Oh, I had such a hard time in this class. Unlike previous classes where something was already there for me to draw, I had to decide on my own what to draw for this class. The requirement was to bring references to class. Instead of deciding what to draw and then taking pictures for reference, I took pictures of something around me and then based my paintings off of that. Because of it, all my projects looked exactly like the photos I took, and I did not like them.
References are there to help artists draw what they want to draw and not there to tell them what to draw. This whole time I was being controlled by the references. That’s why all my projects looked the same as my references! Oh well. This mushroom project was the one that helped me to realize that.
