Sunday, March 28, 2010

Miranda’s Critique on Marie’s Navajo project

Marie’s painting was a wonderful collaboration of her unique new adaptation of Anime/Manga and the Native American culture. The woman Character she depicts is half wolf and half human. I was told by Marie that the wolf is means mischief to the Native American culture. The circle around the character is almost like a dream catcher and the splatters of paint gives the impression that is has obliterated the bad dreams that it captured.
As per usual the work that Marie creates is well crafted and finally detailed. The paws on the half human-half wolf woman could use a little shading. A great way to get good value is to dry paint over the existing paint. Which will not only give the different values that is needed to give it depth but can also give you a nice texture. The signature button that Marie places on her canvas is a wonderful addition to the artworks. Instead of signing your name and placing the button on your canvas; which can visually weigh down the bottom right hand side of you canvas just place the button instead of a signature or sign the button and put in on.
I fully appreciate you Anime/Manga-Fine art creations. I think you totally have made built a bridge between the typical Anime/Manga, your style, and Fine Art. Personally I do like your unique fine art anime is fantastic. For your future painting you should try to do a full body figure, multiple characters or men characters. Maybe create a cast of characters.

2 comments:

  1. Good comments. A cast of characters sounds intriguing.

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  2. Yes, it might have thrown off my theme, I'm thinking now that maybe I should have done one big piece at the end with all of the characters...ah well. I'll probably do it on my own anyway! Thank you for the nice critique.

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