The moose, with it's strange burden, charged into the lake

These are my newest paintings and you don't need to tell me, they are not sooo good. I don't know what's happening. I have lost my will to live and paint!

I had a meeting with my tutor about this new semester and showed him my new deer paintings (see a couple of posts ago) he didn't like them at all, he said they were too 'sentimental' (yes art tutors actually say those kinds of things, how a painting of a deer is sentimental god only knows.) So we had a discussion about bringing a new subject matter into the project. He came up with a lot of ideas, and then I went home and ignored them all or so it seems! He mentioned painting hunters, or buildings, or trees, or car crashes, or landscapes, but using my distinctive, fluid, watery, drippy, style to depict these new things.

I thought that these things might be pretty hard to convey in this style, especially something like buildings or landscapes, it would just be a black inky mess. I quite liked the idea of hunters though but I twisted it, and for some reason got 'cowboys and indians' into my head. So I went out to one of my little treasure trove shops and bought some old fashioned childrens books, for boys.

I got an ANCIENT old book called 'Rovers Book for Boys' and I loved that inside it says 'to stanley, from mum, 1932' but anyway enough of that. I also got a book called 'tales from long ago' or something which is basically bible stories for children, and a book about cowboys, also a book about horse riding but a really old one that has anatomical drawings of horses and other interesting things in, and I got 'the man in the iron mask'. (phew.)

So basically I've been working on a small scale on these drawings, still working in black drawing ink and some limited use of watercolours in the first sketch, and I've tried to pick quite weird and bizarre illustrations from the books like a man fighting with a giant crab for example? I like how odd the images are, but I cannot seem to adapt them to my own style of painting. Which is the whole point of the excercise!

I've drawn up a plan in my personal diary for this week, it's pretty extensive! I really need to get on it otherwise my degree show is going to end up a shambles! I am terrified.
Would really love some feedback/opinions on these drawings.

oh ps. I'm also working on another project at the moment that I can't show I don't think for reasons of copyright probably but it's quite exciting and I'm hoping so much it will lead somewhere in the end, but it's stressing me out so much to be working on it alongside the degree show. It could NOT be more different from this work! Just hope it's worth it.