19-Sharon1

Sharon Osbourne

19-Sharon1
©2010 Craig Ashby
Mixed media on masonite.
7″ x 7″

Here is the first image of Sharon Osbourne in a set of three. This particular piece being my favorite of the set.

So let me start out with the positive. The solid nature of the black layer leaves a good impression. It’s playfulness with the red layer on is coincidence. I am not engineering the layers enough for me to make that happen, it just did. That right there is another huge key to this series. Riding the synchronicity, like waves. I also love that bottom monarch butterfly. The green advertisement poorly placed. It’s all off and perfect in its offness.

But here is another set I feel isn’t as great as the ideas that created it. I love the twinning of Sharon. Mirrored like symmetry of the monarch butterfly. And then it just falls apart. It’s like I lost my internal editor.

I remember cutting these and really struggling and I think it shows. I’ve said it before, I don’t mind showing my failures. I do every single day. I just will get up and make some more failures to pile on top. And hopefully some successes that will balance out the equation.

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  1. Laura Farrow

    22 Jul 2012

    I get that inner critic… I do it too… we all do it, probably! Marrying the concept, the execution, and all the decisions made along the way to the finished piece is a tall order, no? I can see what you are saying once you point it out, but wouldn’t otherwise…

    1. Craig Ashby

      22 Jul 2012

      Tall orders abound! And we all have that inner critic.

      I’m just trying to get back in touch with the success and failure of these pieces from a couple of years ago. And in the traditional blogging sense, I am oversharing about how I feel.

      I have said it so many times in reposting these, the biggest success is that I did anything at all. So this piece, and all my perceived failure of it, is a huge success. I actually did something. Good or bad.

      1. Laura

        23 Jul 2012

        Right on.

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