Mrs. Jan Federick's 'Over The Love'

My art teacher Mrs. Jan Federick really pushed me to finish a painting I was working on in high school that I brushed off to the side to deal with other priorities. A total of two years working on one painting titled “Over the Love”, and I finished it just four days before the state fair art exhibition where I received third place in the portraits category, which I gladly took seeing the other two painting which one first and second place. My idea for the painting came from two works, The Great Gatsby (which we read for 12th Grade literate) and the song “Over the Love” by Florence+The Machine from The Great Gatsby (2013) Motion Picture soundtrack. The woman, drunk, crying, and singing in despair about her torn yellow dress on the piano after …show more content…
If this one painting didn’t teach me and prepare for animation and story writing, I’m not sure what will. When I talk to people about the painting, they are amazed that I picked a small, overlooked part in a story and make something great out of it, and to keep going with it. I have about twenty movie concepts, four movie shorts, and nine storylines all based from details. I have never been more proud of myself for finishing anything, and I’m unsure if I will ever be able to sell it to anyone. I just know that you can learn so much about someone just by small details, and I want to tell people that the little things do matter, big as the Roman numerals on Queen Elizabeth Tower, or as small as this twelve point, double spaced, Palatino style