(Very) Rough Draft of Thesis Painting

Alright, so here we have our prodigal son/Icarus amalgamation crawling out of his melted wings to mourn the loss.

The color scheme will be very similar to Rembrandt's dreary tone but here, the white feathers and melted wax will stand out over his dark floor with a dim glow. The son is wearing a black business suit.

I'm going to need to find a model so the foreshortening on the son doesn't look so bizarre. I'm also 95% decided that I should include an infant crawling through the feathers.

Work in progress...

My thesis project isn't going to be made with Microsoft Paint. My digital camera was acting up, and then the batteries died. Serves it right.

Anyway, I've been thinking about what Viktor said, and scrapped a few ideas. I wish I could have seen him and the rest of the group today to get feedback, but without further delay, my work in progress...

Critique At Livingston

The group critique at the LAB allowed us to see the progress on some of the larger-scale projects that can't be moved to the CSB, as well as an update on the smaller projects that are able to be transported.

It's good to see that everyone is really putting a lot of thought into these art pieces. There are some very inspired designs that once explained, become very interesting.

Group Critique 2

I re-did my triptych idea so it would have less narrative but still express the same idea. Everyone hated it. Now I hate it. My next draft will be a one-painting affair.

Also, since I didn't put in a blog entry for last week responding to the crit the other presenters had, I'll just slip a comment in here. To the people who presented last week: You all had some inspired ideas.

Group Critique

I got to show my group and Viktor the idea I'm working on. It's a triptych of how we leave behind ideals as we go through life, and in our old age look back to see we didn't get much out of our compromised lives. It's told by paintings of one man's experience, but is hopefully flexible enough to be relatable.

Viktor decided the triptych had too much narrative, and the meaning of the piece became obvious too quickly. My peers seemed to like what I was doing. I appreciated what my group had to say as well as Viktor's feedback. If I had to choose between the two, I'd rather have my piece seem too obvious than seem like an unintelligible mess (which I feel like I could make too easily). I'll try different changes and see if I like one.