Bridgewater Artist Lightens Piece to Escape Elimination

She took the mentor's advice this week, and former Bridgewater resident Michelle Matson escaped elimination once more as a contestant on Bravo's "Work of Art: Next Great Artist."

This week's challenge had artists meeting children from a local school and creating pieces of art that complement work already made by the students. The winner would have the piece auctioned off, with the proceeds going to help a school art program, while also receiving immunity in the next challenge.

Matson was working this week with a young boy who had a piece about eyes. She in turn started out on a project that other contestants felt was too dark for something a child would have come up with.

At first, Maston disagreed, and continued her piece about geese who have been in a fight or been pecking at each other, causing their eyes to be missing, and blood to be running down their bodies from the sockets.

Well, apparently the artists' mentor agreed that it was too dark, and he recommended Matson aim more for simplicity, like the student she was working with had done.

Eventually Matson agreed.

"The last challenge, I didn't listen to him and almost got eliminated," she said. "I don't want to make the same mistake again."

Matson eliminated the violent aspect from her piece, creating underground creatures that are all about eyeballs and other features. And she escaped both elimination and any kind of critique, and will be around for another week.

The show airs every Wednesday at 9 p.m. on Bravo.

What did you think of Matson's original and changed pieces? What do you think of her chances in the competition?