My work continues. The Pan Pastels are the slowest part of the process. This current piece is of a coffee shop on South Avenue in Rochester. It is about five minutes down the street from my school. I thought I would start with this coffee shop because one of my students comes here every Saturday to draw with her father. She is currently in third grade, and this is the first year I have not had her since I have started working. Every time I get coffee here I think of her and her father. She is an amazing artist for a third grader. I think it says a lot about practicing your art form. As I continue my work I will add a contour drawing of graffiti that is across the street from the coffee shop.
I like your choice of composition here Melissa! With that being said, I know you’ve been saying that you are pressed for time because of your art show at work….have you ever thought about changing your approach with the composition? I feel like these must take you so much time because there is so much detail, but what if you chose to focus on a small architectural characteristic of a building or something? I don’t even know if that would help time wise or not because I definitely don’t know how your process works, but in my head I feel like that might help??
Either way, I like what you’re doing. Are you going to be adding the wax to this?
I agree with Lindsay, I love the composition! I feel like its really pretty cool unfinished. There was a student in one of my painting classes that was very detailed like you but left his paintings unfinished and it was so interesting! Maybe you could explore that, too! It could be a challenge!
I agree, the empty spaces in contrast to the detail seem important and interesting