grace m
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The last couple of weeks we've been making personal projects, focusing on personal and teacher-assigned goals. Mine were to mix materials more, play with color, and work on composition, and I accomplished all of those but to be honest I really hate what I made. I didn't enjoy it as much and I think I would've preferred painting normally but I mean, it was good to try. I liked playing around with the color and composition, it was fun to work with paint texture and papers and a

Over the past 2-ish weeks we've been working on abstract expressionist paintings, and I feel like it's gone pretty well overall. I like my final painting and feel like the colors I chose worked well, plus the composition isn't horrible. It was rougher at the start when I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but as we kept working I feel I worked more with the painting to make something that felt complete and finished. I do think I could improve on (a) painting on a larger

The last several weeks we have been working on painting still lives. While I feel like I've improved a lot since the last process post, I haven't quite captured the full form of some objects. However, since I'm starting color painting (hopefully) next class, I hope that the practice I've had doing to grisaille base will help when I'm working in more dimensions (hue, saturation, etc.). I'm excited and also a little nervous to start color, because I don't want to mess up my pai