1. Define which techniques you tried and mastered? Struggled? 2. How did you draw inspiration from other artists techniques or aesthetics in your work? In what ways did you derive meaning or gain historical perspectives from their work? Why these artists? 3. Describe the evolution of your piece. Decisions made. Compositional elements. 4. If you could consider doing something over, explain why you would do this and what you would do next time? 5. Elaborate on how this piece links with your other pieces? What is the common thread?
1. Techniques that I had tried and mastered was the utilization of light and dark through the manipulation of chalk pastels. Throughout this exploration I was able to master pigmentation and contrast. However, it was difficult for me to utilize pastel and reaching the smaller parts within my piece. 2. I had drawn inspiration from Rob Gonsalves and his "Over the Moon" composition. Which had combined an illusion of different naturalistic aspects. Furthermore I wanted to continue my theme of whimsical discovery throughout my art. Within this piece I had wanted to keep the skeleton and boat element as a form of repetition. However, I felt that the darkness of the skeleton needed to be contrasted to a decaying sense of hope. 3. Throughout my creation process, I did not know what details that I had wanted to include in my composition. While I had a sketch of my piece I was consistently changing in order to portray the illusion aspect to this piece. 4. If I had the opportunity to do this piece again I would consider making the woman larger and utilizing a white marker or paint to highlight my skeleton more. I would do this in order to exaggerate and bring a greater attention to the woman. 5. This piece links to my theme of identity in that the message I am trying to convey is that sometimes our identity does not arise from solitude but instead it is also dependent on the people who help us. While we can grow independently we also need others to ground us, look for us, guide us, and lend a helping hand. In doing so, our identity is able to grow further.