5Sophia

=Sophia Environmental Figures=


 * **// I can create a successful work of art by //****// organizing my thoughts and ideas. //** ||
 * || **// I can exhibit, present and publish quality works of art. //** ||

Sophia Pre-Drawing Picture I find this piece beautiful and very relaxing. I think the background will be the most difficult, and getting the fabric feel of her dress. I am very excited and ready to start this process. I am going to make it with pastels and a little bit paint.

I chose this piece because I thought it looked very elegant and sophisticated. I did think the background would prove hard and the hair. I also thought it looked like me.

I really struggled with her hair I couldn't get the hairy look without messing it up. But I think I finally got it to look nice, I might go in and fix it more later. I also struggled trying to figure out what to do with the background, but I settled on doing it with oil pastels and i think it looks nice. I do this this is a nice piece and i am very proud of her dress! I might have to go back in and fix her hair but other than that I am very proud of myself. I would like to do this process again! I really did enjoy it!

I did this project because I wanted to stand out from everyone else. I didn't want to to a beautiful girl in a pretty dress, I wanted to do something I really liked. Batman was always my favorite super hero so I thought it would be amazing to do a project on him. There was a lot of problems on this project, I was going to use the other side of the window but it was covered in paint. Batman was hard to draw and figure out how to color him. Plus someone did step on it and mess up some of my people but I figured it out in the end. I am happy with this project, I think it looks really cool and all my ideas came together.



Painting Idea= This painting is about the dying cultures and the harmful effect of technology. This is not a happy painting, it is about suffering and changing times. I think it is about how technology is killing all the different countries’ cultures. Frist of all I think the telephone with the destroyed world and George Washington’s head is a good clue of what’s happing in the painting. May be it means that technology is trapping our cultures. Now with all this new technology we don’t pay as much attention to our traditions and cultures. The lion is another big clue to my theory. He represents a country, may be Africa, that is starving. To prove this you can see the starving faces in his belly. The last clue is the bull, with some sort of spears through him. I think he is the idea of a culture ad something, in this chase technology, is killing him. This painting is trying to say that our cultures are falling one by one. I honestly don’t like this painting, it is too confusing for me. I think it should be a little more clear so people can know what’s going on. People aren’t going to look at it if they have to stare at it forever to know what’s going on.



Social Project Writing= I made this project to help girls feel ok with their bodies. I was tired of girls starving themselves and thinking they have to be skinny to be beautiful. We are all different and pretty in our own ways. TV, magazines and the Internet make it seem that all girls have to be skinny, with prefect bodies, faces and skin. But no one is perfect and we are all special. Adele is s singer, but she is made fun of for her weight. That’s why I picked her as a role model for this project, she is okay with the way she is and isn’t going to change. This project was one of the hardest projects yet, everything I tried seemed to backfire. At first I just put paper on a cardboard surface, but I didn’t like the way it turned out so tried to take it off. It came off in sections and all of it didn’t come off, so I painted white over it. Plus when I was trying to modge podge stuff on to my project I used white paint on accident. I went with it and it made it have a layered look. But it all worked out in the end and it looked like I meant to do it. I am pretty proud of this project, I feel like I get my point across. It’s a work of art to me, because people can see why I made this project and understand what I was trying to do. If I could do this again I would ask for more time for sure. I would also make the stand for my figure better, plus I would want to make the background a different color. All in All I think this was a successful piece of art.