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Well when I was thinking about what I wanted to do for my social issue I was looking for one that I could find a lot of info on it and one that no one has really done before. So I did a search on Google to see a list of all the different social issues. Then I figures out all of the ones that I wanted to do and marked off the ones that people had already picked. My personal connection to war on drugs is really nothing I just cant stand people that do drugs all the time and think that it is cool to do them. Well when I picked the social issue war on drugs I started out by reading a few different articles on it. This way I could get a little bit better understanding on what was going on with the war on drugs. After that I planned out on what I wanted my poster background to look like. So I found the pictures and the facts and printed then off. After that I glued them on and painted the things that needed to be painted. Some problems that I had was figuring out what I wanted to do for the background. I think that my piece is a very successful piece. I say this because you can see what my social issue is and how I stand on it. I think the thing that is not working is I need more space so I can put a few more pictures on it. If I had a chance to do this project again I would because it is fun. And they only thing I would change is the topic I would do because I would want to learn some more about a different social issue.

I picked the second picture out of the five pictures that I have to pick from. The social issue that is shown here is the poor and homeless. I can tell because the boy is in old clothes and looks dirty. I can tell that the artist is trying to get this point across because he shows a boy in old clothes sitting on a box with a dog. The background looks like it could be a little shelter that he tried to build and it is built out of scrap pieces of wood and metal.



I chose to do this because it is something that I am interested in. I think that this is a successful piece of art work. I do like this piece of art work because it is about something that I like.


 * ART.VA.II.HS.1 || **// I can create and modify artwork through the critique process. //** ||


 * ART.VA.II.HS.5 || **// I can reflect on the process that led me to my final, successful piece. //** ||

I like this painting because it has to do with the outdoors. The things that I think I will have problems with is getting the same colors as the painting and getting it to look the same. I think I will use oil pastel or paint for the medium. The painting on top is the painting that I tried to copy. As you can see it did not turn out that well. I wish I could have got the colors a little bit closer to what it really was. I also figured out that I should not wait until the last minute to work on my art project. So them were my problems and I solved them by learning that I really need to get a head start on my projects so that I don't have to rush to get them done. Overall i am not happy with this painting because it looks like crap.