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I chose this piece of work because it was from the Louvre and I am going to visit the Louvre this summer. This piece of work caught my eye when I saw it because I new that I as going to see the piece in real life. I liked how the piece flowed with the colors. I had a hard time drawing the hands and face. They were so hard to get the shape the right way. Then once I begin using oil pastels I had a hard time getting the colors right and not to dark or light. The face gave me the most difficult problem because there were so many details. In the end of my process I thought my piece of work was good. Even though it could have been a little better it turned out the way I wanted it too. I still need to work on the color of the face, so it actually looks like skin color. The kids in my class thought that my piece of work was good but I still needed to work on the face and some with the background.

There are a lot of themes I could have chose from. But I chose the theme, stereotypes in French and here because it gets me ready for going to Paris and Madrid. French people think that we are violent because we own guns and could shot anything we wanted. But us Americans think that the French are lazy, and rude because they don’t have manners. But I soon found out that we are the rude ones because we don’t usually greet people when they walk in a store. I really didn’t know where to begin on this project, so it took me awhile to figure out what I was going to do. I had to decide how I wanted my figures to be and why. The biggest problem I had with this project is getting motivated to work on it. At first I didn’t know how I was going to get done with this project by the end of the semester but I did. I think this piece is persuading because it tells what you can look for in French people if you are going to go to France one day and if you are from France you can see what Americans would be like when you got to America. I don’t think there is one thing that is not working in this piece. I like how the both flags have the same colors, so I didn’t have to figure out what colors the letters on the words had to be. If I had to do this project again I would have not slaked off at the start of it, so I didn’t have to hurry and get it done in time.



The social issue for this piece would be homeless people. The artist was thinking that most people don’t like if kids are out on their own when they are not being taking care of. So the artists decided to put a little kid in the piece so people would feel bad and want to find them a home or give money to the poor, so they can at least have food to eat.