concentration critique!

My concentration is exploring the beauty of fish that we eat, regardless of whether or not you find them delicious or if you think they smell altogether too 'fishy'. Whether or not they are alive or dead, fish have a really natural and elegant movement to their shapes, and I'm trying to explore that idea in a painting.

This one is pretty awful I hate it a lot I did it for my french class after reading the Stranger by Camus, and it illustrated the theme I picked pretty well, but ...ugh. It's too concrete and doesn't even look that cool. lame. when i put it up with all my other pieces that i have so far, it's just kind of blah and doesn't flow as well with the others. I don't think it's really a problem with the 'elements' or 'principles' of art, it's just conceptually lame and doesn't fit.


This one I like a lot more. The colors and the whole feel is very different, so I might paint over the previous one that would show more of a "bridge" between the first few and this one. I'm planning on taking this abstract thing further and maybe pushing it more. I want the fish to feel more loose and flowy than they have been. I think the movement idea is going to become more prominent in the next paintings I do, and I think that the rhythm of the fish and their shapes contribute to that.

sigh sigh sigh cough cough cough

Being sick is so awful, yet it's so easy to complain about! For the first time ever, I missed a day of school because of being sick on Tuesday. It felt great, partly because I was actually productive, and because well, I wasn't at school.

So I recently I don't really know what I want to be drawing or painting or making...I've been half-heartedly looking at art but nothing really strikes me. Whenever I think I'll just draw what I see when i close my eyes, I just see slightly dirty things that don't translate really well onto paper. hahaha
These are a few gems that I've stumbled across..

http://plslala.com/#


http://www.thorazos.net/index.html

http://robagorni.blogspot.com/

So as of late, I think what I'm trying to be more moved by is the aesthetic quality of something, like the way it was rendered on the page, than the actual concept. I'm a bit done with really conceptual things right now, and I think I want to focus on developing my style and exploring ways of doing things in all kinds of media. I don't REALLY know what that means, but we'll see...

two

the week of being grounded produced...

and two other paintings that i haven't photographed yet.

I tried to do a painting a day and i made it until about Friday...I've realized that you can't stay in all day and paint because you need to get inspired. being grounded sucks!! i need painting ideas...