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Another speepainting. Related to this one. Ignore the split face - I originally painted her whole face, but then I decided I wanted to try to make her faceless. I'll pick a side, eventually, but rest assured if I go with the faceless idea it won't look like it's melting. Like it does now. 
The whole project is about illustrating a subject and its opposite/hidden side/other face. I picked a very basic and familiar theme: Nature as creator and loving mother... and Nature as a destructive force. 
My general goal is to create something visually interesting, effective and original even with an unoriginal theme.
Other stuff I have in mind:
- deciding between the faceless half of her head and her more human one. It depends: am I going for something malevolent and furious (human feelings) or rather something without a human "soul", a faceless, nameless force that crushes everything? The human-like face is more relatable and expressive, but is destructive Nature actually "angry"? I like expressivity, but perhaps the faceless woman is closer to my perception of destructive Nature.
- making the focus of the paintings (face and tree) polished and well rendered and then progressively make everything else more painterly and rough, even abstract. 
- implementing basic geometric shapes in the more abstract areas - round shapes for the more serene portrait, pointy edges for this one.

I'm very stressed out and tired because of school stuff, my English is probably kind of broken today. I appreciate any kind of feedback :)

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I agree with the faceless idea because I think it would really strike the viewer with how nature acts as a destroyer
It has no soul no care about who gets hurt 

Your nature art pieces are amazing!!!! :D