Reflection

I believe I captured the themes of the work accurately. Sam Francis was known for capturing his personal themes in his artwork, which is exactly what I attempted to do. Additionally, the work is titled Falling Star which might refer to the order and disorder in the piece itself. I captured this order and disorder in my piece as well; only, I turned up the contrast between the two using my own color scheme instead of the one used by Sam Francis. While working, I realized that I could not possibly plan it all out before I started. If I tried to deliberate about every single mark and every single stroke, I would never have finished this project. I learned that some of the process needed to simply be instinctive instead of calculated or forced. If I was to redo this, I would probably spend even less time deliberating and start almost immediately in order for the piece to be more natural and intuitive. This quality would be easier to capture if I was working on a physical canvas rather than on Photoshop.