6Ben

Hey super sorry I forgot to show you the finished product basically the same but i have pictures of a hand pointing in different directions and I have captions for the government and people. I feel that the social issue that is being portrayed here is pollution. The factory in the background with the smog and the harsh looking person holding the nature scene all point towards the damage that pollution has on the environment. The picture I feel does job in getting its point across. The sand and harsh looking people in the background suggest that the person who drew this feels ver strongly about the issue at hand. I don't personally like the direct attempt, the artist could have taken a different rout in drawing this picture. The art work I feel is successful. The artist chose an issue and portrayed it perfectly in the drawing. The only improvement could be toning down how harsh the people look. I chose to do my social issue project on government control. I came to this decision because of my conservative view of how the American economy and daily life should go about. I feel that theshould keep its hand out of our economy as much as possible. There are laws that I feel should be left up to the people to decide and also things to do with inflation. My main point in my project is unneeded laws that are forced upon the American people. Our medium for this project was clay. The main goal was for us to expand our skills in the figurative art. Clay is a wonderful medium to work with because it offers so many options of how you would like to piece to play out and if a mistake is made it can be smoothed out and easily fixed. The thing that I struggled with the most was my time constraint and trying to get the pieces to stay together so I could get some uniformity in the mold. Due to golf I had a lot of trouble with this because I missed so much school. The clay would be dried up when I cam back and I didn’t have the time that I needed to get a quality piece. I feel that even though I didn’t get the quality that I could have this piece was a success because of what I learned in the process of creation. I learned that working with clay is much harder that I thought I would be. I am amazed how some people can create a masterpiece out of a chunk of clay in such little time.

I Came to the decision of the brick background because I felt that this would best fit the figure. I chose to go with the personally unfavored oil pastels because I felt that this would be the best medium to achieve the color blend for the brick. Some problems that I ran into were that I had trouble drawing the face because I had never drawn something like that on such a small scale. Also because the model didn't stay perfectly still there are some proportions that are out of of the normal range. I feel that I could have had a better product had I not used the oil pastels because they got out of range and they look messy. All in all ut was a successful drawing.


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I chose this picture because one of my favorite things to do is ride my bike. I feel that a challenge that I will come across is the clouds and the grass. I would like to do this in acrylics or temper paints because those paints are easier to layer. Some problems that I ran into on this project were color matching, blending, and position. I started the project with almost no experience with paint. I didn't know how to mix the colors properly or how colors would affect each other. At first I struggled with blending the colors on the paper but after a quick lesson I caught on quick. Finally I struggled with position because after I layed down a layer of paint I couldn't see my original drawing and i had to do some guess work. I am happy with the finished product. I feel that I executed the purpose of the exercise and I feel that this was a great learning experience. I could have improved in some areas but for my first painting project this is a success. I chose this picture because one of my favorite things to do is ride my bike. I feel that a challenge that I will come across is the clouds and the grass. I would like to do this in acrylics or temper paints because those paints are easier to layer .
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