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I choose my theme because I am a really big hunter and would not want guns taken away from me. Another reason for making the choice of anti gun control is because people should be able to protect themselves from murders, thieves and so forth. With out guns there would be no hunting or anything of that nature that would kill me because it is a passion of mine. Even just the sport of target shooting would be taken away as well. Hunting was the main connection to this topic for me as well as the protection part of guns. There where many decisions I had to make to have this piece work. I thought how I love the sport of shooting so I shot the board many times to show that I wanted guns. I painted the background orange because it is the color of safety for guns. All of the different bullets where put on it because its shows what the topic is. A couple of the facts are just to persuade. The hardest part about this was to decide what to do with the background and the color I had to choose. Overall I think it did an ok job at making people think about the subject. It may not have totally changed minds but It may have made them think harder about gun control. I think what really worked with the piece was the bullets and also the quotes and statistics. I believe over all if I had a chance to change anything or do it again I would maybe make the background a bit more detailed. Over all I am happy with the project I did.

Artist Review Social Issue

I choose the picture of the guy smoking the cigarette. He is trying to show how smoking destroys yourself or the person that smokes and it also destroys the enviorment. You can see this because his body is falling apart when he has the smoke in his mouth. You can tell that the enviorment is being hurt because the sky looks so ugly and dark. He is showing that the air is polluted and is being destroyed. He really used many colors like black and white to show how bad the environment was. He did a great job of destroying the person and showing it because he only has half of a body. He could have used a few more colors but all in all he did a great job of illustrating this.