I really like your pleasure/pain assignment, the tree with the song lyric! The shape of the tree is really interesting and creative as well as the detail of the leaves, the bark and the vines hanging off. The composition covers the page well and creates interests, drawing the eye either from the top left or the bottom right. It reminds me a little bit of eastern landscape or tree paintings. I also like the unconventional matting, although I think it might be even better if there was perhaps a black frame around the picture itself, maybe behind the brown mat, just to make it stand out from the wall more and look more professional. Your style is very flowy and soft. You used the materials all very well and in different and creative ways. I really like your use of line. You use a lot of curving, flowing lines as well as nice hard lines, like in the cabinets. I like the perspective on your still life, but I think you could develop it further. I suggest really using the full range of darknesses of pencils. I really like the texture on the bone and I think it would pop if you added more shading and varied the focus. Really nice presentation overall! All of your matting is nice, professional and also very creative. I really like the shapes of the matts and the image of the dandelion blowing in the wind. Also, all your pieces are nicely put together in an interesting arrangement that displays your work well. Thumbs up!
I really like the movement in your pieces. Your portfolio is full of movement, it makes my eye dance around from picture to picture. I have to say that my favorite piece of the entire portfolio is the flower with pollen? flying out to the side and up. I love how the paper is torn and how the black and brown paper was used to frame it. It is truly remarkable. I also love the hand that is touching the branches. I am not sure if the finger is just touching them or if they’re growing from the finger. I love all the variety you have in your portfolio; all of your pieces are different in style. I think your work could benefit from loosing your hand a bit, your lines and curves seem very contrived in most of your pieces. I think if you relaxed your hand a bit more and let the curves happen more naturally, it would improve some of the art. I really enjoy most of your pieces, but I think your still life could have been cropped a bit more on the left-hand side and it would have improved the work. That said, I really liked your portfolio... I loved most of your art and would gladly hang it up on my wall anyday! -Valeria
Great work. The presentation of your work is fluid. Is like a spiral that increases on darkness. The Dandelion is the first drawing that caught my attention. The drawing is well done but the presentation stands out further. Good use of materials. The use of ink on the large face portrait. is interesting and composition is good. Balances the darkness. The hand drawing with the flowers spreading out is imaginative. The details on the flowers are a good touch. I noticed you worked on the door frame image. darkened and sharpened the lines. A great improvement. it is well defined and has a level of depth that was missing before. I think you could make this change to your still life. another possible change you could make is not the frame of your tree. Having it segmented is a good play on the image. because of the darkness I feel it would look more dramatical with a color frame. good job!
I really like the strong use of line in your drawings. It gives the work a little bit of a graphic quality. I also enjoy the way you presented the dandelion with the seeds blowing away out of the frame. Very cool. The one drawing that stands out most to me though is the face done in ink. It is so different from the rest and so eerie. I really enjoy how bizarre it is. One thing I would say you could improve on is in your pencil drawings you could go darker. The drawings could really benefit from the larger range of values that your work has when you use different materials.
I really like the line work in your library perspectives piece. Also, your work with the ink trees are great as well! I really enjoy your experimentation with the ink in producing varying textures. The playful abstraction of your subjects also makes your portfolio even more interesting. I don't know if this is intentional or not, but I find that you tend to choose the bottom right corner of your pieces to be the anchor of your subjects. For example, the charcoal branch, both of the ink trees take root from the bottom right hand corner. There's definitely nothing wrong with repetition, but it is also beneficial to be cognizant of your tendencies so as to find new directions for exploration and experimentation. Maybe try playing with the different ways of conveying the focal point of your drawings. As a last critique, with your pencil drawings, I think it would help if your varied the softness of pencil you use so as to get darker shades. I think this will really make your forms have deeper dimension and accentuate your attention to detail.
Kelsey, I love your variety of trees and vines. They are fun and creative. You take a regular organic object and with just a few changes to the lines and medium, you've made a truly beautiful piece that speaks. Some of the work seems a little flat. It could benefit from more depth. Also, I would like to see you explore your own personal style more. Your work can feel ambiguous at times, and I think it would be really cool if you could harness some of the unique techniques that I see in the whimsical tree on the slope and the lightness of a few other pieces. It seems slightly fantastical and that could be a lot of fun to play off of. Also, it may help to be a bit looser with your work- not feeling so constrained and just let your hand do the drawing rather than your thought process so much. Overall, I really like your work. Nice job:)
I am going to begin with my favorite piece, the face! I love this piece it is the strongest of your images for many many reasons. To start, it has powerful emotion that floods the viewer. The sheer size of the piece allows the viewer to almost be overwhelmed and maybe fearful due to the morphing of the face. This is another aspect that is very strong in the image, your decision to morph the face from that of an general facial image and to create it from the perspective of someone looking up is perfect. This perspective allows a softness to creep in as if the face is scared and/or uncomfortable.
I believe the medium was ink which furthers my admiration for it because i struggle with ink and here you expressed much control over it. My main desire for this piece is to see it presented in a different manner on a different background. I thinks darker matte would greatly add to the effect.
WIth that said, I really enjoy your ability to work both in a bold in-your-face manner and in a delicate soft manner. Your image of the cabinets are a good expression of your ability to work light and in a different medium.
One piece that I also enjoyed was that of the tree that had four different components. What I really liked about this piece was that is had four different pieces. However, I feel that the tree itself could use a little more detail and depth, you have utilized contrast in the face image, detail in the cabinet image and composition in the tree image, now if only they were all combined I would be extremely satisfied.
Overal I love viewing your work, good job this term.
Kelsey, I really like your portfolio and think its very well done and professionally presented. I LOVE your drawing of the tree that is divided into four parts. I think the way you formatted that is so unique and creative and it adds alot to the work. The composition of your work is very well done. Also, I like how the picture of the dark face draws attention to your portfolio acting as its focal point. I also think you did a good job of making your portfolio versatile by drawing different subjects and styling each one differently. Maybe you could work on being a little bit more free with your work and not drawing so exact. Maybe to strengthen your portfolio you could add more abstract drawings in that have no structure and are just free. In some of your drawings maybe you could use slightly darker lines to add depth and dimension. Overall, GREAT portfolio! :) good work
Kelsey, I really admire your work for the creativity that it conveys. The pieces are very imaginative and fun, and there's so much life and movement in your work. It's like it all belongs to another world. I really like your tree with the song lyrics, I think it's my favorite pieces, because the composition is so good and the shading is really smooth and fluid. I also really like the shape and look of the tree as a whole. I like your use of ink a lot, but I think that you could get an even better effect from the ink if you focused on the thickness of the lines and the tonal qualities of the pieces. It would add more depth and dimension to the ink works. Also with your pencil drawings maybe focusing on the values more. Very cool pieces though, I really like them! -Joanna Dahl
I really enjoy how you accentuate most of your drawings. One of my favorite drawings is the one of the leaf faded over a thin branch, or something. Sort of a critique I have is that maybe you could make it more evident that the lines in the background are branches, if they are indeed branches. But if it is a branch then I think the idea of having the leaf faded over the branch is a really cool concept. The leaf also seems abnormal from an ordinary leaf, because of the curling on each end of it. I think that the drawing of the hand shows your skill with using more detail in your drawings. I like how the hand looks very realistic, but it looks mystical because of the vines, or whatever they are, coming out if the index finger. The dots in the background add an extra magical element to the vines. It also looks like the fingertip is having an explosion of some sort while meeting the vines. One critique I have is that I think that the dots could look cool if they were shadows of the vines in the background. Nicky
Kelsey I really enjoy allot of your work. I think that the kitchen cabinets you do are great. Your proportions are spot on. Your lines are neat. Your idea is cool and original. Also really enjoy your ink tree. I like that there is no background, also the texture you give it in the leaves bark and vines. I also like your presentation. All your pieces are well matted and many creatively matted, for example the dandelion. I like the use of the three different papers together it makes for a cool energy. I also really like the way you use a strong line in all your pictures it makes everything look very neat, organized and gives your work a cool flow. I think the dark flowing line is really the base of your own style and it shows in a lot of your pieces. I can really tell from your work you like to draw trees and plants allot of your pieces revolve around that feel. I think you should try and take that dark fluid line and expand on more subject matter. Overall great job!
I really enjoy the exploration of many different subjects and styles you presented as your final portfolio. Every piece is so perfectly stylized to fit in to a category of art. Not to mention your overall use of the different media we explored with ink, charcoal, and pencil. You show a strong sense of being very versatile and truly depicting your vision in a strong manner. I am absolutely amazed at by the quad piece of the tree and the very strong black as the subject then then background getting darker the further out you go from the subject. That and your perspective drawing has this defining and yet empty quality that drives me to go there and see what else surrounds the setting (the one of the door with the light and the door exiting out the back). Your use of ink is very praise worthy in the piece with the girls hair transforming in to a very plant like object. I also enjoy the strong use of black and shading in the face that is very expressive with the use of how a shadow hits ones face when lighting from underneath. Your ability to explore and perfect the different situations, subjects, and perception is very strong in style. I have said this to a few other people but I really wish you had shown more or you figure drawings after seeing your ability to blend different subjects together in a seamless manner. In the perspective of the bone and the wine bottle in the background I feel that by simply making the wine bottle a little more prevalent but blurred as well will really help show the bone being a much closer object. I love the flow and feeling of movement but I feel like you can also just make something stand still and yet just as intricate. Or in other words try to explore using your ability of flow to make a detailed object stand still but give it the true flow that exists within standing still.
I really like all of your different styles you use throughout your portfolio. Your use of different mediums and the quality of work that comes from them are awesome. You really seem to branch out throughout the term and experiment with different ideas and subjects in your drawings. My favorite of your pieces is the tree with the lyrics underneath it. The detail in the tree itself is a lot and I really enjoy it. The only thing I could add to the picture is a ground or something in the background because there seems to be a lot of white in it. That seems to happen in a good amount of your pictures, there is a lot of white in it, but it works for a few of them. I also really like the picture of the plant that uses four different pieces of paper. That is a great piece and is very unique. On a couple of your pencil drawings, they could have benefited from darker lines throughout because of how lightly drawn they were, and they could have used a little bit of shading, but other than that your work is very well done. I really enjoyed looking at all of your pieces this term. Good job.
Your portfolio is really good. I’m really inspired by your work. You have such variety in style and technique, you experiment well and are successful across the board. You have abstract pieces and still life, and seem comfortable with most materials. I love the variety in framing that you present and your experimentation with presentation. You have a good balance between light and dark. You don’t seem to stick to one tendency, which allows you to create a broad spectrum of pieces. You work well with curvy lines and details. I think you ink pieces are my favorite. The small dots are so detailed and create a shadow that creates a light darkness. Your quadrant piece stands out to me, no one else in the class presented something like that, however I wish that the background shading flowed/matched better. The tree and framing work well but the very dark bottom corner, which switches to grey and then a darker grey at the top right is very choppy. The grouping of five ink pieces work very well together and could be part of a similar collection. I would like to see you play with perspective, like the ink portrait. It is so different from the rest of your pieces. I think that the flow ink is easy and comfortable for you so I suggest you play with what isn’t and see where that takes you.
You are really good at drawing trees, but the picture I like the best is probably the hand with the vine looking things coming out of the finger. That looks really cool! The more I look at it, you kind of used the vine or wavy designs in a few of your pictures but they are a little different then the other ones. They all look really cool, like the persons face or head with the wavy lines in the back and the picture of the shadowy figure with the hair that looks like a plant. You four pictures that make the branch is awesome and I think that is most peoples favorites but my favorite is the tree to the right of that because It looks so real. It looks like one of those trees that has the long vines coming down from the branches like hair. I really like the dandelion and how you matted it. I like how you used to brown and black matte with eh dust or whatever it is drifting away.
What I think you can work on is maybe put some more shading or something else in the background in some of you pictures. I think you used a lot of just plain white in the background and with more shades it would look even better than it does now. Other than that, you did a great job! -Colby
The first thing i notice besides the striking contrast and interest that almost pulsates out from the face (love how the piece demands attention from anyone in the room with its awesome presence)is the pattern of trees. I notice that you have a few different trees and all of them are so diverse and intriguing in their own way. From the way the thick tree looms over the lyrics (i think they are lyrics at least) to the light lines and dots on the thin tree. Then there is the dark charcoal tree with its long branches. Throughout the other pieces i see a lot of other really nice flowing lines and patterns which i find very interesting and aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
Everything is very well presented and i like your matting especially for the small plant. Maybe adding more contrast and shading to some of the other pieces could make them more dramatic. Overall really great work!
I really enjoy the feel of your pieces. I love the playful and flowing style you have it looks beautiful! I think you use the space of each frame very well which creates a great balance. I really like how you abstracted each piece even just slightly to make it fun and fresh. I also love how you played with the framing of each piece. It is obvious you well thought out every piece and made the framing match the content wonderfully. It is obvious you can draw both accurately and abstractly and by combining the two you create wonderful work. A suggestion I have for you would be for the interior piece, I would like to have seen more shading in this piece and more darks. With the still life image as well I would like to have seen more variation in darks and lights. Overall you have some of my favorite pieces, my eyes were always drawn to you work because of your flowing style. One of my favorite is of the face with the bold darkness next the light, it’s very mysterious to me. I also really like the image of the tree you broke up into four pieces. All of your pieces are so thoughtful and it paid off because they are all so beautiful.
I really like your pleasure/pain assignment, the tree with the song lyric! The shape of the tree is really interesting and creative as well as the detail of the leaves, the bark and the vines hanging off. The composition covers the page well and creates interests, drawing the eye either from the top left or the bottom right. It reminds me a little bit of eastern landscape or tree paintings. I also like the unconventional matting, although I think it might be even better if there was perhaps a black frame around the picture itself, maybe behind the brown mat, just to make it stand out from the wall more and look more professional.
ReplyDeleteYour style is very flowy and soft. You used the materials all very well and in different and creative ways. I really like your use of line. You use a lot of curving, flowing lines as well as nice hard lines, like in the cabinets.
I like the perspective on your still life, but I think you could develop it further. I suggest really using the full range of darknesses of pencils. I really like the texture on the bone and I think it would pop if you added more shading and varied the focus.
Really nice presentation overall! All of your matting is nice, professional and also very creative. I really like the shapes of the matts and the image of the dandelion blowing in the wind. Also, all your pieces are nicely put together in an interesting arrangement that displays your work well. Thumbs up!
I really like the movement in your pieces. Your portfolio is full of movement, it makes my eye dance around from picture to picture. I have to say that my favorite piece of the entire portfolio is the flower with pollen? flying out to the side and up. I love how the paper is torn and how the black and brown paper was used to frame it. It is truly remarkable. I also love the hand that is touching the branches. I am not sure if the finger is just touching them or if they’re growing from the finger. I love all the variety you have in your portfolio; all of your pieces are different in style. I think your work could benefit from loosing your hand a bit, your lines and curves seem very contrived in most of your pieces. I think if you relaxed your hand a bit more and let the curves happen more naturally, it would improve some of the art. I really enjoy most of your pieces, but I think your still life could have been cropped a bit more on the left-hand side and it would have improved the work. That said, I really liked your portfolio... I loved most of your art and would gladly hang it up on my wall anyday!
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Great work. The presentation of your work is fluid. Is like a spiral that increases on darkness. The Dandelion is the first drawing that caught my attention. The drawing is well done but the presentation stands out further. Good use of materials.
ReplyDeleteThe use of ink on the large face portrait. is interesting and composition is good. Balances the darkness.
The hand drawing with the flowers spreading out is imaginative. The details on the flowers are a good touch.
I noticed you worked on the door frame image. darkened and sharpened the lines. A great improvement. it is well defined and has a level of depth that was missing before. I think you could make this change to your still life. another possible change you could make is not the frame of your tree. Having it segmented is a good play on the image. because of the darkness I feel it would look more dramatical with a color frame.
good job!
I really like the strong use of line in your drawings. It gives the work a little bit of a graphic quality. I also enjoy the way you presented the dandelion with the seeds blowing away out of the frame. Very cool. The one drawing that stands out most to me though is the face done in ink. It is so different from the rest and so eerie. I really enjoy how bizarre it is. One thing I would say you could improve on is in your pencil drawings you could go darker. The drawings could really benefit from the larger range of values that your work has when you use different materials.
ReplyDeleteI really like the line work in your library perspectives piece. Also, your work with the ink trees are great as well! I really enjoy your experimentation with the ink in producing varying textures. The playful abstraction of your subjects also makes your portfolio even more interesting. I don't know if this is intentional or not, but I find that you tend to choose the bottom right corner of your pieces to be the anchor of your subjects. For example, the charcoal branch, both of the ink trees take root from the bottom right hand corner. There's definitely nothing wrong with repetition, but it is also beneficial to be cognizant of your tendencies so as to find new directions for exploration and experimentation. Maybe try playing with the different ways of conveying the focal point of your drawings. As a last critique, with your pencil drawings, I think it would help if your varied the softness of pencil you use so as to get darker shades. I think this will really make your forms have deeper dimension and accentuate your attention to detail.
ReplyDeleteKelsey,
ReplyDeleteI love your variety of trees and vines. They are fun and creative. You take a regular organic object and with just a few changes to the lines and medium, you've made a truly beautiful piece that speaks. Some of the work seems a little flat. It could benefit from more depth. Also, I would like to see you explore your own personal style more. Your work can feel ambiguous at times, and I think it would be really cool if you could harness some of the unique techniques that I see in the whimsical tree on the slope and the lightness of a few other pieces. It seems slightly fantastical and that could be a lot of fun to play off of. Also, it may help to be a bit looser with your work- not feeling so constrained and just let your hand do the drawing rather than your thought process so much. Overall, I really like your work. Nice job:)
-Becca
Kelsey M.M.,
ReplyDeleteI am going to begin with my favorite piece, the face! I love this piece it is the strongest of your images for many many reasons. To start, it has powerful emotion that floods the viewer. The sheer size of the piece allows the viewer to almost be overwhelmed and maybe fearful due to the morphing of the face. This is another aspect that is very strong in the image, your decision to morph the face from that of an general facial image and to create it from the perspective of someone looking up is perfect. This perspective allows a softness to creep in as if the face is scared and/or uncomfortable.
I believe the medium was ink which furthers my admiration for it because i struggle with ink and here you expressed much control over it. My main desire for this piece is to see it presented in a different manner on a different background. I thinks darker matte would greatly add to the effect.
WIth that said, I really enjoy your ability to work both in a bold in-your-face manner and in a delicate soft manner. Your image of the cabinets are a good expression of your ability to work light and in a different medium.
One piece that I also enjoyed was that of the tree that had four different components. What I really liked about this piece was that is had four different pieces. However, I feel that the tree itself could use a little more detail and depth, you have utilized contrast in the face image, detail in the cabinet image and composition in the tree image, now if only they were all combined I would be extremely satisfied.
Overal I love viewing your work, good job this term.
jasmine
Kelsey,
ReplyDeleteI really like your portfolio and think its very well done and professionally presented. I LOVE your drawing of the tree that is divided into four parts. I think the way you formatted that is so unique and creative and it adds alot to the work. The composition of your work is very well done. Also, I like how the picture of the dark face draws attention to your portfolio acting as its focal point. I also think you did a good job of making your portfolio versatile by drawing different subjects and styling each one differently.
Maybe you could work on being a little bit more free with your work and not drawing so exact. Maybe to strengthen your portfolio you could add more abstract drawings in that have no structure and are just free. In some of your drawings maybe you could use slightly darker lines to add depth and dimension. Overall, GREAT portfolio! :) good work
-Ashley
Kelsey,
ReplyDeleteI really admire your work for the creativity that it conveys. The pieces are very imaginative and fun, and there's so much life and movement in your work. It's like it all belongs to another world. I really like your tree with the song lyrics, I think it's my favorite pieces, because the composition is so good and the shading is really smooth and fluid. I also really like the shape and look of the tree as a whole. I like your use of ink a lot, but I think that you could get an even better effect from the ink if you focused on the thickness of the lines and the tonal qualities of the pieces. It would add more depth and dimension to the ink works. Also with your pencil drawings maybe focusing on the values more. Very cool pieces though, I really like them!
-Joanna Dahl
I really enjoy how you accentuate most of your drawings. One of my favorite drawings is the one of the leaf faded over a thin branch, or something. Sort of a critique I have is that maybe you could make it more evident that the lines in the background are branches, if they are indeed branches. But if it is a branch then I think the idea of having the leaf faded over the branch is a really cool concept. The leaf also seems abnormal from an ordinary leaf, because of the curling on each end of it. I think that the drawing of the hand shows your skill with using more detail in your drawings. I like how the hand looks very realistic, but it looks mystical because of the vines, or whatever they are, coming out if the index finger. The dots in the background add an extra magical element to the vines. It also looks like the fingertip is having an explosion of some sort while meeting the vines. One critique I have is that I think that the dots could look cool if they were shadows of the vines in the background.
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Kelsey
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy allot of your work. I think that the kitchen cabinets you do are great. Your proportions are spot on. Your lines are neat. Your idea is cool and original. Also really enjoy your ink tree. I like that there is no background, also the texture you give it in the leaves bark and vines. I also like your presentation. All your pieces are well matted and many creatively matted, for example the dandelion. I like the use of the three different papers together it makes for a cool energy. I also really like the way you use a strong line in all your pictures it makes everything look very neat, organized and gives your work a cool flow. I think the dark flowing line is really the base of your own style and it shows in a lot of your pieces. I can really tell from your work you like to draw trees and plants allot of your pieces revolve around that feel. I think you should try and take that dark fluid line and expand on more subject matter. Overall great job!
I really enjoy the exploration of many different subjects and styles you presented as your final portfolio. Every piece is so perfectly stylized to fit in to a category of art. Not to mention your overall use of the different media we explored with ink, charcoal, and pencil. You show a strong sense of being very versatile and truly depicting your vision in a strong manner. I am absolutely amazed at by the quad piece of the tree and the very strong black as the subject then then background getting darker the further out you go from the subject. That and your perspective drawing has this defining and yet empty quality that drives me to go there and see what else surrounds the setting (the one of the door with the light and the door exiting out the back). Your use of ink is very praise worthy in the piece with the girls hair transforming in to a very plant like object. I also enjoy the strong use of black and shading in the face that is very expressive with the use of how a shadow hits ones face when lighting from underneath. Your ability to explore and perfect the different situations, subjects, and perception is very strong in style.
ReplyDeleteI have said this to a few other people but I really wish you had shown more or you figure drawings after seeing your ability to blend different subjects together in a seamless manner. In the perspective of the bone and the wine bottle in the background I feel that by simply making the wine bottle a little more prevalent but blurred as well will really help show the bone being a much closer object. I love the flow and feeling of movement but I feel like you can also just make something stand still and yet just as intricate. Or in other words try to explore using your ability of flow to make a detailed object stand still but give it the true flow that exists within standing still.
I really like all of your different styles you use throughout your portfolio. Your use of different mediums and the quality of work that comes from them are awesome. You really seem to branch out throughout the term and experiment with different ideas and subjects in your drawings. My favorite of your pieces is the tree with the lyrics underneath it. The detail in the tree itself is a lot and I really enjoy it. The only thing I could add to the picture is a ground or something in the background because there seems to be a lot of white in it. That seems to happen in a good amount of your pictures, there is a lot of white in it, but it works for a few of them. I also really like the picture of the plant that uses four different pieces of paper. That is a great piece and is very unique.
ReplyDeleteOn a couple of your pencil drawings, they could have benefited from darker lines throughout because of how lightly drawn they were, and they could have used a little bit of shading, but other than that your work is very well done. I really enjoyed looking at all of your pieces this term. Good job.
Your portfolio is really good. I’m really inspired by your work. You have such variety in style and technique, you experiment well and are successful across the board. You have abstract pieces and still life, and seem comfortable with most materials. I love the variety in framing that you present and your experimentation with presentation. You have a good balance between light and dark. You don’t seem to stick to one tendency, which allows you to create a broad spectrum of pieces. You work well with curvy lines and details. I think you ink pieces are my favorite. The small dots are so detailed and create a shadow that creates a light darkness. Your quadrant piece stands out to me, no one else in the class presented something like that, however I wish that the background shading flowed/matched better. The tree and framing work well but the very dark bottom corner, which switches to grey and then a darker grey at the top right is very choppy. The grouping of five ink pieces work very well together and could be part of a similar collection. I would like to see you play with perspective, like the ink portrait. It is so different from the rest of your pieces. I think that the flow ink is easy and comfortable for you so I suggest you play with what isn’t and see where that takes you.
ReplyDeleteYou are really good at drawing trees, but the picture I like the best is probably the hand with the vine looking things coming out of the finger. That looks really cool! The more I look at it, you kind of used the vine or wavy designs in a few of your pictures but they are a little different then the other ones. They all look really cool, like the persons face or head with the wavy lines in the back and the picture of the shadowy figure with the hair that looks like a plant. You four pictures that make the branch is awesome and I think that is most peoples favorites but my favorite is the tree to the right of that because It looks so real. It looks like one of those trees that has the long vines coming down from the branches like hair. I really like the dandelion and how you matted it. I like how you used to brown and black matte with eh dust or whatever it is drifting away.
ReplyDeleteWhat I think you can work on is maybe put some more shading or something else in the background in some of you pictures. I think you used a lot of just plain white in the background and with more shades it would look even better than it does now. Other than that, you did a great job!
-Colby
The first thing i notice besides the striking contrast and interest that almost pulsates out from the face (love how the piece demands attention from anyone in the room with its awesome presence)is the pattern of trees. I notice that you have a few different trees and all of them are so diverse and intriguing in their own way. From the way the thick tree looms over the lyrics (i think they are lyrics at least) to the light lines and dots on the thin tree. Then there is the dark charcoal tree with its long branches. Throughout the other pieces i see a lot of other really nice flowing lines and patterns which i find very interesting and aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
ReplyDeleteEverything is very well presented and i like your matting especially for the small plant. Maybe adding more contrast and shading to some of the other pieces could make them more dramatic. Overall really great work!
I really enjoy the feel of your pieces. I love the playful and flowing style you have it looks beautiful! I think you use the space of each frame very well which creates a great balance. I really like how you abstracted each piece even just slightly to make it fun and fresh. I also love how you played with the framing of each piece. It is obvious you well thought out every piece and made the framing match the content wonderfully. It is obvious you can draw both accurately and abstractly and by combining the two you create wonderful work. A suggestion I have for you would be for the interior piece, I would like to have seen more shading in this piece and more darks. With the still life image as well I would like to have seen more variation in darks and lights. Overall you have some of my favorite pieces, my eyes were always drawn to you work because of your flowing style. One of my favorite is of the face with the bold darkness next the light, it’s very mysterious to me. I also really like the image of the tree you broke up into four pieces. All of your pieces are so thoughtful and it paid off because they are all so beautiful.
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