While as individual critiques people offered supportive feedback, when grouped together everyone's opinions clash. Many people offered critical feedback which focused on little things which could be changed in my piece, such as the jarring background, redrawn stem and "mushiness" of the flower. Yet in a broader sense, I received a lot of conflicting feedback. About half of the critiques told me the juxtaposition of styles worked well and that the painting would not be successful without it; the other half thought the two canvases was jarring and lacked unity. In a sense of my ongoing theme, many told me to continue with multimedia and the texture of paint while others discouraged this continuation of 3-D elements and heavy paint because they said it was distracting. However, one theme in the criticism was that I should again revert back to more personal objects of my childhood instead of doing a singular flower which is harder to read. Thankfully, I had planned to do a more personal theme in this next painting already, so I resolved the issue without having to change direction. Another thing I thought was interesting from the critique was that some people took my theme to be a very natural one, perhaps even with a "garden theme". In fact I hadn't even noticed this was the case, but after it was said it makes sense. My next piece however will break this up because it is indoors and will play very much on light and space in floorboards and walls.
