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Connection- I chose a social issue that is very important to me. I think that knowledge and education should be for everybody and that it should be free. The reasons are many, first we need to take care of our environment but to do so we need to know about it and what harms it. Secondary people need education to know how to survive, that is: how to grow foods, how to make shelter, what is good and bad for you etc. The most accurate reason though is to give poor countries a better life standard. To send U countries’ children to school is the best chance for them to have a great turn in their economy. An educated population can get good jobs and change things. And we need to set a stop to child labor!

It was a bit hard for me to make this picture because I did not know how to make my point clear. I decided to keep it simple and make a painting with bright colors and two halves with a picture on each side. On the right side I have a boy working in a factory facing backwords to show how he is not developing. On the left I have a girl sitting in a classroom facing ahead to show how she is going forward into the future.

I wish I had more time because I think I could have done much more with my social issue but I am happy with what I made. It might not be very easy to figure out what I try to say wit the painting but that is also what I wanted. I want people to stay and think for a while so that it sinks in before. I am happy with the colors even though I did not follow my own instructions.

I am making a picture about Peoples right to free education. I am splitting it in two halves and will make it two kids facing each other in different lives. One of them under child labour sowing shoes, one of them in a classroom. One half is going to be red and blue and the other is going to be green and yellow. All of it will be under the title "EVERYONE should have a right to free education"

Tape people figures: I am going to make a figure of a Ice skater. I wil place it either on the

Sealing or on the floor in the library. If we have some nice snow this winter, I might put it

Outdoors. I am going to make part by part and then place everything together as I like it. I will

have to get some ice skates so that I can wrap those to. What I will use for the fabric I will figure

out later.





Full figure drawing project:


 * 1) In the beginning I usually did the head of a realistic sized person bigger than it is supposed to be. Often I made the body six times the leingth of the head when it is supposed to be 7 or 8. First when I tried to make the head smaller it was hard to make the body in the right proportions but after a couple of drawings it got easyer and easier.
 * 2) I have notised that there is a lot of decisions that I make when I draw. Almoast always I have to think twice before I do something because what I want to do usually wants to take over and not what would be correct to do. That coveres the size of the head to. I want to make it bigger but I have to think twice so that it will be right.
 * 3) At first I had trouble with the time. To make it right is easy when I have a lot of time but when it is a time limit it makes me think extra. Then when I was used to have a short time limit I could not get use to having a lot of time and finished before I was supposed to. But after trying a few times I got used to that to, but then I knew how to draw both fast and thoroughly.
 * 4) Yes, I am pleased with the final product. I thought I got pretty much everything on my figure drawings the right size, at least what mattered. I am a bit sad that I did not make more figures to have in my little Paris street but at least I am happy with what managed in the time we had.


 * Among Gnomes and Trolls **


 * This is the original piece:[[image:bauer02.jpg width="800" height="862"]] **

I chose this piece by the Swedish, famous artist John Bauer because this is one of my favorite artist. He based his paintings of gnomes and trolls on rocks and trees he found in the mountains of Scandinavia. There is a real feeling of woods and you can se the natural shapes meanwhile you see the made up (or what do I know?) characters.

This piece, among the most of Bauer’s other pieces, is connected to a short story from a fairytale gathering longer book. The book is called “Among Gnomes and Trolls” or as in Swedish “Bland Tomtar och Troll” I could not find the story but the name of the painting is “Trolls and princess Tjuvstarr” I also found a short sentence from a part of the story when this picture is in it: “// Titta på dem, sade trollmor. Titta på mina söner! Vackrare troll finns inte på denna sidan månen.” // Which meens “Look at them, mother troll said. Look at my sons! More beautiful trolls can not be found on this side of the moon.”

I did have a few problems with the painting when I got to the light parts. The hard thing about water colors is that it is impossible to erase what you just did. The hardest things was the light around the princess and the dark parts with small shade shiftings. But the solution was to work a little bit more on those places and take time to make light and dark layers. I am proud of this piece but I feel I missed a lot of details that would take to much time to finish. I have a bit harder to like drawings or paintings I copy from other pieces of art which already exist. I like it though but the next time I will probably not make a watercolor panting this big if I don’t have really good Aquarelle paper because that melts together easier.


 * This is my piece:**