Art Appreciation: Critiquing Your Own Paintings

Video Transcript

"Of course when you're actually looking at a picture determining if A you're done with it and B if it's any good. You probably should have this up on a wall where you can step away from it. You probably should leave sometime between the time you finish it and the time you start looking at it to ascertain if it's where you think it needs to be. So once you've taken the time away from it to just you know get away from it. And once you've gotten it gotten it pinned up on a wall where you can walk away from it and really look at it, then it's time to go to the questions that came up in looking at Leonardo or looking at Paul Clay. That is you know what is the center of interest if there is one. If there isn't one, does there need to be one? Did you somehow you know get so involved in you know the wonders of the values that you didn't end up with an emphasis? And is that running counter to what you need your picture to do? This one doesn't have a whole lot of emphasis. It does have this strong shape happening here echoed by this shape here. But this is really more about patterns created by various shapes and values. And that's OK you know. That I like the general energy that's being generated by this and that's one of the things that drives me as an artist. But you know you have to answer that question yourself. You have to answer is this the right size?"