Jessica Rogen

I started out by focusing on a the painting "Judith beheading Holofernes" by Artemisia Gentileschi. At first I confused the assignment and was thinking conceptually rather than formally. I realized this but couldn't quite stop myself. I tried to think formally and decided that the formal attribute that intersted me abut the painting was the contrast built into it and in my gathering assignment I tried to focus on that. However, once I was in class and actually drawing (and with the helpfull comments of my fellow students) I realized that it was more about the overall form of the three figures in the painting. I connected this with some of the photographs that I had taken in the gathering assignment and worked on combining the two. As I drew I started using some of the same combination of in wash with line work that I had been working on in the previous weeks. In my meeting with Jana she pointed out some other connections with my previous drawings--I had used the same basic form in the drawing of my home. Fancy that.