my ideas with the big red canvas as well.

-try using paper not canvas
- or try using a different type of canvas. - Hanes white t-shirt - much more translucent

-have orange canvas- only paint black in tiger face- that way I wont have to focus around details and then worrying about them not coming through with the light

-with big red canvas, hard timing because it would take longer, and you are used to small canvases.

THE CRITIQUE HANDBOOK!

I think that critique should be a large role in our class. One factor that makes senior studio what is it, is the freedom everybody has. However, from the looks of everybody's projects right now, I think they, and myself, may not have enough structure to make decisions. In this way, I think critique will be very helpful for those that need outside opinions on which path they should take.

I think that just being as honest as possible would be the most helpful and thats what I will try to do for the people I am critiquing.

ART & FEAR

"you know better than anyone else the accidental nature of much that appears in your art" - on the subject of doubting your own credentials.
I relate alot to this because I have alot of doubts of about my work mainly because my type of art, oil painting, is usually judged alot of precision and accuracy to the outside viewer. I get very self conscious of my work because unlike a sculpture or even other types of painting that is more abstract, outside viewers aren't judging their accuracy as much as a painter that is painting still life like I am. But I think its the confidence in your work that will produce a much better piece.

This next quote relates alot to the one before and the idea I was mentioning about being perfect, " Art is human; error is human, ergo, art is error. Inevitably, your work will be flawed." In my first finished painting in senior studio with the skull, I had originally wanted to paint a pattern on different pastel colors checkers. Once I was done with teh first line of orange and white, I got tired of the idea and instead of paitning over it, I found a skull in the art room and just started painting it. Now the orange plays very well with the royla blue background I think. It also has a certian Cinco de Mayo feel with the skull.

The last quote ties everything together for me I think in regards to my first two quotes. " The difference between acceptance and approval is suble, but distinct. Acceptance means having your work counted as the real thing; approval means having people like it". I think knowing the different between acceptence and approval is important because now I can feel comfortable being a little creative instead of accurate with my still life paintings.

Twyla Tharp!

I have hit a couple road blocks on the way so far. Most of them have to do with planning what I will do for my final presentation. I have been so set on the idea of light and how I can use the idea of projecting some sort of image on my canvas. However I have let that idea chain me down from other ideas I keep coming up with. I have also found with the more experiments I do with this idea, that there's a chance that I might just be wasting time.
I think this is one of Tharp's arguments about the problems an artist might hit when working and how they achieve a certain idea they may have had in the beginning of their work and also learning when to say the idea isn't working and to be flexible.

Experimenting!

Right now, I am do experiments on what types of canvas/ paper that light can transfer through best. Last week I worked on a canvas and painting various images and backgrounds with oil paint acrylic, and then i either covered that with gesso or white acrylic, and then painting over that with either oil paint or acrylic to see which samples let first image through best. So far I haven't found much luck. I think my best example would be using canvas and oil paint, then covering covering that with paper and then painting over the paper.