Expressive Drawing assignment

I was in an Expressive Drawing class this morning, and had finished a midterm piece to turn in. After that, all I did was flip through magazines to find inspiration for the next assignment: draw/paint something that I feel is the ugliest object/theme but people still view it as art. I could imitate an art style that a classmate has that I don't like at all.

Well, I was dumbfounded...

Now,I do not want to be rude to anyone in the class since some of their styles I don't feel anything that clicks in me when I see their work, most of my classmates have nothing that directs all my attention in a second. Since I do not want to offend them, I chose not to go toward that direction.

So what was left was I could explore with a media that I have no time to mess with since the experiment could end up being very, very ugly. Normally, that means I would make a complete mess. But, this time around, making a mess and ruining something, is what is encouraged. So, why not start with watercolor paint? And that's what I did.

Turns out my neighbors thought it was too pretty to ruin it. (I'll take a picture of it later and upload it for people to see). They said it was "abstract", "could be anything", "looks like sea weed/jelly fish/mysterious smoke". Some even said if I really want to make it ugly as possible, just dump whatever paint or charcoal or other medium on it, and that sure will be ugly.

As the discussion died down, they all said "Don't ruin it, save this piece for another assignment".

Hmmmm, no wonder art is hard to judge. It can be interpreted in many possible ways....

























Now, if it's viewed upside down, it looks like something else..........