AmandaP

I chose the figure because I wonted to have something hard to draw then easy. I know when I chose the pice that it would be hard, with all the details, the lights and darks, and color. When i was looking for a pice I saw a lot of easy pieces, but don't that many hard pieces. First I was going to do a piece of dancers, when I was looking for it I fond a piece of Romeo and Juliet.  The most part that I had tribal with was with Juliet. I made the dress to yellow. I had to use a lot of white. The next part that i had the most tribal is her face, and hair. I was using oil pastels, and I had to use paint. for her face, and some of her hair too.  Successful, to me because I like drawing people. And I wont to find something that would take me long to work with then other pieces.

I chose this subject because my mom and grandma has it. It effects everyone differently. It effects more woman than men. It happens between the ages of 28 - 45.

I didn't have any problems with this subject. With Multiple Sclerosis their is no cure for it. People just learn to deal with what stage of MS they have. When my grandmother got MS their was no medicine for it to slow down the progression. With my mom she is taking medicine, that is slowing her stages of her MS. With my grandmother hers just has been in recession. That is how mom my has handled her problems with having a chronic illness that has no cure.

It is good but it is not that persuadive. There was not enough facts or information in my painting. I just had a few facts of MS. There is just way too many to list on a painting. I had a few that people could get. Everyone that get MS has different systems so it is hard to say everything.

I would do two or three people with different stages of MS not just of the walking or bedridden.

The statement being portrayed is smoking. It is bad for the environment, for the people around you and you yourself. For the people around you the second hand smoke. Yourself is causes cancer. Many bars and eating establishments are smoke free, they don't let people smoke in their place of business. Businesses and places of work now have a smoke free of 50 yards from the entrance of the place of business. So people can't smoke when clients or customers enter they establishment.

The artistic elements they used was the dark people laying around on the ground the back of the ribs and the back of the neck around just bones. That will happen to people when they start and continue to smoke for years. The artist had a black/dead tree in the background showing that smoking will cause death. The darkness in the background also portrays death and bleakness of smoking. There is nothing about this artists statement that has any joy or happiness in the picture.