With my first piece, I am pretty happy with it. To start with the things I like: I love the composition of the dark outline with the white worked back on top of it. With the drips I think the composition is very interesting and unique, and I like how I worked in all of my colors back into the center with a wet palette knife. I also thing I made good choices with adding the paint skins. Now for the one thing I really don't like! I don't like the smooth edge on the top of the white shape, I feel like it catches my eye and makes the piece less interesting.
I feel like I had some fun with my second piece. I played a lotttt with the wet paint, texture, and scraping paint up. I wouldn't say it was a super successful piece but it has some components that I really want to carry into my next pieces. I think it's funny to look at them next to each other because one is so rough while the other is so clean For all of my pieces, I feel slightly stuck compositionally. I am so attached to this general form that I can't seem to let go of it because I feel like if I do then I will be taking steps backwards from all the progress I have made! I don't think I succeeded very well in my mission of using the negative space but I'm not sure, I just want to get more creative with my compositions. I didn't use many washes or play with paint thickness as I wanted because I got attached to focusing on the negative space goal that I was given rather than my own goal, maybe that is something I will concentrate on next time and it will make my pieces more interesting.
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I added a few different colors to the piece, which took a long time because I couldn't decide what I wanted to add. I ended up piecing together some paint skins that you can see in the bottom left and right corners. I took some of the color from my paint skins and incorporated them into the rest of my painting. I might touch it up and add some more colors to make it more interesting but we will see! I also went through and added some drips. I added white drips on top of the blue layer that you cannot really see anymore, and I added dark blue drips to break up the composition of the white shape.
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Julianne
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