So today was the Monet Workshop at the Macaulay Center and I was told to take a part in it.

What we did, in a nutshell, was to get back together with our groups when we were at the Brooklyn Museum and make a video with the audio file and pictures that we acquired.

What my group did was to split the work. Three of us would work on the slides and pictures and set them up beforehand while the other three would work on the audio file. I was working on the audio file as I did not have high quality pictures to use.

My experience today was stressful. On the day of recording, I thought that my group recorded everything flawlessly. Now when I was editing the audio, I realized that certain ideas and thoughts about the painting were unfinished. All of those issues made me edit the audio for about an hour, which was obviously not fun.

When the video was finished and played back, I recognized how one should analyze artwork more often. This is because in the video, there were many assumptions about John Singer Sargent’s An Out of Doors Study. For example, there was an assumption that the line behind the man was a fishing pole. Later in the video one person stated that the line may just be an umbrella instead.
Although today was somewhat stressful for me, all in all, it was fun.