Mercedes

\ I chose this piece of art because I really wanted to paint a picture of a child. I looked at many other pieces but I did not seem to connect with them. i thought this picture was a wonder choice because of what it shows when you look at it. When I was looking for my picture I wanted something that was warm in color and someone at the beach. This picture is a girl at the beach having a wonder time. the colors all looked very well together. I also really liked the shape of the figure. It is very fine and shows many different details of her body. After I chose my piece I started on the drawing. Drawing this figure was not a problem, it was the outline of the hair. When I chose the picture I did not pay much attention to the complex shapes and colors of the hair. I decided that I would not draw the shapes of the hair but I would simply just paint them on, with the oils. Then I ran into another problem. I was not doing a very good job with the oils. So I switched to paint. The paint was much easier for me. It was easier to blend the colors and get the fine shapes with the colors. Not drawing the fine shapes of the complex hair gave me a big problem. I could not get the right colors, witch put the contrast of the colors off. Then I had to make a decision, should I do the hair my own way, or try and get it as close to the picture I chose. I decided that I was going to try and get the hair as close as possible. As you can see, this is what i was able to do with the hair. It was the biggest problem I had with the picture. Critique. Overall I was happy with the way the picture turned out. If I had to do this project again, I think I would chose a different picture. I really did not like the way the hair turned out. I wish it would of had more of a " hair feeling " to it. I also did not like the way the back round turned out. I feel as if the colors could have blended better. I originally was going to do my project on animal cruelty, then i changed my mind because so many people in my class had already chosen many topics involving animal cruelty, therefore i chose a different approach. My topic then turned into Animal Testing. The reason i chose animal testing is because if you really think about it all the cosmetics in the world, do we really need to continue testing on these animals for another hairspray or wrinkle cream? I had one major problem in my experience though out this project. My problem was trying to fit my figure into the project. I use many dark colors expressing the horrible side of animal testing. I decided to place my figure walking towards the other half of my window into the terrible words that have the truth about animal testing. I also had to make a hard decision on what colors i was going to use. Once i had steady colors my project was soon completed. I believe that my piece does show people the reality of what is really behind the simple everyday products they use. Am i saying people will stop using products, No. People will continue to use these products. I think people will consider that many animal are living in fear all to make you wrinkle free or your hair in place. I believe that if more people are aware of this problem, that maybe the testing on animal will stop. Great things have been developed though animal testing such as chemo therapies. I did not like my figure because i used dark colors and once my figure was glazed it was very bright. Therefore i decided to hide my figure behind the products. My figure is in green scrubs and a white lad coat. The white lab coat blends into the back round of my window witch makes it work better for me. I would still like to have my figure not in my display. If i had a chance to change my project i would change the colors that i painted my figure. I would also make my figure more dominate to stand up to the window. My back round is very large compared to my figure. The figure was the main project. Therefore i would redo my figure.

I believe the artist is expressing poverty and homeless children. The reason i believe this is because there is a very skinny stray dog, there is also many card bored elements and other things homeless people would keep. The artist could be expressing this issue because of the danger it puts children in. I think that this is a hard painting to look at because it is very realistic.