In this art piece, my goal was to create a Peggy Kroll styled oil painting. I accomplished my goal by minimizing the amount of strokes I painted in one area. I was very surprised how hard it was to stop repainting one area of the painting after I had "messed up". There were so many times that I went back to fix certain parts of the painting, but I found that the more you work on one part of the canvas the potential for the painting to get worse increases. The best way to avoid this was to stop repainting an area, instead leave it to one stroke and done. I believe that I experienced the switch to right brain thinking when I stopped looking at my artwork as an object and instead as shapes. I feel like the shadows in my drawing really work. Through this art piece, I learned how to create a realistic object with shapes not lines. If I had a do-over, I would repaint the background, I feel that the colors need more contrast. I feel that the best thing about my drawing is the front binder clip. I like the contrast between the two sides of shadow.
