In general my Tutor was satisfied with my work for part Three of the PAD course. The action points were the following:

• Continue to develop the Parallel Project (PP) and connect it with my Critical Writing piece (CW) I must submit by the end of the course. In part Four, I devoted more time to working on my PP and followed Tutor’s advice to connect the PP and CW. His advice made me take a different direction for my PP, so I opened a separate page, leaving the first drafts I submitted to my Tutor in part Three. To submit more developing sketches and reflections on how the outcome matches my expectations. I worked more on developing sketches for the exercises and PP and included more of my thinking. Though, I must say that not all my works “ask” me to create different sketches for a particular project. Sometimes I really go with the flow: I start and don’t know where I will end up. This approach is also fair and aligns with previous instructions for other courses I did. I prefer this approach because creativity is very much about exploration. However, I understand that a complex compositional and detailed project requires many preliminary sketches. We talked about my attempt in Part Three to work in the style of Joy Garrard. Here is my Tutor’s feedback quote: “What is similar, and what is different? It doesn’t matter if you feel you are behind her; even if you are hard on yourself, this reflection is essential – critical analysis. The final thing you do in your blog post – you take this step back and review it in writing. For example, her viewpoint is much higher than yours in most of her works. Talk about why it is so. How changing your viewpoint affects the viewer depending on where you put the viewer. Think about similarities and differences. Where do you want your viewer to be?“. I added my reflection to the relevant blog post and marked it in blue. Here is the link:https://zhan-art.com/2023/02/25/drawing-two-project-2-landscape/
• My Tutor asked me to think about the “viewpoints” again for my last assignment in part Three: “Think about viewpoints – where you want ‘us’ to be in relation to the images you create.” I added my reflection on the relevant blog post and marked it in blue, you need to scroll down the blog post text. Here is the link:https://zhan-art.com/2023/03/27/drawing-two-part-three-assignment-three-time-and-memory/(opens in a new tab)

After reflecting on his questions about the viewpoint, I understood that the viewpoint is a great tool that should not be neglected in constructing a whole composition of the painting. The viewpoint channels the emotion.