This was the quick sort of exercise we did in class. We had to draw something kind of abstractedly from what we saw in front of us i.e. brett and my shoes. I tried to use sloping and very swoopy lines to show this free flowing if you will as i charcoiled it. I'd much prefer actually drawing my style with nice details but that wasn't allowed and we basically only had 3 minutes a sketch. Personally i didn't like this assignment since i did not like the outcome of any of my drawings but i still 

This painting took forever and in all honesty I hated every second of it. Why I took a picture of this and painted I can only blame on my need to be different from people who were just painting a flower. I tried to add and put a lot of layers of paint on my acrylic painting. I began with just the shapes and tried to get more and more detailed though i don't feel i did that good of a job most likely due to how I wasn't happy with it from the beginning. I will admit the best part though is probably the foliage in the back of the painting and the many variations and hues of greens I used along with a red to really make the leaves seem like they were coming out. The other thing I did well was the white clay behind it trying to show the blues and white milky laze to it instead of a boring paper like surface. It could have been much better but I never have been into planting plants anyway.