What is your adopted art student's concentration? How are they developing their concentration? Critique whether the works - compositionally, artisitically, and technically (like our last critique).
Based on what I have seen on Adam's blog, his concentration idea is that of portraying emotional exhaustion, using oil paints with other various mediums. He has 4 concentration pieces so far, and already I can see a wide range of concepts and risks taken. They all have in common facial and body expressions, but it's interesting because as he progresses, he shows more bodies and less faces. They are becoming more complex, more colorful, and also more expressive. Compositionally, three of the four are layed out the same way, but this potential issue (that I have as well) is alleviated with the fourth piece. Compositionally they could use the most work. Artistically, throughout all of his pieces (with the exception of his stencil works) actually, he shows a very defined voice, as in you can tell that they are his pieces. As a concentration though, there is a little bit of disconnect because two of the pieces are done in an expressive portrait style and the other two and full body nudes. He is missing a little bit of connection. Technically, Adam is a very strong artistic, although he could work on his encaustic techniques and on some of his color relationships.
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