Final Crit

Just got back from my final crit and I think it went really great.  I super super Super SUPER appreciate the Bruce High Quality guy being there!  It's funny because on my way to school this morning I was thinking how it was kind of unfair that Crit Group A got a guest to come and look at there stuff but Group B didn't and then BAM!  It was cool :)  I am excited about my project idea, however at the same time I feel like my point of it being a portrait won't come across, instead it will just come across "non-arty", so that is a concern.  I don't know how concerned I should feel about that though only because it's my work, I'm making it for me and not for anyone else.  The aspect of privacy in it is a huge challenge to myself, since I am a very private person, but I don't want to sit in a box, I want to push my work to possible uncomfortable areas, I shouldn't feel like I need to ignore certain characteristics of myself and my life in this project in order to paint a more controlled image.  The point of this project is to not control anything, especially the image.  I picked my relationship as the subject matter for this project because I can't control its image, I can't always make it look good and not allowing my boyfriend to know that he is part of this project gives it that natural habitat that I'm looking for.