I want to thank my friends for their input on my angles piece. It is so helpful to have another pair of eyes to critique one’s piece because, as I am finding, it is all too easy to fall in love with certain parts of the piece only to then ignore parts that may need help. The part that needed help: the very bossy yellow shape right smack dab in the middle of the composition. Once it was pointed out to me, it was so obvious! So with the help of Jack (the ripper), I made some adjustments. The revision is on the left and the previous version is on the right:

I am much happier with the new version. I did mention to the instructor that when all was said and done it felt like I had a lot of saturated color and I needed to introduce some less saturated colors but because of the large shapes I was having trouble figuring out how to add in more cool colors. His suggestion was to make the background color (the violet) less saturated. I have since auditioned some very dull dark violets and I can see that this would help immensely in toning down the other colors. So, next assignment??? Why a composition with a dull background, of course! The instructor did say he could see the different values and he liked the use of overlap to create dimension. (Yea!)
Even though this piece was difficult to sew together, it still feels very simple and maybe too easy to look at. However, I really feel that I needed to see how the layers looked (albeit in a simpler format) before I could move on to a more complicated fore, middle and back ground composition.









Planes, Boats and Buses
Our long awaited trip has finally arrived! We will be leaving Saturday for the Baltics where we will visit Stockholm, Helsinki, St. Petersburg and the Hermitage, Talinn, Riga and Copenhagen. See you when I return!