Finally my final project

This is it, last Friday was the last day of school and my last presentation. I was supposed to be in the first group, but because of traffic I was late and ended up in the second group.

As I walked in the class room the first group had finished hanging their work and I was impressed by the quality of the work I saw. This year this class had a lot of talented and promising artists, most of them showed great commitment to their art and it was really refreshing to see.
Then came my turn, I was a bit timid about showing my work, I did not think this was my best work and choosing the Iris theme as a short cut for me eventhought I had never done flowers. I was uncertain on how the critique was going to go, and got better feedback than I expected.
The first minute everyone was quiet, like no one really knew what to say, then someone spoke and expressed her feelings toward the work. Then the rest jumped in and they played around with the presentation by moving the pieces around and although the bigger pieces lacked in composition they still got good comments, and we all decided that the darker iris actually made more sense upside down. They felt that the lighter one was looser and the colours softer, more intuitive compare the cripness of the other, and they were right

The darker iris's were more controled I was feeling my way with the subject, trying to get the shapes believable and the colours to match reality. I believe I was stressing too much and overworked that first piece.

I attacked the second one from a different angle, I wanted to go looser, more abstract, half way through I realize I was repeating the pattern of the firt piece and tightning my brush strokes. I manage to back away again and stop myself to make it crisper.


I enjoyed making the egg tempera more so than the bigger pieces, I felt they were more in tuned with my inner self; they also got better reviews, the concensus was that they were more myterious and borderline abstract with a better composition. They also liked the touch of red in all of them.




Finally, I felt relieved from the week of stress leading to that day. I also felt sadness in this being the last class of the year. I don't know exactly what I will be taking next semester, I signed up for several classes and will decide then which I will keep. I really would like to attend full time and I will figure out a way to make it happen, otherwise I will continue on a part time basis.



From now until next September, I will concentrate my spare time in applying everything I have learned this year and show you my progress with my on going projects.

There are many things I would like to explore, collages being one of the things I want to push further, along with egg tempera as well. I also want to explore the different ways I can actually engage in creating art pieces that will push the viewer to ask questions or get involve in various causes.

I thank everyone that has taken the time to read my blog and I hope you will keep on doing so. Don't forget that your comments are welcome.