Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Watercolor test, and score is fail.

I went out bought some watercolor pencils, having never used them before and amazed at the results this 8 year old art prodigy got (she is one of my son's dearest friends), and I wanted to give it a try.

This was my first try, and it does not show the time and effort I put in to layer and craft the colors. To me, it looks like I could have gotten the same end result if I just randomly splashed the brush around because that is what it looks like I did (I did not...at first).


Even my signature is ticking my off right now.



Sunday, March 4, 2012

the Mere Exposure Effect




The Mere Exposure Effect relates to the fact that the repeated exposure to a unfamiliar stimulus increases our liking to it.


I have hope that the Mere Exposure Effect will eventually wear any possible detractors to my artwork down. (Van Gogh was supposedly not hailed too highly in his time, I hear. On the other hand, I might be in for a long, long, long wait.)