-Subject: After looking back on my play pages, I noticed that my consistent subjects were plants: flowers and mushrooms, and people: the face and the eye.
-Content: There weren't any themes or ideas that jumped out at me as particularly noticeable but after thinking about it, a lot of my work was centered around nature: plants, flowers, mushrooms, fish and that a lot of my art is in a more whimsical or quaint style.
-Medium: I love working with watercolor and pen and ink but definitely want to experiment more with acrylic paint and incorporating more obscure art mediums like stitching your canvas and using gold foil etc.
-Form/Process: I love using brushes, whether that's painting or doing watercolor, and I only used a paint knife a little bit in one of my pages but I love how it turned out and really enjoyed using it. I also would like to work with more 2D mediums, for example, do a mosaic type piece. I wanted to incorporate it somehow into my contemporary sculpture but that idea never panned out.
-Enjoyment: I definitely enjoyed doing the koi, eye and mushrooms the most and I think they turned out the best:
-Critique: I think my least successful pieces were the ones that I didn't particularly like the subject of or those that I just didn't have a good idea or vision for. For example, the green and blue squares with the flowers. That one I think turned out the worst, the craftsmanship wasn't good, the subject isn't really discernable and I didn't enjoy making it and I think it shows. I also don't like the style of the style books or their color palette. I think it's because I used a reference picture and tried making them a bit more realistic but I did it really quickly and was very rushed. I haven't practiced trying to make things look very realistic which would probably explain why that style is more unrefined.
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