1. I feel like my intentions at the moment, and of course this will change, are to study an object and be able to portray it, to find a connection with it. In all three of my pieces I focused a lot on formal elements, using topography to convey form on the horse skull; shading to define value for my landscape, and on my most-time consuming picture - the pinecone - I feel I used many formal elements to create a realistic piece.
2. I learned that my artist voice focuses on the emotion and formal elements of the subject, but not of me as the artist. I think that when I draw the pinecone or the landscape or the skull, I try and assess the feeling the subject has or conveys - the landscape was moody, so I expressed it moodily, but I was not feeling moody that day. The use of formal elements are only tools to portray the reality of the subject. I used harsher outlines for what I thought was a menacing skull, softer shading for the fantasy-esque landscape, and a multitude of lines to convey the realism of the pinecone. I think my process is great at what it intends to do - express things for how they are. But there is a flip side, where I am sometimes just the observer taking artistic notes. I would like to experiment with taking a similar subject and make different emotional representations, and also with mediums not focused on realism, but the extremes of line and value that make them more expressive.
3. My group was very kind, giving me lots of praise similar to what I said earlier for what works well about my process. They emphasized the realism and formal elements - value, form, line, etc. They did say, which I also said earlier, that I should inject some more emotion into my pieces in the form of color and different mediums rather than pencil. I 100% agree - hopefully during the play set project I will be able to let go of detail and focus on the larger piece and be more expressive, and further refine my process.
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