great day in core

so this happened a week before thanks giving at saic but its noteworthy so shut the fuck up. We had and assignment in core studio to do an abstract painting based on another piece we did the week before. the assignment was to bring in a prepared surface and use the first piece as a compositional jumping off point to do an acrylic painting and use the canvas as the palette too no mixing not on the surface. so i brought in these two canvases so that i could do a dipdic. after setting them up on the easel and started squeeze out some paint in initial positions and moving it around, it wasn't more than four minutes after i started that my teacher pete came over and just immediately said ok good stop, good start don't look at the original piece any more, stop, im taking it away, you just resolve what you have there and make that painting its self now. its something totally else now and you aren't aloud to look at the other thing any more. i just kind of laughed to my self some but understood and said fine. i put more paint on and am really getting into moving and scraping it around the surface, squeezing out more paint if the colors get too muddy and pulling it all around having a great time. pete comes over a few other times and just gives me the some old art teacher deal of not saying anything so that i can just figure it out for my self and i mostly get nods as he walks by same deal with the t.a. the mostly just stays away. then at some point pete come over and looks at it really hard and puts his hand up on his face all contemplative like and says "ok, the first thing that i get is trickster, ok...here....um...let me ask you something: do you mean it?...do you mean it?...all of this here?" and i look at the painting and there are heavy globs dripping down it and big juicy lumps all over and i kind of get what he is talking about but he is sounding a little crazy. "yeah i mean it, i don't think i have the capacity to do an insincere painting, i mean it, im not trying to play a joke on you." he says ok and goes into this who explanation on how there was some movement in the nineties of people who were just playing around with paint, seeing what the y could do with it and why it was bad, that it is not really good art and how this started to resemble that when he first saw it. then he says ok... its like there are maybe twenty good paintings here but you cant do that, its like i just want to see one or two great moment that you feel you must show me and concentrate on those. so i think you should destroy this painting and recreate something more focused, just keep going though and you don't really have to destroy all of it, just do what ever.. i mean... just keep painting.. don't let me discourage you. so i start to pull the paint down and cover things up and reveal things underneath and start to get into that again, im right back in the painting and i fell the same way i did before but am keeping in mind what pete said. then some time goes by and pete is back. "stop.. ok.. wow, this is a kick ass painting but im starting to read the line in the middle as something else, oh wait, here let me see. pete takes down one of the canvases and hangs it on a blank wall. and we look at it with space around it. "ok you need to keep these two paintings in separate countries if you were ever to show them, i mean different sides of the planet, they are so strong but no one can ever see them at the same time, its not a bad thing, they just need space". so he take one away and says that i should stop working on it and i go to work on the other one so that they don't look quite alike. i put it horizontally and start to change the color, giving this one more real color and work with that and some splatter and covering that. then im pretty satisfied and im putting two final light green splatters on it as pete is walking over and he kind of gives me this look that he explained later as thinking like what the hell does he think he is doing putting splatter on that painting. then he comes to my side of the easel and is like oh, nice i did not think you could pull that off. in the crit a week later he said that he was just baffled at how i was able to get away with a splatter in his class and two none the less that he had no faith in me as i was flicking the brush but then saw ans kind of had to eat his own words. great day, thanks pete