Well, we finished the mixed media art course this evening (next comes a module on creative drawing). Our art teacher, Gina, talked to us about our work and suggested the piece she’d like us to enter into the student gallery. This is the piece of mine that she suggested - my collage and acrylics piece depicting a scene from Tasmania - the Tarkine wilderness:
I am really interested in how this course has sharpened the way I view the world around me. I actually see what is there now rather than filtering it out or seeing what I think is there. I look at shadows differently, and I look at negative spaces - something I only ever usually did when looking at optical illusions. When I look at something I notice the colours, the textures, and I think about what sort of paper, what sort of techniques, and what media etc that I could use to interpret what I see. I’m also constantly surprised at how just knowing a few techniques widens the interpretative possibilities, and makes us produce really interesting pieces. Only one person in our class was actually doing art on a regular basis before we started, yet by the end we all managed to find something we thought would be worth displaying to others.