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Monday, March 27, 2006
Better
Well, this was better. The day that is.
Finally managed again to get up at a decent time, to paint some before going to class and the mid-term critique was a real soul and spirit lifter.
I’d love to be an artist who never doubts themselves but well, I’m definitely not in that category. At times I’m perfectly fine, I know what I want to do and I have a lot of affinity to my colors and what I do with them - but that’s on the sunny days. Then again I can doubt my work, not be satisfied [what by itself is not a bad thing for an artist to push the limits, but it’s the amount of it which can become cumbersome] and then I wish in my heart that I’d be more current, because my style, I don’t know, my style just doesn’t fit the term “current” - I actually really do not know what it fits.
Getting feedback from other artist students and the professor which show that what I’m working on is “strong” - and has the potential to become even stronger by further working on it and finishing it - and the painting gets their attention and is interesting for them, this was really good to hear. The amount of positive feedback was somewhat unexpected - for example one girl said that my painting is her favorite of the bunch and another woman mentioned my painting technique she’d love to learn for incorporating into her painting techniques - that is A LOT of positive feedback. These critiques are really good, because what I had gotten to be hung-up on, they didn’t see at all and thus they all giggled when I pointed out that I’m not all about bubbles and swirls. Such a group critique is also good to help get moving again on areas where I ran my head in and I was not able to get past it. Larry - our professor - mentioned the word monochrome and that was exactly the problem. Not only did these areas look a tad boring, they are less integrated with the rest of the painting, and that is exactly the reason for it, monochromaticity. So now I again have some light as to where to work towards and hopefully I can finish this piece somewhat soon.
The other neat thing is that after days of research into how to make my own framing - that what holds the canvas, not what encompasses the painting - the solution is really easy: no need to router or to angle nor to buy expensive wood, the solution lies in quarter-rounds mounted on the 1-by-2-inch wood. These quarter-rounds will touch the canvas only in one small place and prevent other markings from the wood frame. So neat. My next canvas painting will be 5-by-5-feet. So very neat.
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