Aftermath - Assignment 1

After showing the work piece to the class I had the following comments:

It looked like a Chinese painting.
I sold it well.

Other than that well, perhaps it was because I was the last to go up so comments were probably reserved. Either that or my presentation of it stoned the entire class.

Personally speaking, I have a strong liking for zen-like pictures especially the Film strip treble cleft and the desert rose paintings, something about the contrast of strong colour on a white background that just draws me to the picture and makes me look.

I would say that my picture has a certain vibrancy to it, though not as contrasting as the two that I mentioned above, I adjusted the brightness and contrast a little to get the background clean, but the colours on the flowers were just natural, which is something I didnt really expect with the decomposition.

As for the meaning, it is more of a private memory here because it involves my family and some of the things that have been happening over the last few weeks. So I am sorry that I can't quite share it...

As for the alternative interpretation it represents sort of a life cycle. with the orange petal (actually from another flower - I think.) being something that represents new life.

Overall I would give my pic a B+ I guess something around 80/100

I would rate Pauls work as 90/100
I would rate Mikes rose as 88/100