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What specific creative/technical risks did you take in this group of studies?

In this group of studies I worked heavily on working through techniques that I am not comfortable with as well as a new technique of using the pallet knife actually on my painting.

What were the various subjects you explored and what remains interesting to you now?

I explored some abstract pieces that i did not particularly enjoy, but I did enjoy making pieces of faces or body parts and would like to continue with that.

Which are the most interesting/most “successful” studies to you? Give specific examples of formal elements/imagery/concepts and discuss why those are strong/engaging.

The most successful studies to me were the bananas and how I used the pallet knife to swipe the paint down as well as apply the paint. Another successful study to me was the side profile of a nose and mouth.

Which are the least interesting/least “successful” studies to you and why? How might you improve these if you were to continue working on them or to try the study again?

I did not enjoy the abstract. I don’t feel like I gave it enough energy because I did not enjoy the output of it.

Describe your studio practice during this project.

I worked in class as well as out of class later at night, I would come in and paint whatever I found interesting to me at that moment.

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this photo is a little blurry but this study was used with using the pallet knife on the canvas paper for a background potentially for a painting on top of it

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this is a still life study of light using a pallet knife and a paint brush

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this is a still life study with light

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this is a still life study with light

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this is a side profile portrait study

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this is a study of a portrait that was swiped down with wet paint

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this is a still life study with shadows

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this is a study of mixing colors for facial features

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this is a shadow study of a handle

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this is another study of a hand position

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this is a rough study of a leg position

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this is another study of a hand position

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This is another study of a hand position

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this is a semi abstract study with the side profile of a body in it

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this is a sketch painting of a hand position

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in this study i worked on glass

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this is a study that I worked with some non traditional colors and reversing shadows and light

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this study is a messy attempt at lips with a pallet knife

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in this image I tried to play with mixing colors on the paper without them getting too muddled

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this is another semi abstract piece and if you examine it closely i modeled it semi off of a childrens block toy with letters

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i tried to use some dimension along with texture in the same pallet knife, paintbrush combination ive been working on

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This is another study that I used some pallet knife and some paint brush

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in this image i experimented with texture and abstract to make something I was pleased with but also something that was out of my comfort zone

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In this study I worked with the pallet knife more to add texture while using the brush as well for flat details

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In this one I was trying to use up the last of the paint I had out and I experimented with some colors here to make a tree still using the pallet knife. I think even without using the “correct” colors this turned out okay. I think strategically using non conventional colors for items in the future could be fun.

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In this study I also used the pallet knife and I painted some bananas. I tried to work with some depth in this one I’m not sure if I accomplished it too much but I again really like the look of the paint being swiped downwards

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This was the next one of my studies I worked with the pallet knife on I liked how this looked as a sketch almost of a skull and in this piece after I added details with the knife I used it to swipe all the paint downwards which I actually really like the look of that.

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This is another of my 30 studies, while I don’t particularly love how this one looks it gave me some practicing using the pallet knife for details. In this piece I used the knife to make the “clouds”.

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This is one of my 30 studies, I like the idea of using ripped up journal pages as a background however in practice this did not work well and I learned that sketchbook paper does not work well to paint on.

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This is one of my 30 studies, in this piece I worked on adding details to the foreground, in the future I think I would work more to make sure the background is completed or im almost done adding details to it before working on main pieces.