Death's Garden by Sarah Bentvelzen
Sarah Bentvelzen

Death's Garden by

Felt-tip pen on A3 paper.

The new, alternate version is here

I did this for an art assessment in 2004. My teacher wasn’t very fond of it, even though it took me bloody forever to complete. You should have seen some of the crap works the other people handed in that got higher marks than me! Insane!
He didn’t like my whole collection I handed in… and from there things went downhill.
The teacher wasn’t teaching us everything he was supposed to that was in the syllabus, and a lot of his students got poor marks in the exams following, because we weren’t taught things that would be in the exams. Eventually I dropped art in year 12.
(This should really be in a journal… oh well)

This was created in early 2004.

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2004, a3, bentvelzen, death, felt, garden, paper, pen, sarah, tip

Comments

  • kookylane
    kookylanealmost 5 years ago

    well I like it!! you might want to clean it up a bit tho, i can see the paper edge there _

  • Sarah Bentvelzen
    Sarah Bentvelzenalmost 5 years ago

    Ahh! Thanks…
    i’ll get on to that when I can

    Love,
    Sarah

  • thickblackoutline
    thickblackoutlinealmost 5 years ago

    this is FANTASTIC! it really speaks to me, love all the lines. can see all the work you put into it!
    (that teacher shouldn’t be teaching, art is never wrong!)

  • thickblackoutline
    thickblackoutlinealmost 5 years ago

    me again….
    ahh! imagine something like this on a tshirt!

  • Sarah Bentvelzen
    Sarah Bentvelzenalmost 5 years ago

    Thank you! You’re very sweet to say that!

    At the moment I can’t add any image to shirts because my camera doesn’t have enough megapixels or something like that, so I cant get the image big enough. I don’t know how to get around that….

    Thanks again!

    Love,
    Sarah

  • Bridget a'Beckett
    Bridget a'Beckettalmost 5 years ago

    Yeah this is really great! Art is such a difficult thing to be taught, and definitely assessed. The same thing happened to me with a writing piece, I spent so long on one and wove all this hidden meaning into it – thought it was great and got completely cut down by my conservative teacher who just didn’t get it. Years later I read it again and am still very proud of it. Guess when you get older you realise teachers are just people with opinions that bear no more importance than your own. So don’t listen – keep drawing – you have an amazing talent.

  • Sarah Bentvelzen
    Sarah Bentvelzenalmost 5 years ago

    Thank you very much.

    Love,
    Sarah

  • westynimages
    westynimagesalmost 3 years ago

    I personally like this!!
    There is so much going on but there is a common theme that brings it all together.
    I enjoy complexity and variationa in a piece… just as I enjoy simplicity.
    EXCELLENT work!!

  • wow! thank you so much!

    – Sarah Bentvelzen

  • DAMcD
    DAMcDalmost 3 years ago

    Ah, so this is the centre of controversy! At the same age my journals were chocka with this stuff. I agree it probably lends well to textiles. Lovin your other abstracts too!

  • thanks

    – Sarah Bentvelzen

  • KarlJohnston
    KarlJohnstonover 2 years ago

    Beautiful work, I love these drawings.

  • thank you!

    – Sarah Bentvelzen