Critique Concepts to Consider
by Carol B. Mitchell
- What was your concept?
- What drew you to this scene?
- Did you stay faithful to you original concept?
- How did you choose your center of interest and how did you work it into the painting?
- Did you handle the transitions in the painting successful such as dark to light with drama or in a subtle way?
- Do you feel you were successful?
- What are you personally working on in your painting?
- How successful is the color palette, composition, brushwork, amount of paint, accuracy of drawing, value scale?
- *(Examples: a concept can be where shapes come together to form an exciting composition, or a color scheme all warms, all cool colors, all secondary colors or complementary colors, or interesting patterns of light and dark…)
- (*Based on Mitchell Albala’s “Landscape Painting, Essential Concepts for Plein Air Techniques and Studio Practice”
