Welcome to Critique Night

Imagine walking into a room and being greeted by a 3 foot tall head, like the one above. Well, if you were at tonight's critique at the Studio, that is exactly what you saw. It's the latest from Lisa, one of our regulars who enjoys using cast off plastic objects to form her works. As with most weeks, we started with a small number, but by the end of the night we had 8 artists bring work, and two regulars show up just to talk about the art. Below is a group of the rest of the early arriving work- oil paintings from Jill, a mixed media painting involving more plastic and an abstract piece from Edy, my current project, and a welded steel sculpture from Adam.

Above are two pieces from Mary- a small mandala, and a significant reworking of a piece she brought to the group a few months ago. Below were two late arrivals both linked to music- small posters for local bands, and an in progress project involving the front of a bass drum.

The good news is that everyone agreed that the new color choices I made for the latest proof of the shower print are an improvement over the version from last time. (I showed both, as a number of the people present weren't there last time.) As expected, everyone felt that the figures stood out more. The bad news is that with the figures more prominent, any potential flaws there are magnified. Some present took issues with some of the surface marks on some of the figures, seeing them as distracting. I feel that the revisions that I made with those before the last two printings are enough and the remaining marks are just part of my expressionist-derived drawing style. No agreement was reached tonight, but there's always next time.