Critique Feedback

Use of Color: positive feedback, good color- nuetral, nice color on the "reeds"

                         critical feedback, blended (could have used dry brush) the color on the bowl, looks like a black and white globe

Illusion of volume & depth: positive feedback, looks like individual strands in the "reeds", nice texture wrinkly looking on the bag

critical feedback, mugs look a little wide, spout is going straight up, more shadow on the paper is sticking up

Composition choices: positive feedback, nothing looks bare, good use of the foreground and background

--> paper roll jar... etc. front then back very full

critical feedback, paper looks like it is sticking out

PROGRESS: "sooooooooo much better"- Brooke

-Better coloring in the last painting.

 What the Water Gave Me by Frida Kahlo addressed the concept of a portrait because in this painting all these different objects in this picture are very different and odd describing the persons qualities. It might be that he took different parts of ideas and forms of the person and changed them all into one. He is looking at the person and interpreting what he sees and creating from that ideas and parts of the person that arent really seen when looking at them.

 Librarian by Guiseppe Archimboldo is a portrait of a man, showing his face and body as books. Which can prove that he could be a writer or even a poet. Considering that I know nothing about this artist you can just see from how he paints what he is talking about, or painting about when painting a picture of this man.

Madame X by John Singer Sargent is a picture of a women in a beautiful dress, she looks like a high class women that wants to show her "good side." This portrait is showing just a women that wants to show that she is living in a high class world and she is the best.

My White Objects Painting.

In my white objects painting, I seemed to struggle a lot with making the shades of the objects more detailed and real. I really did try to make certain objects and things stand out, but it just was not my best piece of work I have made. I think I did well on the background part and the pitcher and the bowl I think I did pretty well in. But I think I could have improved on making the paper roll and the mugs. I didn't feel that I knew how to approach these objects in the painting that thats why it didn't turn out as great as I would have wanted it to be. 

A sense of Place.

It never opened.

Where are you at?

I think that the most challenging thing for me in this course is the way you have to create shadowing and texture to the object/s that your painting.

I think when I am trying to make certain colors I know exactly what colors to mix and what amount of color that is needed to be put together to make it. Also when I look at the objects that I am painting I really know how to shape the objects to look real. 

Looking at paints show us how different people can be with there ideas of what they think art is. Some are abstract others are shapes and some are even landscapes. This is giving different variety in size color and what is on the picture.

Some Famous Paintings

The persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali was a very interesting painting because it is abstract in how the clocks are dripping and bent in such ways they wouldn't in real life. I really like how they are distorted and randomly place in different areas of the painting. I don't know what he was thinking in this painting but where it is placing in this area looking like the desert is very odd. Its not a painting that you can look at just once and be like wow. You really have to take time to look at this one because its shape and color is so eye catching.