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Sunday, March 15, 2009

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Thanks for the ideas! (but) I need to do something less literal. That's been my apparent downfall for the last....forever. Pretty much I get bad critiques EVERY time and I'm sick of it. So I need to get away from painting things that are so literal.... that probably doesn't help.

OK-Christine said more direction would be good...
I want to do something that is not directly from observation or directly from a photo. I could use a photo or whatever but I want to add an abstract concept or idea or something to it so it's more "original" and not just copying....I don't really know how to explain it. I just know if I do what I have been doing I'll get another bad crit.
I just need something different
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4 comments:

  1. JanaMarch 15, 2009 at 12:10 PM

    AH! So you need to paint...the collective conscience of society as a....representation of the general feeling of helplessness...and....passion through the eyes of those who are experiencing the turmoil of....

    eh, I've got nothing.

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  2. JanaMarch 15, 2009 at 12:11 PM

    Maybe you should just listen to a song and paint how it makes you "feeeeeeel".

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  3. ChristineMarch 15, 2009 at 2:54 PM

    Lol, Jana that first comment is awesome!
    So you need something literally not literal? Like your awake and asleep ones?
    Paint, um, a train station, with the noise of the station visible in the painting. Yeah.
    Or maybe a childhood memory?
    We need some more direction here.

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  4. MoM KMarch 15, 2009 at 10:22 PM

    Paint your longing for Bryce while you were at Jen's last week.
    Paint the baby coming down from the clouds. on a slide. Paint what the others in the class paint.
    How annoying to try to figure something like this. Paint Walden Pond and Transcendentalism....Better yet,Paint what Jana suggested. she is brilliant!

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