Caravaggios David with the Head of Goliath - Reproduction
This is my final painting for Painting I class at Ashford (my last studio class at AU). We had critiques earlier today, and the prof was gushing about it! She was generally complimentary before the weekend, when it was still monochromatic, but she said when she came in Sunday to have a look around at the studio, the color “took her breath away”. She said that while the proportions aren’t perfect and the expressions are changed (among other things to simplify it), she really felt that I captured the essence of the painting. The graduating visual arts senior was grilling me on color. I couldn’t really explain a lot of it, I just paint and try not to think about it too much or else it’ll end up sucking. I basically only had the dark brown, a lightish brown, an orange, and the lightish skin tone on my palette (plus the grey-white later on).
After everyone had their say on the piece, the art prof asked what I was going to do with it. I had no freaking clue and said as much, to which she suggested “are you going to frame it or maybe give it to your art teacher…” I lamely responded that we could talk–I ended up giving it to her.