Teens Inspired

Bride by Beth Lipman

My final drawing inspired by Bride

2 different sketches of my idea

I chose to do a drawing inspired by Bride by Beth Lipman because I think that the glass is really beautiful and I liked the way it stood as a symbol of something beautiful being broken and destroyed. I found my inspiration in the broken glass and the emptiness of the glasses. When glass cracks, it looks almost like a spider web, so that's what I decided to do. The glasses are broken and empty, yet still beautiful, so I represented the emptiness with an eye with a web, as the eye is the window to the soul and the web represents the emptiness that has taken over. The spiders spinning their webs on and around the eye add to the effect of the eye being empty and unused while adding some creepiness to finish the drawing. I tried to make the spiders look like black widows to add emphasis on the poisonous part of love and destruction.

Change Blog

One of the challenges I encountered while working on this project was trying to make it not look like a child's artwork. After I finished my first painting session, it looked very flat and bland. I liked the winter side, but I didn't like the spring side. I ended up getting feedback from other people and made changes based on that. I added more shading to the back and foreground and I added elements from each side to the other.

I found the idea for this project from the change journal entry that we did. I painted a tree with one side spring and the other side fall. I didn't like my original, so when we got the assignment to do a change project I decided on doing a sort of "remake" of my journal entry (after much indecision). I came to terms with the fact that I couldn't draw leaves and chose to do spring and winter (because it was snowing outside) instead of spring and fall. 

I'm very proud of my final project! I don't think that's its really great necessarily, but I am proud that I was able to do something that I didn't think I originally could. I'm very proud of my work on shading with paint, as that was one if the things I came into this class wanting to learn/work on. It didn't turn out exactly like I expected, as I thought I would mess it up, but I like it. There are some things that I want to change (like the clump of snow pictured) but I am too afraid of ruining the painting to fix it.