Progess on Final Project/Visual place:
I am very happy with where this project seems to be going. I owe a lot of it to the influence from Matisse. I had never really cared for Matisse to be honest. Barbara Campbell Thomas had mentioned him and talked of him so sweetly that initially my curiosity was only slightly triggered. Late one night I was watching a documentary/interview of Lee Krasner, and she mentioned Matisse as creating "Just simply magnificent art.....That's all that I can say about Matisse, I don't even care to measure how great he influences me, all I can say is that it's just magnificent. " That did it. I had some investigating to do. After a thorough search I did find some things that interested me. I don't really care for his paintings, I find them a bit dry in color, though there are still some very good ones. What really intrigued me was his cut-outs which he did later in his life. The series "Les Velours"(English translation: The velvets) really intrigued me. The cut outs seemed to make me think of a shape you might find in a coral reef or perhaps within the structure of a flower. Ironically the night before my sleuthing I had created a shape in my drawings for the final project which almost exactly matched Matisse's cut outs. I took it as a sign of fate and continued working with it. As I said I'm pleased with where it's going. Sort of a murky lake/body of water with creatures and kelp as primary objects swimming around in it. The color now seems to stay within the green family, and I plan to keep it that way, or add neutral grays possibly. Although collage is important I want to keep working with as many different ways of drawing as possible.