Up For Auction

For this installment of "the contents of my art portfolio" circa 2006, I reveal my third most popular piece. This was one of my first masterpieces, and it most definitely caused a stir amongst my disturbingly eager art enthusiasts. Except of course when we had a live model one lesson, and I made her look like a robot having a mechanical malfunction. For this assignment, we were given "creative control" over what we wanted to produce, as long as it was an enlarged representation of a clipping from a magazine. Being incredibly low on resources and ambition, I vaguely remember madly flipping through a National Geographic magazine the night before my work was up for critique. I stumbled across an article about 'llama farming' and was quite interested in recreating the llama's, hoping it would show 'originality' and 'creativity', and of course to show I was up for the challenge of drawing this awkward creature, instead of something pedestrian, like a dog. However, the only thing that was awkward, was when I pinned this gem up on the wall of our art class, and taped the little original scrap of paper next to it. I remember fondly as my classmates eyes lit up as they gazed upon my beautiful creation. In contrast to the rage that filled my professors. Once again I had taken the 'cartoon approach' she so often told me to 'try to stray' from, and little did she know, I never would. When the class was asked which one they liked the best, I remember the majority selected mine. However this could potentially have been out of pity, but to be honest, it was a ray of light in comparison to the often depressing garble that the other students spent 2 weeks on. I remember giving my art teacher a "I own this classroom" smirk during this, which likely had a direct affect on my final grade.


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