Post #226991 by Bay Park Buzzy on Sun, Apr 16, 2006 5:17 PM

I was over at my parents house for Easter and I ran across this painting that I did a few years ago. I completely forgot about it. It was for an assignment in a beginning painting class at SDSU. If I properly recall, this would be my first oil painting. I wasn't even aware of tiki and oceanic art at the time. The instructor told us she wanted to observe our technique and pointed to a pile of National Geographics and said that we had to pick our source from them. After she shot down my first 5-6 proposals, she "let" me do this one. The original picture had a row of statues in it and I really wanted to do all of them in a descending perspective, but she told me to just concentrate on one figure and keep the composition simple. I learned in college art classes that if you do your work exactly like the teacher suggests, you will be rewarded with an "A". This was back when I thought a high GPA might help me later on at some point in life. So far it hasn't. Why do they place so much emphasis on it then?
This painting was done with oil on stretched canvas and measures 2'x3'. I think I might make a bamboo frame for it out of some giant bamboo that the tree service recently provided for me. Anyone out there ever make a bamboo frame? I'd like advice if you have it, please.